From 2010 to 2018 Alonso-Rasgado was the Honorary Representative of the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología, the National Council of Science and Technology of Mexico.
[11][12] She ran a series of activities that brought together academics, scientists, students and centre directors from Mexico and the United Kingdom.
[15][16] At the time, Alonso-Rasgado was a professor at the University of Manchester, which had the highest number of Mexican postgraduate students in the world.
[15][17][18] She developed scholarship schemes in collaboration with the Organization of American States to support scientists and engineers starting their PhD programmes in the United Kingdom.
[22][23] Since joining Queen Mary University of London, Alonso-Rasgado has created, developed, managed, and delivered a Sandpit Initiative in Mexico to develop joint, multidisciplinary, matched-funding research projects between Mexican institutions and QMUL academics in areas including air pollution[24] & cancer diagnosis.
[26] The following year, she created a Dual Master by research (MRes) with the Autonomous University of Baja California (UABC), one of the aims of which is to help address gender inequality in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) by targeting female students.