Alejandro is an MBA and PhD at Tecnológico de Monterrey. He researches communication and public opinion at the intersection of traditional and emerging media and is currently researching political discourse and propaganda in social media. His interests are e-Democracy, Digital Culture, Internet & Human Rights. Alejandro has over a decade of experience in the broadcast industry, serving as executive producer. He holds degrees in engineering and law. The App Date and Apuntes de Rabona Founding Partner.

• PhD in Humanistic Studies, Tecnológico de Monterrey
• Master in Political Analysis and Information Media, Tecnológico de Monterrey

PhD Philosophy specialized in Language and Literature, graduated from the doctoral program of the Department of Hispanic Studies of Texas A&M University with the thesis “Historicity and writing in the journalistic essay in Mexico: The case of Salvador Elizondo”; Degree in Spanish Letters from the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León.

He studies digital humanities, essays and the relationship between literature and journalism, topics with which he has participated in international academic conferences and publications. He collaborated in the Cervantes Project of the Department of Hispanic Studies, in an interdisciplinary group, contributing in bibliography and digital iconography, as well as in a variorum edition of Don Quixote.

He has practiced cultural and scientific journalism and has been a publisher of books and newspapers in Mexico. He is an associate member of the Mexican Network of Science Journalists and the World Federation of Science Journalists.

• Narrative structures
• Cinema, literature and culture

• Doctor of Philosophy, Texas A&M University
• Bachelor of Spanish Letters, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León

• Muñiz Apresa, José Miguel: “The Open Source as a Technological Solution for the Development of Digital Libraries: The Cervantes Project CIBO Constructed With Bibus Bibliographic Database”. ICERI2012 Proceedings. Madrid, España. IATED, 2012. 1724-30. 5th International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation.
• Urbina, Eduardo, Víctor Agosto, Miguel Muñiz, Elena K. Tillman, Fernando González Moreno, Richard Furuta, Jie Deng, Steven E. Smith y Stephanie Elmquist. “Visual Readings: Textual Iconography and Digital Archive of the Quixote at the Cervantes Project”. Studies in Spanish Literature in Honor of Daniel Eisenberg. Newark, Del.: Juan de la Cuesta, 2009. 363-85. Print. Series Homenajes 31.
• Alhoori, Hamed, Omar Álvarez, Richard Furuta, Miguel Muñiz, y Eduardo Urbina. “Supporting the Creation of Scholarly Bibliographies by Communities through Online Reputation Based Social Collaboration”. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 2009, 180-91. Print. Book Series. Volume 5714.
• Curry, Rick, Miguel Zárate, y José Miguel Muñiz-Apresa. “New Mexican Cinema, A Marketing Idea: An Interview With Mexican Filmmaker Carlos Bolado”. Cine y…: Revista de Estudios Interdisciplinarios Sobre Cine en Español 1(1). (2008): 91-119. Print.
• Urbina, Eduardo, Fernando González Moreno, Richard Furuta, Jie Deng, Steven E. Smith, Víctor Agosto, Miguel Muñiz y Stephanie Elquist. “Don Quixote Illustrated: An International Digital Humanities Project.” ICERI2008 Proceedings. Madrid, España: IATED, November 2008. 1st International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation.

PhD Philosophy specialized in Language and Literature, graduated from the doctoral program of the Department of Hispanic Studies of Texas A&M University with the thesis “Historicity and writing in the journalistic essay in Mexico: The case of Salvador Elizondo”; Degree in Spanish Letters from the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León.

He studies digital humanities, essays and the relationship between literature and journalism, topics with which he has participated in international academic conferences and publications. He collaborated in the Cervantes Project of the Department of Hispanic Studies, in an interdisciplinary group, contributing in bibliography and digital iconography, as well as in a variorum edition of Don Quixote.

He has practiced cultural and scientific journalism and has been a publisher of books and newspapers in Mexico. He is an associate member of the Mexican Network of Science Journalists and the World Federation of Science Journalists.

