UP Campus: Aguascalientes

He earned his Bachelor of Laws degree from the Universidad Panamericana.
He holds a Doctor of Laws degree from the Complutense University of Madrid.
He has delivered numerous lectures on industrial and intellectual property at the national and international levels.
He is an arbitrator authorized by the National Copyright Institute to resolve disputes.
Professor in the Master’s programs in Industrial and Intellectual Property at the Panamericana University (Mexico), Austral University (Argentina), Carlos Tercero University (Spain), and the University of the Andes (Colombia).
He has written numerous articles on Industrial and Intellectual Property for various legal journals. Author of seven books on industrial and intellectual property; the most recent is *Industrial Property Law in Mexico* (2022).
He is currently Director of the Master’s Program in Industrial Property, Copyright, and New Technologies at the Universidad Panamericana; and a Level 2 member of the National System of Researchers.

Research Areas

• Intellectual Property
• Industrial Property
• Copyright

Dr. Héctor Eduardo Gilardi Velázquez holds a bachelor’s degree in physics from the Autonomous University of Coahuila and a master’s degree and a doctorate in Control and Dynamic Systems from the Potosí Institute for Scientific and Technological Research.

He has published more than 30 research articles in international journals, 6 book chapters, and two books; he has participated in 10 international conferences and 16 national conferences; he is a member of the Mexican Physical Society and the Mexican Association for Dynamical Systems and Complexity.

He has been a professor at the Autonomous University of Coahuila and the Autonomous University of San Luis Potosí. He is currently a Level 1 member of the National System of Researchers and a Tenured Research Professor (Level B) in the School of Engineering at the Universidad Panamericana.

Research Areas

• Dynamic Systems
• Control
• Mathematical Modeling
• Chaos

He holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Education from the Universidad Panamericana. He holds a Ph.D. in Social Sciences from the Autonomous University of Aguascalientes. His research focuses on the thought and impact of Ernst Cassirer on contemporary philosophy. He is the co-author of the following books: Myth, Knowledge, and Action. Continuity and Change in Cultural Processes (2017, Peter Lang); *The Bounds of Myth: The Logical Path from Action to Knowledge* (2021, Brill); *Ernst Cassirer: The Symbolic Unity of Culture* (2024, Peter Lang); *Myth and Religion: The Cultural and Philosophical Significance of the Hero* (Brill, 2025); and *The Universal Form of the Singular: The Early Philosophy of Ernest Cassirer (1898–1917) (Brill, 2026). He is also the author of more than 20 scholarly articles on Cassirer. He is a member of the S.N.I.I. (National Institute of Research) at Level I and a tenured professor in the UP system at Level C.

Research Areas

• The Philosophy of Ernst Cassirer

He is a full-time researcher at the Institute of Humanities at the Universidad Panamericana, Aguascalientes campus, where he also serves as research secretary. He is a member of the editorial board of the journals *Kierkegaard Studies Yearbook* (Walter de Gruyter) and *Filozofia*. He has translated several works by the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard into Spanish, including *For an Examination of Conscience* (2008), *Postscript* (2009), and *Prefaces* (2011). He led the project to translate Kierkegaard’s diaries and papers into Spanish between 2011 and 2021. He has published numerous articles and book chapters in the field of Kierkegaard studies and the culture of Denmark’s Golden Age. His most recent books are *Philosophical and Theological Perspectives on the Figure of Job* (Brill, 2025) and *Poul Martin Møller: Poet, Philosopher, and Philologist* (Brill, 2026). He is currently working on a book about Kierkegaard’s early writings.

Research Areas

• Myth, knowledge and action
• Philosophy of religion

Dr. María Teresa Enríquez Gómez. Research Professor at the Institute of Humanities, with a deep commitment to academia that she has cultivated since 1995 through her teaching and her research on the Philosophy of Action, with a specialized focus on the thought of Thomas Aquinas.

To a lesser extent, he has explored this same area in analytic philosophy through the work of Harry Frankfurt. His current interests extend to Leonardo Polo and key concepts such as empire, nature, causality, and freedom.

His doctoral dissertation, which received the Extraordinary Award from the University of Navarra, was published by the prestigious German publisher Georg Olms Verlag (2011) and has been reviewed in five countries, demonstrating its international impact.

She has participated in three research projects funded by the Spanish government (2006–2016) and served as principal investigator for a team funded by CONACYT in 2010.

Her publications appear in journals indexed in Scopus and in highly prestigious publications in Germany, Spain, the United States, England, Mexico, the Netherlands, Poland, Switzerland, and Brazil. She has been invited to speak in Poland and to develop an online course for the International University of La Rioja (UNIR).

In addition to her academic work, she has demonstrated a strong commitment to social causes, serving as a member of the civil society organization “Aguascalientes, Gran Visión” (2003–2017), which focuses on regional development, and as an advisor to a youth training project that received an award from the Mexican Institute of Youth (2009).

