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Mexico City
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Jalisco, Mexico
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UP Campus: Mexico City

  • Germán Roberto Scalzo

    Germán Roberto Scalzo

    Germán Scalzo holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Austral University; a master’s degree in Organizational Governance and Culture; and an international Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Navarra. He has conducted research stays in the Netherlands, Italy, and the United States, served as a visiting professor at several foreign universities, and participated in international conferences in more than 20 countries.

    He has received numerous honors, including a postdoctoral fellowship from the Carolina Foundation; five consecutive grants from the FFIUP as principal investigator; and first prize in the Global Prize for Ethics & Trust in Finance in Switzerland. He has authored approximately one hundred indexed interdisciplinary publications on the relationship between Christian humanism and personalist ethics, and their connection to economics and business.

    He is currently a Tenured Professor (Level D) of professional ethics in the School of Economics and Business and has been a member of Mexico’s National System of Researchers (Level 1) since 2016.

    Research Areas

    • Virtue Ethics
    • Business Economics
    • The Logic of the Gift and Academic Integrity
  • Gabriel González Nares

    Gabriel González Nares

    Gabriel González Nares holds a master’s degree in Ancient Philosophy from the Universidad
    Panamericana in Mexico and a bachelor’s degree in Philosophy from the same university. He has served as
    a professor of philosophy at Colegio Montreal and in the Department of Humanities, as well as at
    the School of Health Sciences and the School of Government and Economics at the Universidad
    Panamericana, where he is currently a full-
    y associate professor and researcher at the School of Education, where he served as editorial secretary of the Revista
    Panamericana de Pedagogía. He has attended international conferences on philosophy
    and medieval philosophy. He has published scholarly articles on these topics in international
    journals. He is a member of the Mexican Philosophical Association and the
    Latin American Association of Ancient Philosophy. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in philosophy at the
    National Autonomous University of Mexico.

    Research Areas

    • Philosophy of education
    • Platonic Metaphysics
    • The Medieval Latin Reception of Neoplatonism
    • Renaissance Humanism
    • New Spain Philosophy
  • Felix Orlando Martinez Rios

    Felix Orlando Martinez Rios

    Professor Felix Orlando Martinez Rios received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey in 2006 and 2009, respectively, obtaining Summa Cum Laude recognition in both. He holds a B.Sc. degree in Physics with a major in Nuclear Techniques applied to Materials Science from the University of Havana, Cuba in 1980. Since 1997 he has worked at Universidad Panamericana campus Mexico City, where he has served as Director of Industrial Engineering in 1998, Director of Computer Systems Engineering from 1999 to 2009 and General Director of the School of Engineering from 2009 to 2016. He is currently Full Professor D. He is also a member of the National System of Researchers, level I. His research interests are focused on developing new algorithms for Optimization, Quantum Computing, Applied Data Science and Mobile Robotics.

    Research Areas

    • Nature-Inspired Algorithms for Optimization
    • Parallel Programming with Graphics Cards
    • Data Science with Artificial Intelligence
  • Ernesto Moya Albor

    Ernesto Moya Albor

    Ernesto Moya Albor received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Engineering from UNAM in 2007 and 2013. In 2003 he received the degree of Engineer in Communications and Electronics from the IPN and in 2015 he received the degree of Specialist in Philosophical Anthropology from the UP. He has a career of 19 years as Professor in Engineering. In 2013 he joined as Research Professor at the Faculty of Engineering of the Universidad Panamericana in Mexico City. In 2021 he was recognized by UP as Full Research Professor D. In addition, since 2018 he is a member of the National System of Researchers and is currently SNI level 1. He has been a PhD tutor and participated in UP research projects. He has more than 50 indexed scientific publications. His research interests are motion analysis, stenography and image cryptography; robotic navigation and non-contact vital signs monitoring. He is a member of several scientific committees in international journals.

    Research Areas

    • Digital Image Processing
    • Machine Learning
    • Robotics.
  • Enrique Martín Murillo Othón

    Enrique Martín Murillo Othón

    Professor Enrique Murillo Othón holds a degree in Actuarial Science from UNAM and a master’s degree in Information Technology Management from ITESM. He also holds a master’s degree in Research Methods for the Social Sciences and a PhD in Management from the University of Bradford in England. He subsequently completed a postdoctoral program in Organizational Behavior at Tulane University and spent a research sabbatical at Temple University in Philadelphia. In 2018, he joined the School of Economics and Business at the National Autonomous University of Mexico ( Universidad Panamericana), where he is currently a professor of Marketing and a Tenured Researcher (Level C). He is also a Level 1 member of the National System of Researchers. He has published in Scopus first-quartile scientific journals, such as the *Journal of Service Management*, the *International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management*, the *Journal of Product and Brand Management*, and the *Journal of Business Research*.

    Research Areas

    • Internal Branding
    • Brand Management
  • Eduardo Oscar Charpenel Elorduy

    Eduardo Oscar Charpenel Elorduy

    Professor Eduardo Charpenel Elorduy earned a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from the Universidad Panamericana and a Bachelor of Arts in Modern English Literature from UNAM. He also completed a Master of Arts in Philosophy at UNAM and received his Ph.D. in the same discipline from the University of Bonn in Germany, graduating with honors (“magna cum laude”). He has been a fellow of CONACYT and the DAAD. He is a tenured Research Professor “B” at the Universidad Panamericana and a member of the National System of Researchers (Level II). He has also served as a visiting professor and visiting scholar at his alma mater in Germany. He specializes in ancient philosophy (Aristotle) and German idealism (Kant, Hegel), as well as selected topics in ethics, political philosophy, philosophy of law, philosophy of religion, and aesthetics.

