Grissel Trujillo received her PhD degree in Biotechnology from Tecnológico de Monterrey, México in May 2014. During her doctoral studies, she conducted a significant part of her experimental work at Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II (Naples, Italy), were she was trained for eight months in Material Sciences at the laboratory of Professor Ernesto Di Maio and Professor Salvatore Iannace. 

She has 15 papers in Indexed International Journals, one book chapter, one granted Mexican patent, one patent application submitted and multiple participations in National and International Conferences. Her main area of interest and expertise is the design and fabrication of biomaterials suitable for high added value applications (i.e. biopharmaceutical engineering and tissue engineering). 

She has worked as a Research and Development Engineer at the Protein Research and Development Center at Tecnológico de Monterrey (Monterrey, México). Her master’s-degree research project was related to the development of a high-value probiotic product using sweet milk whey, a neglected by-product from cheese manufacturing. Her project resulted in the publication of a research paper in a high-reputation Journal, a book chapter and a Mexican patent (granted).

She recently made a Postdoctoral Research stay at Dr. Khademhosseini’s Lab (Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology) collaborating in several projects related with biomaterials, tissue engineering and point-of-care applications. 

In summary, during the recent years she has actively conducted research and technology development activities, and has published her work in international journals. Her immediate goal is to continue her training as a scientist in the fields of design of biomaterials for tissue engineering applications. She wants to significantly contribute to the development of fundamental knowledge and cutting-edge technology.

Biologist Pharmaceutical Chemist, UANL

Master of Science, Tecnológico de Monterrey

PhD in Science, Tecnológico de Monterrey

Prize "For Women in Science", conferred by L’Oréal-UNESCO-AMC-CONACyT. 2019

"Distinguished Citizen", conferred by the municipality of Matamoros, Mexico.

Circle of Distinguished Professors, conferred by the Tecnológico de Monterrey. 2018

María de Alva has a degree in Spanish Letters from Tec de Monterrey and a doctorate in Humanistic Studies with a specialty in Literature. She also holds two master's degrees, one in Latin American Studies with a specialty in literature and history from the University of California, Los Angeles (1993) and another from the Tec de Monterrey in Education with a specialty in Humanities (2000). Between 1993 and 1995, she worked as a reporter for the newspapers Reforma and El Norte.

She held the position of director of the Spanish Department of the Eugenio Garza Sada del Tec High School (1998 to 2008) where she coordinated the National Academy of Spanish for the Tec system, the OBI Higher Level Spanish program within the Tec System and participated in study plans on two occasions. Since 2008 to date, she is an associate professor of various subjects of Literature in the Department of Humanistic Studies. In 2015 she was appointed director of the Hispanic Literature career. She es currently the leader of the Passion for Reading Prorgram in Montrrey REgion and editorial director of Campus Cultural Magazine.

She has also participated in various academic congresses at institutions such as Cornell University, the Colegio de México, UNAM, Brown University, University of Texas, El Paso, among others, and has research publications in the Mexican Literature Magazine of the University of Texas and Providence College's INTI Journal of Hispanic Literature.

She has three published novels, Through the window (Planeta 2005), Before oblivion (Conarte NL; 2011) and What the river keeps (Planeta 2016). The first two were finalists for the Fernando Lara Prize in Spain. She has given literary creation workshops at the Casa de la Cultura de Nuevo León and helped at the Writers' Meetings of CONARTE, N.L. and in 2020 obtained the scholarship from the N.L. Creators System that this institution gives.

