Leonardo Ramos-Umaña holds a Master’s degree and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Between 2010 and 2011, he completed a research fellowship at the University of Navarra in Pamplona, Spain, an experience he repeated between 2014 and 2015. In 2017, he received the Mexican Philosophical Association (AFM) Award for the best doctoral dissertation in Philosophy in all of Mexico. Since then, he has been a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Classical Studies of the Institute for Philological Research (2019–2021) and at the Institute for Philosophical Research (2023–2026) at UNAM.
He is a Level I member of the National System of Researchers (SNII), a member of the Latin American Association of Ancient Philosophy (ALFA), and a member of the University Seminar on Affectivity and Emotions (SUAFEM) at UNAM. He is also a co-founder of Eupraxía: a seminar on ethics and affectivity in antiquity.
He has given more than 40 lectures in various countries in Latin America, as well as more than 100 courses and seminars at the undergraduate and graduate levels at various universities in the Valley of Mexico, Colombia, and Spain.
He is the author of various scholarly articles, most of which are devoted to explaining the ethical proposals of Aristotle, several Stoic thinkers, and Diogenes the Cynic, among other schools of thought and controversial ideas from antiquity. He has served as editor of two recently published books: a monograph on Aristotelian ethics (Aristotle’s Eudemian Ethics, Books I and II: Interpretive Essays, UASLP , 2024) and a book that explores philosophical ideas through the examination of elements of pop culture (Thinking and Philosophizing Through Pop Culture, UNAM, 2026).
He has also published, through the publishers Santillana and Hachette, about ten textbooks on Ethics, Philosophical Thought and Humanism, Philosophical Doctrines, and Ethics and Civics for the various humanities courses taught in high schools and middle schools throughout Mexico.
His current areas of research include the practical philosophy of Plato and Aristotle, the various ethical schools of Hellenistic Greece (hedonism, Cynicism, Epicureanism, and early Stoicism), and the practical philosophy of Roman Stoicism. He currently teaches at the UNAM School of Philosophy and Letters at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.