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Mexico City
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Texcalucan, Huixquilucan,
State of Mexico
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Ciudad Granja,
ZIP Code 45010, Zapopan,
Jalisco, Mexico
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Av. Javier Barros Sierra,
No. 540, 3rd Floor. Col. Santa Fe,
ZIP Code 01210, Álvaro Obregón District.
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UP Campus: Mexico City

  • María Victoria Carreras Cruz

    María Victoria Carreras Cruz

    Bachelor’s degree in Mathematical Cybernetics from the Faculty of Exact Sciences at the University of Havana, 1983. Master’s degree in Business Administration from ISEC University, Mexico City, 2001. Master’s degree in Cybersecurity from CEUPE, Spain, 2022. ISO 27001 Internal Auditor certified by TÜV NORD (Cybersecurity Auditor), Spain, 202. Ph.D. in Computer Science from ITESM, Mexico City, 2007. Graduate of the ADIT Program at IPADE, Mexico City, 2008. Specialization in Philosophical Anthropology from the National Autonomous University of Mexico ( Universidad Panamericana ), Mexico City Campus, 2020.

    Systems Analyst at the National Institute of Oncology and Radiobiology of Cuba, 1984–1987. Research Fellow, 1987–1991. Associate Researcher at the Cuban Academy of Sciences, 1991–1995. Director of the Technology Division of the National Breast Cancer Program in Cuba, 1990–1995. Director of the Automation Department at the National Institute of Oncology and Radiobiology in Cuba, 1993–1995. Systems Manager and Network Administrator at PETRAMIN S.A. DE C.V., 1995–2000. Director of University Extension at ISEC University, 2000–2001.

    Professor and Researcher at the Universidad Panamericana. Director of the Animation and Video Games Engineering Program at the Universidad Panamericana, Mexico City Campus, 2007–2019. Director of the Data Intelligence and Cybersecurity Engineering program at Universidad Panamericana , Mexico City Campus (formerly the Information Technology and Intelligent Systems Engineering program), 2013–present. Tenured Professor at Universidad Panamericana , 2021–present.

    More than 30 international scientific publications and more than 60 computer systems developed. Patent titled “Automated image processing and interpretation based on segmentation, and equipment for carrying out this procedure.” Granted on September 11, 2012. File No. MX/a/2008/007657.

    Research Areas

    • Signal Processing and Pattern Recognition
    • Artificial Intelligence
    • Cybersecurity
    • Technology
    • Data Science
    • Technology Education
    • Risk Management
  • Luis Xavier López Farjeat

    Luis Xavier López Farjeat

    Luis Xavier López-Farjeat received his Doctorate in Philosophy and Letters from the University of Navarra, Spain, in 2001. He is a tenured professor and researcher (Level D) in the School of Philosophy at the Universidad Panamericana, Mexico City Campus. He is a Level III member of the National System of Researchers.

    He is the editor of *Tópicos, Revista de Filosofía* (https://revistas.up.edu.mx/topicos). He is the associate director of the “Aquinas and ‘the Arabs’ International Working Group” (www.AquinasAndTheArabs.org).

    His areas of interest include classical Arabic and Islamic philosophy, the theory of argumentation, epistemology and the philosophy of mind, ethics and political philosophy, the ethics of migration, the philosophy of religion, and the philosophy of art. He has published several books and numerous scholarly articles and book chapters on these topics. In 2021, he published the book *Classical Islamic Philosophy: A Thematic Introduction* with Routledge.

    Research Areas

    • Islamic Philosophy
    • The Ethics of Migration
    • The Transmission of Ancient Philosophy to the Islamic World
  • Laura Trujillo Liñán

    Laura Trujillo Liñán

    Laura Trujillo-Liñán is a professor and researcher in the Humanities, Communication, and Philosophy at the Universidad Panamericana. She directs the UP Open University.

    He is Vice President of the Media Ecology Association, a member of the Board of the General Semantics Institute in New York City, a member of the Instituto Promotor del Bien Común (UPAEP), a member of the International Communication Association (ICA) and the Mexican Philosophical Association (AFM), and a member of the National System of Researchers in Mexico City (SNI). He holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree in philosophy. In addition, he earned his Ph.D. in History of Thought from the Universidad Panamericana , with a dissertation on the formal cause in the thought of Marshall McLuhan and Aristotle.

    She is the recipient of the Media Ecology Association’s Marshall McLuhan Award for her book *Formal Cause in Marshall McLuhan’s Thinking: An Aristotelian Perspective*. She has written numerous articles and book chapters on topics related to Marshall McLuhan, Aristotle, metaphysics, ethics, and media.

    Research Areas

    • Philosophy of Technology
    • Media Ecology
  • Juan Manuel Otero Varela

    Juan Manuel Otero Varela

    Ph.D. in Law; Research Professor affiliated with the School of Law; member of the National System of Researchers (N1); Category B Researcher; associate member of the Ibero-American Forum on Administrative Law and the Center for Research on Global Public Law at the University of A Coruña.
    He is the author and editor of various books and articles in specialized journals. Guest columnist for *El Financiero*.

