UP Campus: Mexico City

Mechanical Engineer from the National Polytechnic School of the University of Chile ( Universidad Panamericana ) and Ph.D. in Materials Technology from the CEIT at the University of Navarra in Spain. More than 25 years of experience in research projects related to the automotive industry and in the development of academic programs in Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics, and graduate programs in technical fields. Held leadership positions in the School of Engineering, including program director, graduate program director, and research secretary. Member of the SNII.

Research Areas

• Materials
• Simulation of Thermomechanical Deformation Processes

Law degree from the Escuela Libre de Derecho. Master’s degree in Bioethics from the Universidad Panamericana , with honors. Doctor of Science from the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Specialist in Philosophical Anthropology. Candidate for the National System of Researchers of the Mexican Ministry of Science, Humanities, Technology, and Innovation.

He completed a research fellowship at the Institute of Bioethics at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá, Colombia. He is a member of the Bioethics Committee for Health Care at FUCAM (Breast Cancer Foundation, AC) and of the Research Ethics Committee at the National Institute of Geriatrics in Mexico City.

Adjunct Professor at the Mexico campus of the Universidad Panamericana , teaching in the Bachelor of Laws program, the Master of Legal Sciences program, and the Master’s and Doctoral programs in Bioethics in the School of Health Sciences. She teaches courses such as Justice and Human Rights, Selected Topics in Justice, Bioethics and Law, and Bioethical Dilemmas and Their Legal Resolution, among others.

Research Areas

• Law and Bioethics
• Human rights
• End of Life: Dignified Death, Euthanasia, Assisted Suicide, Palliative Care, Advance Directive

She holds a Ph.D. and a Master of Arts in Philosophy from the University of Buenos Aires and is a member of the SNIII (Mexico, SECIHTI). Born in Argentina and based in Mexico, she has extensive teaching experience at universities in both countries, where she has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in areas such as the History of Ancient Philosophy, Ethics and Philosophy, and Gender Studies.

Her research focuses on the reception of ancient philosophy in contemporary thought and on the history of the philosophy of pregnancy and motherhood. She is the author of the book *Gilles Deleuze’s Plato* (2019) and *Women in Antiquity: Childbirth, Motherhood, and Birth* (2020) and has received various grants (CONICET, DGAPA-UNAM, U. Panamericana).

His work encompasses teaching, research, and the dissemination of philosophical knowledge.

Research Areas

• History of Ancient Philosophy
• Gender Studies
• Socratic Philosophies
• French Theory

She holds a Ph.D. in Business Administration with honors from the National University of the Andes ( Universidad Panamericana ) (2023), a Master’s degree in Finance from the University of the Valley of Atemajac (Universidad del Valle de Atemajac) (2008), and a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and Finance from the University of the Andes ( Universidad Panamericana ) (2003). She has served as a research professor in the School of Business at the University of the Andes ( Universidad Panamericana ) since August 2023, where she also serves as academic secretary.

Since 2006, he has taught courses in Financial Analysis, Financial Mathematics, Financial Information Systems, Financial Engineering, Technological Tools for Information Management, and Information Technology at various schools and faculties on the Guadalajara and Mexico City campuses. His research areas include inequality, social mobility, well-being, impact assessment, STEM, financial education, and small businesses.

She was selected to participate in the 8th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Economic Sciences in Lindau, Germany (2025). She also participated in the project to assess the impact of a community center in the Santa Fe neighborhood of Mexico City, which continues to generate new research. In addition, she has contributed to studies related to the gender gap in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).

Research Areas

• Inequality
• Social Mobility
• Welfare
• Impact Assessment
• STEM
• Financial Education
• Small Businesses

Ph.D. in Communication from the Universidad de los Andes (Chile), with a dissertation on the representation of violence in Mexican cinema from the perspective of Aristotelian catharsis.

He earned a master’s degree in Narrative and Digital Production from the National School of Cinematography and Television ( Universidad Panamericana ) in Mexico. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Hispanic Philology and Audiovisual Communication from the University of Navarra (Spain).

An academic interested in screenwriting and research on aspects related to narrative and poetics in audiovisual fiction. He is a member of the National System of Researchers (SNII), the Screenwriting Research Network (currently on the Steering Committee), and the Ibero-American Network for Research on Audiovisual Narratives. He chairs the Film Committee of the Mexican section of SIGNIS, the International Association of Catholic Communicators. He has served on the jury at several international film festivals, including those in Guanajuato, Washington, Toulouse, Warsaw, and Berlin. He is a film critic for the website PalomitasCaramelizadas.com.

Research professor at the School of Communication at the Universidad Panamericana, where he served as director of the bachelor’s degree program in Communication for 7 years. He teaches courses on Film and Audiovisual Narrative.

Research Areas

• Audiovisual narrative
• Screenplay
• Mexican cinema
• Depictions of Violence in the Media

André Laks holds a Ph.D. in Classical Literature from the University of Lille and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from
the Sorbonne. He was a professor of ancient philosophy at the University of Lille (1989–1991) and at the
(1994–2007); at Princeton University (1991–1994); at the Sorbonne (
); at the University of Mexico City (2007–2012); and at the Universidad Panamericana, Mexico City, since 2012 (formerly SNI Level 3).

Research Areas

• Philosophy in Greece
• Plato and Aristotle
• Doxography
• The Modern Reception of Ancient Philosophy and the History of Hermeneutics