• Literary Criticism Seminar I
• Modern and contemporary Spanish literature
• Cinema, Literature and culture
• Introduction to the LLE career
• Introduction to professional life
• Literature and power in Latin America
• Cultural imaginaries of Mexico
• The myths that inhabit us: from Prometheus to Marvel

• PhD in Humanistic Studies, Tecnológico de Monterrey
• Master in Latin American Studies, UCLA
• Master in Education, Tecnológico de Monterrey
• Bachelor of Spanish Letters, Tecnológico de Monterrey

• Silence writing: Memory and resistance in Sylvia Molloy's novel, In prison brief. Journal of Hispanic Literature Inti. University of Connecticut (2012).
• Diario del Dolor de María Luisa Puga: pain threshold and temporal rupture in the Mexican Journal of Contemporary Literature, University of Texas, El Paso. July- September 2011.
• The boredom and violence in the destruction of space and society in three Mexican storytellers: Fabio Morábito, Luis Humberto Crosthwaite and Juan Villoro in Mexican Journal of Contemporary Literature, University of Texas, El Paso. July- September 2009.
• Narrating in front of the camera: reconstruction of historical relativity through a narration in the present in Bitter Wind by Beatriz Rivas in the Mexican Journal of Contemporary Literature, University of Texas, El Paso. July- September 2007.
• Memory and city: Reconstruction of identity through space and neo-baroque structure in And the land tremble at its centers by Gonzalo Celorio in Revista de Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea, University of Texas, El Paso. July- September 2004.

Two times Finalist in the Fernando Lara Novel Award in Spain (2004 and 2009).

María de Alva has a degree in Spanish Letters from Tec de Monterrey and a doctorate in Humanistic Studies with a specialty in Literature. She also holds two master's degrees, one in Latin American Studies with a specialty in literature and history from the University of California, Los Angeles (1993) and another from the Tec de Monterrey in Education with a specialty in Humanities (2000). Between 1993 and 1995, she worked as a reporter for the newspapers Reforma and El Norte.

She held the position of director of the Spanish Department of the Eugenio Garza Sada del Tec High School (1998 to 2008) where she coordinated the National Academy of Spanish for the Tec system, the OBI Higher Level Spanish program within the Tec System and participated in study plans on two occasions. Since 2008 to date, she is an associate professor of various subjects of Literature in the Department of Humanistic Studies. In 2015 she was appointed director of the Hispanic Literature career. She es currently the leader of the Passion for Reading Prorgram in Montrrey REgion and editorial director of Campus Cultural Magazine.

She has also participated in various academic congresses at institutions such as Cornell University, the Colegio de México, UNAM, Brown University, University of Texas, El Paso, among others, and has research publications in the Mexican Literature Magazine of the University of Texas and Providence College's INTI Journal of Hispanic Literature.

She has three published novels, Through the window (Planeta 2005), Before oblivion (Conarte NL; 2011) and What the river keeps (Planeta 2016). The first two were finalists for the Fernando Lara Prize in Spain. She has given literary creation workshops at the Casa de la Cultura de Nuevo León and helped at the Writers' Meetings of CONARTE, N.L. and in 2020 obtained the scholarship from the N.L. Creators System that this institution gives.

• Literary Criticism Seminar I
• Modern and contemporary Spanish literature
• Cinema, Literature and culture
• Introduction to the LLE career
• Introduction to professional life
• Literature and power in Latin America
• Cultural imaginaries of Mexico
• The myths that inhabit us: from Prometheus to Marvel

• PhD in Humanistic Studies, Tecnológico de Monterrey
• Master in Latin American Studies, UCLA
• Master in Education, Tecnológico de Monterrey
• Bachelor of Spanish Letters, Tecnológico de Monterrey

• Silence writing: Memory and resistance in Sylvia Molloy's novel, In prison brief. Journal of Hispanic Literature Inti. University of Connecticut (2012).
• Diario del Dolor de María Luisa Puga: pain threshold and temporal rupture in the Mexican Journal of Contemporary Literature, University of Texas, El Paso. July- September 2011.
• The boredom and violence in the destruction of space and society in three Mexican storytellers: Fabio Morábito, Luis Humberto Crosthwaite and Juan Villoro in Mexican Journal of Contemporary Literature, University of Texas, El Paso. July- September 2009.
• Narrating in front of the camera: reconstruction of historical relativity through a narration in the present in Bitter Wind by Beatriz Rivas in the Mexican Journal of Contemporary Literature, University of Texas, El Paso. July- September 2007.
• Memory and city: Reconstruction of identity through space and neo-baroque structure in And the land tremble at its centers by Gonzalo Celorio in Revista de Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea, University of Texas, El Paso. July- September 2004.