    Research Areas

    • Public Procurement
    • Public Law
    • Ethics in Public Service
  • Juan Francisco Díez Spelz

    Juan Francisco Díez Spelz

    He holds a PhD in Law, a Master's degree in Legal Sciences, a Master's degree in Business Law, and a Bachelor's degree in Law from the Universidad Panamericana. He holds a Master's degree in Human Rights Theory and Practice from the University of Essex (United Kingdom), where he was part of the working group on Business and Human Rights. He also holds a diploma in International Human Rights Law from the University of Oxford.

    He is currently a tenured research professor at the Faculty of Law of the Universidad Panamericana, Mexico City campus. He conducts research and consulting on business and human rights, responsible business conduct, ESG criteria, and international human rights law, as well as the philosophical, anthropological, and political foundations of these rights. He also explores the links between law, artificial intelligence, and new technologies. He teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses at the Panamericana and other national and international institutions on subjects such as Philosophy of Law, Logic and Legal Argumentation, Human Rights, and Research Methodology.

    He has published articles in indexed scientific journals and contributed to collective books and popular media.

    She is a member of SECIHTI’s National System of Researchers (SNII), Level I, as well as an associate member of the Mexican Academy of Jurisprudence and Legislation and the Illustrious National Bar Association of Mexico.

    Research Areas

    • Human Rights (Theory and Its Connection to the Business World)
    • Philosophy of Law
    • Law
    • Artificial Intelligence and New Technologies
    • Business and Sustainability
    • Theory of Law and Justice in Contemporary Contexts
  • Juan Antonio Casanovas Esquivel

    Juan Antonio Casanovas Esquivel

    Juan Antonio Casanovas Esquivel has a law degree, a specialist in tax law, a master's degree in legal sciences and a doctorate in law, all degrees obtained from Universidad Panamericana and with honorable mention.

    He is currently a full time Research Professor at the School of Law of Universidad Panamericana, where he also served as academic director of the Master's Degree in Financial Law Institutions and Academic Secretary of the Bachelor's Degree.

    He is a Level I National Researcher in the National System of Researchers (SECIHTI) and the author of the books *Al maestro con cariño: El cine y la enseñanza del Derecho Comparado* (To the Teacher with Affection: Film and the Teaching of Comparative Law), published by the Division of Graduate Studies in Law at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, and *El hombre en tanto hombre: la ley natural y los bienes humanos básicos según John Finnis a la luz del cine* (Man as Man: Natural Law and Basic Human Goods According to John Finnis in the Light of Film), published by the Spanish publisher Sindéresis.

    Research Areas

    • Philosophy of Law
    • Comparative Law
    • Law and Film
  • José María Soberanes Díez

    José María Soberanes Díez

    A native of Mexico City, he holds a bachelor’s degree in law, a master’s degree in legal
    sciences, and a Juris Doctor degree, with honors, from the Law School of the
    t the Universidad Panamericana.

    He worked for seven years at the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation, where he served as
    secretary of research and accounting. He subsequently moved on to a career in
    academia. For more than a decade, he has been a professor and researcher at the Universidad
    Panamericana’s Mexico City campus, and he is also a visiting professor at other
    universities throughout the country.

    At the Panamericana University, he has served as academic secretary and director of the postgraduate program in law (
    ), and he is currently the research secretary of the Faculty of Law
    .

    He is a Level III National Researcher in the National System of Researchers of the National Institute of Health Technology and Health Information (
    , SECIHTI).

    He is the author of numerous articles in specialized journals, several book chapters, and
    seven books:

    • Process Theory,
    • The case law of the Federal Judiciary,
    • Legal equality and inequality,
    • The right to education in Mexico,
    • Formal Analysis of Constitutional Reforms,
    • Conflicts between constitutional bodies and the Federal Judiciary and
    • Amendments to the 1917 Constitution.

    In addition, he has co-authored two books and is a columnist for El Universal.

    He is the section editor of the journal *Cuestiones Constitucionales*, a member of the editorial board
    of the journal *Ratio Decidendi*, and a member of the scientific committees of the journals *Tohil*
    (published by the Autonomous University of Yucatán) and the Yearbook of the Law School of the
    University of Extremadura. In addition, he is a member of the Board of the Institute
    of International Legal Studies at Rey Juan Carlos University in Spain.

    He is a member of the Ibero-American Institute of Constitutional Law and the
    International Society of Public Law.

