UP Campus: Guadalajara

Yurixhi Gallardo received a master’s degree in Humanities and Social Sciences from Abat Oliba University in 2006, a master’s degree in the History of Thought from the University of the Holy Spirit ( Universidad Panamericana ) in 2010, and a Doctor of Law degree from the University of the Holy Spirit ( Universidad Panamericana ) in 2017.

Since 2005, she has been working at the National Autonomous University of Guadalajara ( Universidad Panamericana ) in Guadalajara, Mexico, where she has served as a Research Professor in the School of Law and the Institute of Humanities. She is also a Level 1 member of the National System of Researchers (through Mexico’s National Council for Science and Technology).

He is an academic member of the Council for the Accreditation of Legal Education. He is a member of the Steering Committee of the Jalisco Chapter of the Mexican Bar Association, where he coordinates the Professional Ethics Commission. He has published articles in scientific journals indexed in Scopus. His research interests include professional ethics, professional regulation, and higher education.

Research Areas

• Teaching Professional Ethics and Law
• Regulation of the Legal Profession

Dr. Samuel Nucamendi is an industrial engineer who graduated from the Technological Institute of Tuxtla Gutiérrez (ITTG). He also holds a Master of Science in Quality and Productivity Systems, as well as a Doctorate in Engineering Sciences, both from the Tecnológico de Monterrey (ITESM) (including a doctoral research fellowship with the Intelligent Computing group at the University of La Laguna (ULL) in Spain). He also holds an international Six Sigma Black Belt certification from Breakthrough Management Group International (BMGI).

He currently serves as a tenured research professor (D) and head of the Academy of Operations in the School of Engineering at the Universidad Panamericana.

Dr. Nucamendi has been a member of the Mexican Operations Research Society (SMIO) since 2012, and since 2017, he has been a member of the National System of Researchers (SNI), currently at Level 1.

Research Areas

• Operations Department: Vehicle Routing
• Inventory Issues
• Decision-Making Support

Dr. Rómulo Ramírez Daza y García is a philosopher and a Level I member of the National System of Researchers. He holds a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, a master’s degree in philosophy from the University of Guadalajara, and a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Guanajuato, Mexico.

Since 2007, he has served as a professor and researcher at the Institute of Humanities at the Universidad Panamericana, Guadalajara campus (classified as a Tenured A Professor), where he also served as Secretary of Research from 2017 to 2023. In addition, he has been a B-level professor at the University of Guadalajara since 2009.

He is the author of three books and 50 scholarly publications, including articles and book chapters. His specialized research focuses on ancient philosophy and argumentation, with particular emphasis on Plato, Aristotle, their preceding traditions, and the reception of these two thinkers by later generations; he is also a renowned scholar of San Juan de la Cruz.

Finally, he is a member of the academic departments of Logic, Rhetoric, and Theory of Argumentation, as well as Religion and Society at the University of Guadalajara. He belongs to various international and national organizations, including the International Society for Greek Philosophy (Spain and Portugal), the Mexican Academy of Rhetoric at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, the Ibero-American Organization of Rhetoric, the Latin American Association of Ancient Philosophy, the Philosophical Association of Mexico, the Mexican Association of Classical Studies, and the Ibero-American Association of Argumentation.

Research Areas

• Ancient Philosophy
• Aristotle, Plato, and the Reception of These Thinkers
• Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

Professor Omar Rojas received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from La Trobe University in 2009. During his doctoral studies, he received the EIPRS and LTUPRS scholarships from the Australian government in recognition of his academic performance.

Since 2011, he has been working at the Universidad Panamericana in Guadalajara, Mexico, where he has served as a Full Professor (Level D) and Director of the Doctoral Program in Business Sciences. He is a member of the SNI, Level 1.

In 2016, he received the “Manuel López Cotilla” Award for Academic-Industry Research Merit, as well as the award for best paper in Economics and Business Management at CLADEA. In 2021, he was a visiting researcher at Airlangga University in Indonesia. In 2022, he served as General Chair of the Engaged Management Scholarship Conference.

