UP Campus: Aguascalientes

Dr. María Teresa earned a degree in Electronics and Digital Systems Engineering from Bonaterra University, graduating with honors for her thesis titled “Electronic Design of a Digital Pulse Oximeter.” She later earned a specialization in robotics from the Universidad Panamericana. She pursued a Master of Science degree, conducting research on microelectromechanical systems, and subsequently earned her Ph.D. by studying the optimization of mechanism balancing using natural coordinates, graduating with honors.

She has been a professor in the School of Engineering since 2002, where she has taught various courses in the departments of Mathematics, Mechanics, and Electronics. She has also taught graduate-level courses at the Nitte Meenakshi Institute of Technology in India and undergraduate-level courses at the Rzeszów University of Technology in Poland.

He has participated in research projects such as the 2020 Research Promotion Fund and the 2021 Research Promotion Fund. He also carried out the project “Analysis and Optimization of Mechanisms Using Natural Coordinates,” funded by the State Fund for Technological Innovation of the Aguascalientes State Institute of Science and Technology (INCyTEA) in 2024.

She has supervised graduate theses at the Aguascalientes campus of the National Institute of Technology ( Universidad Panamericana ) and has also served as a co-advisor for graduate theses at the Nitte Meenakshi Institute of Technology in India.
Her research interests include: instrumentation, automation, robotics, mathematical modeling, and computer vision.

Research Areas

• Robotics
• Mathematical Modeling
• Instrumentation
• Computer Vision

Dr. Gabriela Durán Aguilar, a distinguished product designer. Since 2007, she has been an entrepreneur as a founding partner of Corporativo APR y Diseño. In the academic sphere, she serves as Head of the Academy of Innovation and Design and as a professor in the School of Engineering at the National Autonomous University of Aguascalientes ( Universidad Panamericana), Aguascalientes Campus. She is also a Candidate-level member of the National System of Innovation and Innovation (SNII). Her solid academic background is supported by a Ph.D. in Engineering, with a focus on innovation, design, and technology.

Previously, he earned a master’s degree in Industrial and Intellectual Property and a master’s degree in Exhibition Design and Management, both of which complemented his bachelor’s degree in Industrial Design.

The primary objective is to promote research and product development, with a deep specialization in medical and ergonomic design. Its goal is to improve patients’ quality of life by addressing health issues through the design of medical devices.

This is reflected in her commitment to projects such as the treatment of lymphedema secondary to breast cancer, the redesign of the hemodialysis catheter, and the Nura breast pump. To achieve her goals, she employs applied research and healthcare ergonomics.

It uses methodologies such as Experience Design to improve user interaction with medical devices, such as urinary catheters. It also integrates advanced technological and analytical tools, such as the simulation of biological environments.

Her ability to combine industrial design with the health sciences has led her to file two patent applications for an artificial lymphatic vessel.

His work has received international and national recognition, including awards such as the NTT Data 2023 Mexico Award, the National Design Award in multiple editions (2020–2024), and being a finalist in the 2025 Mobile World Capital Awards and Seoul Design 2025.

Research Areas

• Health Design and Product Development
• Design and Technology

Ramiro Velázquez Guerrero is a full-time professor in the School of Engineering at the Aguascalientes campus of the Universidad Panamericana . He has served as director of the Mechatronics Engineering program, dean of the School of Engineering, and vice president for research. He is currently the academic vice president at this campus.

He earned a Bachelor’s degree in Electronics Engineering from the National Institute of Applied Sciences of Aguascalientes ( Universidad Panamericana , Aguascalientes, MX), a Master’s degree in Automatic Control Systems from the National Institute of Applied Sciences of Lyon (INSA-Lyon, FR), and a Ph.D. in Robotics from Pierre and Marie Curie University (Paris, FR) in 1999, 2002, and 2006, respectively. He has served as a visiting professor at the University of Magdalena (Colombia), ASKSiM (Poland), and La Salle University (Colombia).

Dr. Velázquez is recognized as an expert reviewer by the European Commission, the Swiss National Science Foundation, CONACYT (Mexico), COLCIENCIAS (Colombia), FONCyT (Argentina), CONCYTEC (Peru), and the Ministry of Science and Technology (Israel). He serves on the editorial board and as a reviewer for numerous indexed journals and international conferences.

He is the author or co-author of more than 200 articles in indexed journals and at international and national conferences. His research interests include assistive technologies for people with physical disabilities, robotics and mechatronics, image processing, and human-computer interaction. His research has been covered and featured by IEEE Spectrum, CNN, CBS News, and the BBC.

Dr. Velázquez is a Level I member of the National System of Researchers.

Research Areas

• Assistive technologies
• Mechatronic Systems
• Image Processing

Dr. Pedro Manuel Rodrigo Cruz studied industrial engineering at the University of Navarra and holds a Ph.D. in Renewable Energy from the University of Jaén, Spain. He was awarded the Extraordinary Doctoral Prize at the University of Jaén. For 13 years, he has worked as a professor and researcher in the School of Engineering at the Aguascalientes campus of the National Autonomous University of Mexico ( Universidad Panamericana ), where he currently holds the position of Tenured Researcher C. He previously served as Secretary of Research for that school and is currently the campus’s Director of Research.

A researcher in the field of solar photovoltaics, he is the author of 86 scientific publications indexed in Scopus (h-index: 25, number of citations: 1,905). He is also the author of four book chapters and two patents. He is a Level 1 member of the National System of Researchers (SNI) of Mexico’s Secretariat of Science, Humanities, Technology, and Innovation (SECIHTI). He serves as a reviewer for high-impact journals such as *Applied Energy*, *Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells*, *Energy Conversion and Management*, etc.

He collaborates with several solar energy research networks both in Mexico and internationally. He has participated in various research projects in Spain and Mexico. He received the European Union’s Seal of Excellence for a project submitted under the Marie Skłodowska Curie calls for proposals. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Jaén with funding from the Spanish Ministry of Science. He teaches courses on Energy and Research Methodology at the undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral levels at the National Autonomous University of Mexico ( Universidad Panamericana ).

Research Areas

• Photovoltaic solar energy

He earned a bachelor’s degree in Electronic Engineering in 2006 and a master’s degree in Electrical Engineering in 2010, both from the Technological Institute of Ciudad Madero. He earned a Ph.D. in Applied Sciences in Control and Dynamic Systems from the Potosí Institute for Scientific and Technological Research (IPICYT) in 2017. He won second place nationally at the doctoral level in the 2017 National Thesis Competitions.

He was a full-time professor in the Electronic Engineering program at the Instituto Tecnológico Superior de Pánuco in Veracruz from 2015 to 2018. He completed a SECIHTI postdoctoral fellowship at the Tecnológico de Monterrey from 2018 to 2020.

He is currently at Level 1 in the National System of Researchers. He has served as a research professor at the National Autonomous University of Aguascalientes ( Universidad Panamericana ), Aguascalientes campus, since 2020. He is currently a Tenured Research Professor (C).

His research interests include the development of electronic power converters, power quality, and control applied to power systems. His academic experience at the university level includes teaching courses in electromagnetism, electrical circuits, analog electronics, control systems, and power electronics.

Research Areas

• Power Electronics: Design and Control
• Microcontroller Programming
• Energy Processing
• Signal Processing Converters and Filters

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