    Research Areas

    • Constitutional Law
    • Human Rights
    • Organizational Structure
  • Jorge Eduardo Brieva Rico

    Jorge Eduardo Brieva Rico

    Dr. Jorge Eduardo Brieva Rico received a degree in Electrical Engineering in 1993 from the Universidad de los Andes in Bogota, Colombia and a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from the same University which he completed in 1995. He then traveled to France as a French government scholarship holder to pursue a second master's degree in Image Processing at the University of Rennes 1 and a PhD in Signal Processing at the same university where he received his PhD degree in 2001. In 2016 he completed a specialization in Philosophical Anthropology at Universidad Panamericana, campus Mexico. Since 2012 he has been working at Universidad Panamericana, where he is currently a Full Researcher D in the Faculty of Engineering. He is also a member of the National System of Researchers (Conacyt), level 1. He has numerous publications in his research areas, which are segmentation, and interpretation of medical images as well as monitoring of vital signs from video processing.

    Research Areas

    • Vital Signs Monitoring
    • Image Processing and Its Methodologies
  • Iñigo Fernández Fernández

    Iñigo Fernández Fernández

    He holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree in history from the Universidad Iberoamericana and a Ph.D. in Documentation from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He currently serves as a professor and researcher and as Secretary of Research at the School of Communication at the Universidad Panamericana. He is a member of the SNII (Level I), the International Network of Communication Historians, the Network of Historians of the Press and Journalism in Ibero-America, and the Editorial Board of *Balajú: Journal of Culture and Communication* at the Universidad Veracruzana.

    Research Areas

    • The Formation of Public Space
    • Mexican Journalistic Culture
    • Media Ecology
  • Hiram Eredin Ponce Espinosa

    Hiram Eredin Ponce Espinosa

    Professor Hiram Ponce received his Master’s degree in Engineering Sciences and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Tecnológico de Monterrey in 2010 and 2013, respectively. Since 2014, he has been working at the Universidad Panamericana , Mexico Campus, where he has served as a Tenured Research Professor (Level D) in the School of Engineering, as well as Coordinator of the Ph.D. program in Artificial Intelligence. He currently serves as Secretary of Research.

    He is also a member of the National System of Researchers, Level 1 (as designated by the National Council for Science and Technology). In 2014, he was awarded the “National Prize for Best Doctoral Thesis on Artificial Intelligence” by the Mexican Society for Artificial Intelligence. In 2017, he won the “Google Research Award.”

    He has published more than 120 articles in prestigious journals and conference proceedings, as well as 4 books and 9 book chapters. His research interests include artificial intelligence, robotics, mechatronics, and assistive technologies.

    Research Areas

    • Mechatronics
    • Robotics
    • Artificial Intelligence
  • Héctor Jesús Zagal Arreguín

    Héctor Jesús Zagal Arreguín

    Researcher, novelist and cultural disseminator, Zagal holds a degree in Philosophy from the Universidad Panamericana and a PhD from the Universidad de Navarra. He is currently a category D research professor at the Universidad Panamericana, professor by subject at the Graduate School of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and member of the National System of Researchers, level III.

    Carlos Pereda, Alejandro Llano, Mauricio Beuchot and Carlos Llano have been decisive in his academic formation and he considers himself a disciple of these philosophers.

    In addition to several articles in specialized journals, he has published the books: Retórica, inducción y ciencia en Aristóteles (Mexico, 1991), Los límites de la argumentación ética en Aristóteles, (co-authored with Sergio Aguilar, Mexico, 1996), Ethik für junge Menschen (co-authored with José Galindo, Germany, 2000), Dos aproximaciones estéticas a la identidad nacional: el barroco y el surrealismo (co-authored with Luis Xavier López, Mexico, 2000), El rescate ético de la empresa y el mercado (co-authored with Carlos Llano, Mexico, 2001), Horismos, syllogismos, asapheia en Aristóteles (Spain, 2002), Método y ciencia en Aristóteles (Mexico, 2005), Los argumentos de Aristóteles (Spain, 2009), Felicidad, virtud, placer. Las vida buena según Aristóteles (Mexico, 2013), Felicidad y amistad en Aristóteles (Mexico, 2014), Para comprender el pensamiento de Carlos Llano (Mexico, 2014), Virtudes: la trama de la felicidad según Aristóteles (co-authored with Víctor Gómez, Mexico, 2019). He compiled the volumes Aristóteles y aristotélicos (together with Alberto Fonseca Mexico, 2002) and Metafísica, acción y voluntad: homenaje a Carlos Llano (together with Edgar Rodríguez Mexico, 2005).

    In addition to his work as a researcher, Zagal develops an intense work of cultural dissemination through books, articles, radio, conferences and social networks. Since 2010, he has hosted the program "El Banquete del Dr. Zagal" on MVS Radio. He has published seven novels with Planeta, six of which are historical. Imperio, about Maximilian of Habsburg, was taken to the theater and has been performed since 2013 at the Chapultepec Castle in Mexico City.

    Research Areas

    • The Practical Philosophy of Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas
    • The Relationship Between Philosophy and Literature