He has authored dozens of articles in scientific journals indexed in Scopus. He has supervised doctoral, master’s, and specialized degree theses, as well as business projects. His research interests lie in applied mathematics.

Research Areas

• Data science
• Adaptive Systems
• Econometrics
• Applied Mathematics
• Operations Research

A food science professional with experience in quality and food safety systems. She began her career in food development research.

He earned a Ph.D. in higher education administration, focusing his work on the research area of higher education and employment.

Currently, his research focuses on the transition of college graduates into the workforce, approached from the perspective of social experience.

Research Areas

• Higher Education and Work

Ph.D. in Public Communication from the University of Navarra, Spain. Visiting professor and researcher at the College of Media & Communication, Texas Tech University, in the United States (2014–2015). She was a member of the National System of Researchers in Mexico (2008–2016). She is the author and co-author of scholarly publications related to the media and telecommunications industry in Mexico. Member of the Scientific Council of the Revista de Comunicación at the University of Piura, Peru, and of the Editorial Board of the journal *The International Media Management* (Routledge). She holds a specialization in Anthropology and Ethics, as well as a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and Finance from the Universidad Panamericana. She completed postdoctoral studies at the Institute for Media and Entertainment, now IESE, in New York. He is Mexico’s representative to the Digital News Report of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, based at the University of Oxford. He is a member of the Scientific Committee of the International Media Management Academic Association. He was appointed President of the World Media Economics and Management Conference (WME&MC) for the 2025–2027 term, with the School of Communication at the Universidad Panamericana serving as the host institution in 2027. 

She served as General Coordinator (2005–2009) and director of the School of Communication at the Universidad Panamericana, Guadalajara campus (2009–2010). She is currently the head of the Academy of Administration and Economics. 

Research Areas

• Media Industry
• Media Economics
• Leadership and Management of Media Companies

Luz María Álvarez Villalobos holds a Ph.D. and a Master’s degree in the History of Thought from the Universidad Panamericana, Mexico City Campus, and a Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy from the Universidad del Valle de Atemajac. She is a professor and researcher at the Institute of Humanities at the Universidad Panamericana, Guadalajara Campus, where she teaches philosophy and history courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels.

She was the founding coordinator of the Specialization in Anthropology and Ethics. She is a member of the Philosophical Association of Mexico and the Feminist Studies Research Group (GIEF).

He has published articles and book chapters and has served as a speaker at various national and international conferences. He occasionally contributes to the media (print, radio, and television) on topics related to his areas of research.

In his teaching practice, he incorporates textual and hermeneutic analysis, rigorous research, and philosophical reflection from a comprehensive humanistic perspective.

Research Areas

• New Spain Thought:
  • With a focus on Alonso de la Veracruz
  • The Aristotelian Reception in New Spain
  • The Philosophical Works of Karol Wojtyla.
• His academic work explores the roots of Aristotelian-Thomistic philosophy
  • Nominalism and Personalism in Relation to Philosophical Anthropology, Ethics, Contemporary Debates on Women and Feminism, and the Dialogue Between Christianity, Judaism, and Islam
• In addition, he specializes in the philosophical analysis of art films

Laura Yadira Munguía Ochoa holds a Ph.D. in Hispanic American Literature from the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (2015, Cum Laude), as well as master’s degrees in Mexican Literature (BUAP, Cum Laude, best thesis of 2007) and Mexican History from the University of Guadalajara. She also holds a Specialization in Anthropology and Ethics (Universidad Panamericana, Honorable Mention) and a Specialization in Teaching Competencies (Universidad Panamericana).

She serves as a full-time professor and researcher at the Institute of Humanities at the Universidad Panamericana , Guadalajara Campus, and as an adjunct professor in the Department of Hispanic Literature at the University of Guadalajara. She has been a Level I member of the National System of Researchers (SNII-CONAHCYT) since December 2019.

Her research focuses on New Spain literature, the works and reception of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, writing by women in convents in the American viceroyalties, Spanish and New Spain Golden Age theater, and the mechanisms of discursive control exercised by the Holy Office in New Spain.

He has conducted systematic research using primary sources from Inquisition archives, with a particular focus on petition files from the 17th and 18th centuries, offering fresh perspectives on the study of the body, language, and heterodoxy in colonial literary culture.