Two times Finalist in the Fernando Lara Novel Award in Spain (2004 and 2009).

Dr. Luis Fernández Carril served as technical secretary in the Special Committee on Climate Change of the Senate of the Republic. He is also a researcher on international climate policy in the Climate Change Research Program of the National Autonomous University of Mexico. In addition, he is a professor of Environmental Philosophy and Ethics at the Tecnológico de Monterrey, Puebla Campus.

He obtained a doctorate in Philosophy of Science in May 2014 from the Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico City Campus with an honorable mention of excellence. He has published articles and lectured nationally and internationally at renowned venues such as Oxford University and UNESCO in Paris. His main lines of research are: International environmental governance, international climate negotiations, and the ethics of climate change.

• Communication, Signs, and Signification
• Ethics, Profession and Citizenship
• Ethics, Self and Society
• Ethics, sustainability and social responsibility
• Humanities in the Anthropocene
• Mexican Identity and Culture
• Philosophy and Contemporary Thought
• Philosophy of Science
• Social Responsibility and Citizenship

• Doctorate in Humanistic Studies, Tecnológico de Monterrey
• Bachelor of Language Science

• The performance of innovation systems for the cases of Mexico and Korea in the context of knowledge societes. 2016
• Whose voices, whose choices? Pursuing climate resilient trajectories for the poor. Environmental Science and Policy. 121:18-23. 2021
• Turbulent transformation: abrupt societal disruption and climate resilient development. Climate and Development. 13:467-474. 2021

Dr. Luis Fernández Carril served as technical secretary in the Special Committee on Climate Change of the Senate of the Republic. He is also a researcher on international climate policy in the Climate Change Research Program of the National Autonomous University of Mexico. In addition, he is a professor of Environmental Philosophy and Ethics at the Tecnológico de Monterrey, Puebla Campus.

He obtained a doctorate in Philosophy of Science in May 2014 from the Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico City Campus with an honorable mention of excellence. He has published articles and lectured nationally and internationally at renowned venues such as Oxford University and UNESCO in Paris. His main lines of research are: International environmental governance, international climate negotiations, and the ethics of climate change.

• Communication, Signs, and Signification
• Ethics, Profession and Citizenship
• Ethics, Self and Society
• Ethics, sustainability and social responsibility
• Humanities in the Anthropocene
• Mexican Identity and Culture
• Philosophy and Contemporary Thought
• Philosophy of Science
• Social Responsibility and Citizenship

• Doctorate in Humanistic Studies, Tecnológico de Monterrey
• Bachelor of Language Science

• The performance of innovation systems for the cases of Mexico and Korea in the context of knowledge societes. 2016
• Whose voices, whose choices? Pursuing climate resilient trajectories for the poor. Environmental Science and Policy. 121:18-23. 2021
• Turbulent transformation: abrupt societal disruption and climate resilient development. Climate and Development. 13:467-474. 2021

Dr. Gabarrot coordinates the group of studies on corporeality and gender, which comprises students, teachers and researchers from different humanistic and social disciplines who consider the body and corporeality as the axis to reflect on complex contemporary violence from a critical feminist perspective.

Her line of research is Human Geography, since 1998 she has been working on the analysis of the links between the global and the local through the qualitative study of migration with a gender perspective. Since 2016 she has focused on studying the spaces of female corporality.

Currently, she teaches Sociology and Geopolitics classes at the undergraduate level, as well as the Seminar on Feminisms and Gender Perspective at the master's and doctorate levels at the Tecnológico de Monterrey. In July 2019, she taught the Space, Migrations and Gender summer course to undergraduate and graduate students at the Universidad de los Andes, Colombia.

Since 2017, she has been part of the work team that developed and monitors the protocol to prevent and address gender violence at Tec de Monterrey. Part of its activities in this regard is the training of teachers as well as collaborators, on gender issues at the national level.

She has a PhD degree by the School of Geography and Environment of the University of Oxford, England, with a specialty in Human Geography. Master's Degree in Social Sciences from the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO), Mexico headquarters. Bachelor's Degree in International Studies from the Universidad de Monterrey.

