Norman Aguilar Gallegos has held a Ph.D. since 2015 from the Center for Economic, Social, and Technological Research on Agroindustry and Global Agriculture (CIESTAAM) at the Autonomous University of Chapingo (UACh). In 2019, he completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands. In 2023, he joined the Guadalajara campus of the National Institute of Technology ( Universidad Panamericana) as a full-time professor and researcher. Prior to that, he had been engaged in research and teaching since 2015; from 2020 to 2023, he served as a professor and researcher at CIESTAAM–UACh.
He has been a member of the SNII since 2015—then known as SECIHTI—starting as a Candidate and subsequently obtaining and renewing Level 1 certification within that system.
His main research topics are: social network analysis, the diffusion and adoption of innovations, innovation networks and systems, the evaluation of social programs, multivariate statistical analysis, social network formation sites, and, more recently, text mining and big data. Although his work has been most extensively developed in the agricultural sector, his in-depth study of Social Network Analysis has allowed him to venture into other areas, such as tourism, data science, social network formation analysis platforms, and business and organizational studies; but also in the study of scientific collaboration, the analysis of bibliometric data, and the digital footprint researchers create when engaging with various online platforms. Among his skills, he has excelled in handling and analyzing large amounts of data, as well as managing network data from social media.
This has been reflected in the publication of various indexed scientific articles, books, and book chapters. He has given lectures at national and international conferences.
Research Areas
- Social Media Analysis
- Social Media Training Sites
- Text Mining
- Big data