At the same time, he is pursuing a line of research on Gothic literature, horror films, and fantasy fiction in Mexico and Latin America, a line of research that is genealogically linked to the imagery of fear, surveillance, and punishment present in the writings of the New Spain Inquisition.

In conducting his research, he employs philological and historical-literary analysis, critical text editing, paleography, and direct work with primary archival sources, as well as search tools in international academic databases such as Scopus, Web of Science, Dialnet, and Redalyc.

His scholarly work has been published by internationally recognized publishers such as EUNSA (University of Navarra), Iberoamericana/Vervuert, Peter Lang, Louisiana State University Press, Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, Vaso Roto Ediciones, IDEA (Institute of Aurisecular Studies), and Editorial Universidad de Guadalajara, as well as in peer-reviewed journals indexed in Scopus, including *Hipogrifo*, *Edad de Oro*, and *Letras Históricas*. She serves as a peer reviewer for Scopus Q1 and Q2 journals.

Her primary goal as a researcher is to produce rigorous scholarship that engages with both the tradition of Hispanic philology and contemporary cultural studies, helping to highlight the intellectual richness of New Spain’s literary culture and to trace its echoes in contemporary Mexican literature and cinema.

He is a member of AITENSO, UC-Mexicanistas, the Association for Gender and Sexuality Studies, GEMELA, and the Mundo Novohispano Association. He also directs Editorial Kalmet, an independent publishing house specializing in genre literature and contemporary thought.

Research Areas

• Literature of New Spain
• Latin American Literature
• History
• Golden Age Literature
• 19th-Century Literature
• Fantasy Literature

Professor J. Enrique Núñez Ríos received his PhD in Systems Engineering from IPN in 2017 (graduated with honors). Since 2017 he has been working at Universidad Panamericana in Guadalajara, Mexico in the School of Economics and Business as Full Professor B (research emphasis).

He has collaborated in research projects with government agencies. In 2020 he was awarded The most innovative paper (Leeds Becket Business School). Member of SNI level 1 He has publications in scientific journals in Scopus and Web of Science such as: Cybernetics and Systems, Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management, Journal of Modelling in Management, Business Process Management Journal. His research interests are the application of problem structuring methods to organizational issues combining social network analysis and structural equation modeling.

Research Areas

• Applying Systems Thinking to Organizational Problems
• Developing Models to Promote Viability and Competitiveness in Organizations

Professor and researcher at the Institute of Humanities, he teaches History of Culture and Contemporary History in all careers since 2013. He advised and directed master's theses in Education at ITESM for 7 years. He has been dedicated to public and private education for 33 years, as a teacher and director of different educational institutions.

Worked at the Guadalajara City Hall and the SEJ for 10 years. Researcher in Education and History of Mexico and Spain. Published more than 20 articles on History and Education in prestigious journals and has been evaluator and reviewer of research articles. D. in Arts and Humanities from the University of Navarra (Pamplona, Spain), member of the SNI level I (National System of Researchers of Mexico), collaborates with some international research groups such as the Institute of Culture and Society of the University of Navarra (Spain) and the Institute of Culture and Society of the University of Navarra (Spain).

Research Areas

• Research Methodology and Educational Intervention
• History of Spain (Navarre)

Professor Jacqueline Yvette Sánchez García obtained her PhD degree in Systems Engineering from IPN in 2017 (graduated with honors). Since 2017 she has been working at Universidad Panamericana in Guadalajara (Mexico) for the Faculty of Economics and Business where she is Full Professor-Researcher B. He has participated in projects with UN agencies and universities abroad.

She currently collaborates as a professor in the Doctorate in Business Sciences. She is a SNI member, level 1, appointed by CONACyT. She has publications in scientific journals in Scopus and Web of Science such as: Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management, Cybernetics and Systems, Journal of Modelling in Management, Business Process Management Journal and Systemic Practice and Action Research. His research interests are related to the application of systems thinking, soft systems intervention in organizations through system dynamics.

Research Areas

• Science and System Dynamics
• Organizational Viability