• Anthropology of the body
• Sociology
• Geopolitics
• Feminism and Gender Perspective Seminar

• PhD, School of Geography and Environment of the University of Oxford, England.
• Master's Degree in Social Sciences, Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO),
• Mexico headquarters Bachelor 's Degree in International Studies, Universidad de Monterrey.

• Gabarrot Arenas, M., (2018), "La comunidad de origen y los desafíos de la política social: Familia y migración en un municipio rural del sur de Nuevo León", en S. Arzaluz & E. Sandoval (Eds.), Cruces y retornos en la región del noreste mexicano en el alba del siglo XXI, Monterrey, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte.
• Gabarrot, M. (2016). Familias transnacionales y política social en las comunidades de origen: una visión cualitativa de la relación entre migración y desarrollo. Migración y desarrollo, 14(27), 139-165.
• Gabarrot, M. (2016), "Migration and Development: Thinking from the Communities of Origin", Practicing Anthropology, vol.38, no.1.
• Portales, L., & Gabarrot, M. (2015), "Alternativas para la comprensión de la pobreza: hogares y capital social en México ", Perfiles Latinoamericanos, vol.23, no.45.

Dr. Gabarrot coordinates the group of studies on corporeality and gender, which comprises students, teachers and researchers from different humanistic and social disciplines who consider the body and corporeality as the axis to reflect on complex contemporary violence from a critical feminist perspective.

Her line of research is Human Geography, since 1998 she has been working on the analysis of the links between the global and the local through the qualitative study of migration with a gender perspective. Since 2016 she has focused on studying the spaces of female corporality.

Currently, she teaches Sociology and Geopolitics classes at the undergraduate level, as well as the Seminar on Feminisms and Gender Perspective at the master's and doctorate levels at the Tecnológico de Monterrey. In July 2019, she taught the Space, Migrations and Gender summer course to undergraduate and graduate students at the Universidad de los Andes, Colombia.

Since 2017, she has been part of the work team that developed and monitors the protocol to prevent and address gender violence at Tec de Monterrey. Part of its activities in this regard is the training of teachers as well as collaborators, on gender issues at the national level.

She has a PhD degree by the School of Geography and Environment of the University of Oxford, England, with a specialty in Human Geography. Master's Degree in Social Sciences from the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO), Mexico headquarters. Bachelor's Degree in International Studies from the Universidad de Monterrey.

• Anthropology of the body
• Sociology
• Geopolitics
• Feminism and Gender Perspective Seminar

• PhD, School of Geography and Environment of the University of Oxford, England.
• Master's Degree in Social Sciences, Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO),
• Mexico headquarters Bachelor 's Degree in International Studies, Universidad de Monterrey.

• Gabarrot Arenas, M., (2018), "La comunidad de origen y los desafíos de la política social: Familia y migración en un municipio rural del sur de Nuevo León", en S. Arzaluz & E. Sandoval (Eds.), Cruces y retornos en la región del noreste mexicano en el alba del siglo XXI, Monterrey, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte.
• Gabarrot, M. (2016). Familias transnacionales y política social en las comunidades de origen: una visión cualitativa de la relación entre migración y desarrollo. Migración y desarrollo, 14(27), 139-165.
• Gabarrot, M. (2016), "Migration and Development: Thinking from the Communities of Origin", Practicing Anthropology, vol.38, no.1.
• Portales, L., & Gabarrot, M. (2015), "Alternativas para la comprensión de la pobreza: hogares y capital social en México ", Perfiles Latinoamericanos, vol.23, no.45.

Katherina Edith Gallardo Córdova is a teacher and researcher, member of the National System of Researchers (SNI - Level 1). She has a bachelor's degree in Pedagogy from the National Pedagogical Institute of Peru, a master's degree in Educational Psychology from the National Autonomous University of Mexico and a Doctorate in Innovation and Educational Technology from Tecnológico de Monterrey.