Research Areas

• Philosophy of Action
  • At UP, it is part of “Practical Philosophy”
  • From the Strategic Focus: “Ethics, Culture, and Society”

Dr. Julieta Domínguez Soberanes holds a degree in Food Engineering, a master’s degree in Biotechnology, and a Ph.D. in Biological Sciences, which she earned with the distinction of summa cum laude. She furthered her education through the Senior Management Program for Agri-Food Companies (IPADE-ADEA) at the Pan American Institute for Senior Business Management. She currently serves as a Research Professor at the National Autonomous University of Aguascalientes ( Universidad Panamericana), Aguascalientes campus, and is a Level 2 member of the National System of Researchers (SNI).

She has led and collaborated on numerous research projects with both national and international funding. At the national level, she has received inter-institutional funding such as the Research Promotion Fund and support from CONACyT’s innovation programs, such as INNOVAPYME. Internationally, she has notably participated in the 100K Strong in the Americas program, sponsored by the U.S. Department of State and Partners of the Americas, in collaboration with the Gruma Foundation, Banorte, and Amazon, with projects approved in the 2022 and 2025 calls for proposals.

She has also collaborated with Mexico’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE) through the Mexican Agency for International Development Cooperation (AMEXCID) on outreach and development projects with an impact in Jamaica, implemented in 2022 and 2024–2025. She has established academic ties with the University of La Sabana in Colombia, where she has served as a visiting professor during summer programs.

At the European level, he has actively contributed to projects funded by the European Commission through the COST program. He participates in two thematic networks: PIMENTO (fermentedfoods.eu), in which he serves as co-leader, and NEXUSNET (nexusnet-cost.com).

Dr. Domínguez Soberanes plays an active role in academic, scientific, and leadership organizations. She currently serves as chair of the IEEE Aguascalientes Section (2023–2025) and as a member of the international council of IEEE Region 9. In addition, she is Vice President of Mujeres Empresarias del Maguey in Aguascalientes (2024–2026), Academic Coordinator, and Coordinator of Women in Science for the Mexico Section of the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) for the 2025–2027 term. She is a member of the Technical Committee of the Mexican Institute of Swine Science. Additionally, she has been appointed director of the Rotary Foundation of CREA Aguascalientes for the 2026–2027 term. She served on the national 50+1 agri-food commission in the sustainability section and is an advisor to the Aguascalientes State Institute of Science and Technology. She leads the agri-food working group at the Universidad Panamericana, fostering connections with the private sector, government, and academia. She is also the leader of the agri-food working group at CINOV (Center for Technological Innovation).

In the academic sphere, she has published articles in prestigious scientific journals such as *Foods*, *Journal of Food Biochemistry*, *Journal of Texture Studies*, *Phyton*, *Acta Horticulturae*, and *Revista de Ingeniería Química*, which have been widely cited internationally. She has also contributed three book chapters, technical translations, and more than 60 presentations at national and international conferences. She has been a guest speaker in Mexico and Colombia. She serves as a manuscript reviewer for indexed journals and as a reviewer for international projects. Since 2022, she has served as an associate editor for the Journal of Food Measurement and Characterization (Elsevier).

Its intellectual property portfolio includes one granted patent, one patent application, two utility models, two software registrations, and one registered trademark

She is a co-founder of the mezcal brand Tres Sentidos.

Research Areas

• Fermented Foods
• New product development
• Food Science and Technology
• Food Sustainability

She holds a BA in Literature from the Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, a PhD in Literature from the Universidad del Salvador, both in Argentina, and a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Barcelona, Spain.

Professor and researcher at the Institute of Humanities of the Universidad Panamericana, Campus Aguascalientes, Mexico, where she is Head of the Academy of History of Culture and Man and the Contemporary World.

Professor classified as Level D with an emphasis on research by the National Council for Higher Education ( Universidad Panamericana ) and Level I Researcher in the National System of Researchers (Conacyt), Mexico.
Undergraduate and graduate instructor, thesis advisor, and research consultant for specialized journals.

His field of study is the hermeneutics of tradition in the classical tradition, and his research focuses on the reinterpretation of Greek myths in European and Latin American literary culture.

Research Areas

• Myth, knowledge and action

Prof. Claudio César Calabrese was born in Argentina; he received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, in 1984 and a Doctorate in Letters from the Universidad del Salvador, in the city of Buenos Aires, in 1999. At the University of Barcelona (Spain), he obtained the degrees of Master and Doctor of Philosophy. Since 2014, he is a full time professor at the Institute of Humanities of the Universidad Panamericana (Campus Aguascalientes) and since 2017, Secretary of Research at the Institute; Member Level I of the National System of Researchers of CONACyT; he is responsible for the Research Line Myth, Knowledge and Action. His field of research is linked to pagan and Christian Neoplatonism, especially focused on the figure of St. Augustine. He has published six books, a dozen book chapters and dozens of articles in his specialty.

Research Areas

• Myth, knowledge and action