She is a professor and researcher at the Universidad Juárez Autónoma de Tabasco.
[1] Álvarez was an undergraduate at UAM Azcapotzalco, where she earned a degree in chemical engineering.
[1][2] Initially she worked on nanomedicine, in the team of Tessy María López Goerne at the National Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgery in Tlalpan.
[3] She has held her present position at the Universidad Juárez Autónoma de Tabasco since 2013,[4][2] and has participated there in research on the use of silica nanoparticles in the extraction of petroleum.
[5] Álvarez is a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences[6] and Academia de Catálisis.