Her doctoral dissertation dealt with an investigation titled Competency-Based Education: Proposal for an Evaluation Model Based on the Theory of Experts and Novices and Applied to Excel Learning. Within her teaching role, she teaches courses related to technology and innovation in education and learning assessment. Her lines of research revolve around issues related mainly to the evaluation of distance learning and education.

• Technology and Innovation in Education
• Learning Assessment
• Educational Leadership and Management

• Doctorate in Innovation and Educational Technology, Tecnológico de Monterrey
• Master in Educational Psychology, UNAM
• Bachelor of Education, Instituto Pedagógico Nacional del Perú

• Gallardo, K. (2020). Competency-based assessment and the use of performance-based evaluation rubrics in higher education: Challenges towards the next decade. Problems of Education in the 21st Century, 78(1), 61-79.
• Vargas-Mendoza, L., Gallardo-Córdova, K.E. y Gómez-Muñoz, J.L. (2019). A learning environment to stimulate the development of competencies for mechanical design. Global Journal of Engineering Education GJEE, 21(1), 84-90. Disponible en:
• Elizondo, J.M, Schunn, C. y Gallardo, K. (2019). Quality of Peer Feedback in relation to Instructional Design: A Comparative Study in Energy and Sustainability MOOCs. International Journal of Instruction, 12(1), 1025-1040.
• Alderete Martínez, A. y Gallardo Córdova, K.E. (2018). Evaluación del Desempeño y Auténtica en el Modelo por Competencias en Secundaria: Un Estudio Mixto. REICE. Revista Iberoamericana sobre Calidad, Eficacia y Cambio en Educación, 16(3), 103-122.
• Rincón, E., Gallardo , K.E. & De la Fuente, J.M. (2018). Strengthening an educational innovation strategy: processes to improve gamification in Calculus course through performance assessment and meta-evaluation. International Electronic Journal of Mathematics Education 13(1), 1-11.

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Katherina Edith Gallardo Córdova is a teacher and researcher, member of the National System of Researchers (SNI - Level 1). She has a bachelor's degree in Pedagogy from the National Pedagogical Institute of Peru, a master's degree in Educational Psychology from the National Autonomous University of Mexico and a Doctorate in Innovation and Educational Technology from Tecnológico de Monterrey.

Her doctoral dissertation dealt with an investigation titled Competency-Based Education: Proposal for an Evaluation Model Based on the Theory of Experts and Novices and Applied to Excel Learning. Within her teaching role, she teaches courses related to technology and innovation in education and learning assessment. Her lines of research revolve around issues related mainly to the evaluation of distance learning and education.

• Technology and Innovation in Education
• Learning Assessment
• Educational Leadership and Management

• Doctorate in Innovation and Educational Technology, Tecnológico de Monterrey
• Master in Educational Psychology, UNAM
• Bachelor of Education, Instituto Pedagógico Nacional del Perú

• Gallardo, K. (2020). Competency-based assessment and the use of performance-based evaluation rubrics in higher education: Challenges towards the next decade. Problems of Education in the 21st Century, 78(1), 61-79.
• Vargas-Mendoza, L., Gallardo-Córdova, K.E. y Gómez-Muñoz, J.L. (2019). A learning environment to stimulate the development of competencies for mechanical design. Global Journal of Engineering Education GJEE, 21(1), 84-90. Disponible en:
• Elizondo, J.M, Schunn, C. y Gallardo, K. (2019). Quality of Peer Feedback in relation to Instructional Design: A Comparative Study in Energy and Sustainability MOOCs. International Journal of Instruction, 12(1), 1025-1040.
• Alderete Martínez, A. y Gallardo Córdova, K.E. (2018). Evaluación del Desempeño y Auténtica en el Modelo por Competencias en Secundaria: Un Estudio Mixto. REICE. Revista Iberoamericana sobre Calidad, Eficacia y Cambio en Educación, 16(3), 103-122.
• Rincón, E., Gallardo , K.E. & De la Fuente, J.M. (2018). Strengthening an educational innovation strategy: processes to improve gamification in Calculus course through performance assessment and meta-evaluation. International Electronic Journal of Mathematics Education 13(1), 1-11.

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