ANA MICAELA ALTERIO. PhD in Advanced Studies in Human Rights by Carlos III de Madrid University. Her thesis: ‘‘A democratic critique to neo-constitutionalism and its political and institutional implications” granted her the extraordinary doctorate award. She got her lawyer degree in the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo in Mendoza, Argentina. In the same province she was the Human Rights Coordinator until 2007, when she got the MAEC-AECI scholarship and went to Spain for her postgraduate studies.

In Madrid, she got a diploma on political and constitutional studies from the Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales de Madrid, and a Master’s degree in Advanced Studies in Human Rights by Carlos III de Madrid University, in which she was granted the extraordinary award too.

She has made research stays in the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, Germany, and in Columbia University in New York. Currently she is a candidate for the National System of Researchers; a subsidiary of CONACYT.

She has several publications in academic journals, book chapters and she has coordinated with Roberto Niembro Ortega the books Constitucionalismo Popular en Latinoamérica (Porrúa, 2014) and La Suprema Corte y el matrimonio igualitario en México (IIJ-UNAM 2017).