    Research Areas

    • Ancient Philosophy in Greece
    • Practical Philosophy
  • Claudia Fabiola Ortega Barba

    Claudia Fabiola Ortega Barba

    Level I National Researcher in the National System of Researchers (SNII). She holds a Ph.D. in Pedagogy from the School of Philosophy and Letters at the National Autonomous University of Mexico and completed postdoctoral studies on Curriculum, Discourse, and Researcher Training with the International Network on the Teaching of Research (RISEI), of which she is a member. She is a member of the Mexican Network of Educational Research Scholars (REDMIIE) and the Mexican Council for Educational Research (COMIE). She is a Tenured B-Level Research Professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico ( Universidad Panamericana). She currently serves as Director of Research at the Mexico City Campus of the National Autonomous University of Mexico ( Universidad Panamericana).

    Research Areas

    • Mediation in Teaching and Learning Processes
    • Women's Leadership in Institutions of Higher Education
    • Educational Research
  • Luis Fernando Valdés López

    Luis Fernando Valdés López

    He is the Head of the Intercampi Academy of Theology at Universidad Panamericana. D. and Master in Theology from the University of Navarra (Pamplona, Spain), he received the Extraordinary Doctorate Award, a Bachelor in Theology from the University of the Holy Cross (Rome) and a Licentiate in Philosophy from Universidad Panamericana (Mexico).

    He is Secretary of the Mexican Academy of Theology, Dean of the Studium Generale of the Prelature of Opus Dei in Mexico and Academic Secretary of the Digital Theological Institute (ITED).

    His publications and research revolve around the discourse of faith in the public space of a secular society; as well as the credibility of faith and the reasonableness of Christian revelation, from an anthropological approach that serves as a bridge of dialogue between the two; along with issues of theological methodology and introduction to the Holy Scriptures.

    He has published eleven books, including academic research in Philosophy and Theology, as well as popular works on Bioethics and on the pontiffs Benedict XVI and Francis. He is a contributor to several indexed journals; for 14 years he wrote more than 800 articles in the column Fe y Razón, which was published in Mexico, United States, Spain, Costa Rica, Ecuador and Chile. He has given more than 60 conferences to priests, university professors and students, businessmen, as well as to the general public.

  • María José Urteaga Rodríguez

    María José Urteaga Rodríguez

    María José Urteaga Rodríguez is a Ph.D. candidate in Philosophy at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. She earned a Master’s degree in Philosophy from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (2014) and a Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy from the Universidad Panamericana 2009). Since 2011, she has been a research professor at the Institute of Humanities. Her areas of interest are epistemology and social philosophy.

  • Fabiola Eunice Saul Gavito

    Fabiola Eunice Saul Gavito

    D. in History of Thought. She was Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of Classical Letters at Brown University (USA). She holds a B.A. and M.A. in Pedagogy from Universidad Panamericana. She holds a Bachelor's Degree in Theology from the University of the Holy Cross (Rome). She is an English teacher (The Anglo Institute, CELE-UNAM, Cambridge University, TKT). She teaches Theological Anthropology I and II, Ethics, Social Philosophy and Philosophy of Hospitality (ESDAI). She has published a book entitled Hospitality in the Odyssey, and articles related to hospitality, education and the thought-language relationship. Since 2011 she works as Professor-Researcher at the Institute of Humanities.

  • Alejandro Sada Mier y Terán

    Alejandro Sada Mier y Terán

    Professor Alejandro Sada received a Master's degree in Philosophy with honors from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (2016) and a PhD degree in Philosophy summa cum laude from the University of Navarra (2020), for which he obtained a scholarship from the Universidad Panamericana. Since 2011 he has worked as a Research Professor at this institution, where he has taught different undergraduate and graduate courses, such as History of Culture, Person and Society, Ethics, Theological Anthropology I and II, Introduction to Christianity, Social Philosophy, Man and Contemporary World, Joseph Ratzinger in dialogue with culture. He has published several specialized articles in scientific journals. Among his most recent publications are the books: Assent and Certainty in the Thought of John Henry Newman. A Defense of Religious Belief (Nun, 2021); Sense and Truth. Towards a New Understanding of Philosophy from the Thought of Joseph Ratzinger (BAC, 2023). He is editor, with Tracey Rowland and Rudy Albino de Assunção, of the book Ratzinger and the Philosophers. From Plato to Vattimo, soon to be published in English, Spanish and German (Bloomsbury, T&T Clark; Encuentro; Ratzinger Studien). He is especially interested in the relationship between faith and reason (theology and philosophy), and in the metaphysical and anthropological implications of the Christian faith. He is also engaged in the study of the thought of John Henry Newman and Joseph Ratzinger. He currently directs an international research group on the Collaboration between philosophy and theology in the thought of Joseph Ratzinger, which has obtained resources from the Research Promotion Fund for two consecutive years.