• Narrative structures
• Cinema, literature and culture

• Doctor of Philosophy, Texas A&M University
• Bachelor of Spanish Letters, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León

• Muñiz Apresa, José Miguel: “The Open Source as a Technological Solution for the Development of Digital Libraries: The Cervantes Project CIBO Constructed With Bibus Bibliographic Database”. ICERI2012 Proceedings. Madrid, España. IATED, 2012. 1724-30. 5th International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation.
• Urbina, Eduardo, Víctor Agosto, Miguel Muñiz, Elena K. Tillman, Fernando González Moreno, Richard Furuta, Jie Deng, Steven E. Smith y Stephanie Elmquist. “Visual Readings: Textual Iconography and Digital Archive of the Quixote at the Cervantes Project”. Studies in Spanish Literature in Honor of Daniel Eisenberg. Newark, Del.: Juan de la Cuesta, 2009. 363-85. Print. Series Homenajes 31.
• Alhoori, Hamed, Omar Álvarez, Richard Furuta, Miguel Muñiz, y Eduardo Urbina. “Supporting the Creation of Scholarly Bibliographies by Communities through Online Reputation Based Social Collaboration”. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 2009, 180-91. Print. Book Series. Volume 5714.
• Curry, Rick, Miguel Zárate, y José Miguel Muñiz-Apresa. “New Mexican Cinema, A Marketing Idea: An Interview With Mexican Filmmaker Carlos Bolado”. Cine y…: Revista de Estudios Interdisciplinarios Sobre Cine en Español 1(1). (2008): 91-119. Print.
• Urbina, Eduardo, Fernando González Moreno, Richard Furuta, Jie Deng, Steven E. Smith, Víctor Agosto, Miguel Muñiz y Stephanie Elquist. “Don Quixote Illustrated: An International Digital Humanities Project.” ICERI2008 Proceedings. Madrid, España: IATED, November 2008. 1st International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation.

Classical guitarist and composer born in the city of Puebla, Mexico. He began his initial level studies in classical guitar at the Universidad Veracruzana. Later, he obtained a scholarship to pursue a Bachelor of Music, with a specialty in classical guitar at the University of the Americas-Puebla. He is a Master in Aesthetics and Art from the BUAP and a Doctor in Creation and Theory of Culture from the UDLAP, and is currently studying a Master's Degree in Composition at the Faculty of Music of the UNAM.

In 2009, his career took a turn towards the composition of contemporary music and since then his works have been presented in various forums and national and international festivals, have been performed by prominent soloists and groups and have been directed by important conductors. Recently, he has dabbled in creating music for video games, making the music for the Greak game, Memories of Azur, for the Nintendo Switch.

• PhD in Creation and Theory of Culture, UDLAP
• Master in Composition, UNAM
• Bachelor of Music, UDLAP

• First Place in the 6th International String Quartet Composition Competition, FONCA.
• First place in the 3rd National Composition Contest "Manuel M. Ponce", Federal
• Secretariat of Culture, INBA and Government of the State of Zacatecas.

Classical guitarist and composer born in the city of Puebla, Mexico. He began his initial level studies in classical guitar at the Universidad Veracruzana. Later, he obtained a scholarship to pursue a Bachelor of Music, with a specialty in classical guitar at the University of the Americas-Puebla. He is a Master in Aesthetics and Art from the BUAP and a Doctor in Creation and Theory of Culture from the UDLAP, and is currently studying a Master's Degree in Composition at the Faculty of Music of the UNAM.

In 2009, his career took a turn towards the composition of contemporary music and since then his works have been presented in various forums and national and international festivals, have been performed by prominent soloists and groups and have been directed by important conductors. Recently, he has dabbled in creating music for video games, making the music for the Greak game, Memories of Azur, for the Nintendo Switch.

• PhD in Creation and Theory of Culture, UDLAP
• Master in Composition, UNAM
• Bachelor of Music, UDLAP

• First Place in the 6th International String Quartet Composition Competition, FONCA.
• First place in the 3rd National Composition Contest "Manuel M. Ponce", Federal
• Secretariat of Culture, INBA and Government of the State of Zacatecas.

Master of Science in Communication with a Specialty in Documentary Audiovisual Production from the Tecnológico de Monterrey. Graduated in Communication Sciences from the Tecnológico de Monterrey with studies in Native American Cinema and Social Theory and Cultural Analysis from the University of California at Berkeley.

He is a member of the Academic Aspects Team of the Bachelor of Communication and National Design Leader of the Training Units: AV1001B Audiovisual Narrative, AV2001B Audio, video and digital design production and AV2003B Documentary Narrative.

He has been Coordinator of the Concentration in Film Studies, the Concentration in Film Production and Direction and the Concentration in Digital Media Production at the Mexico City Campus. He teaches courses in Audiovisual Narrative, Documentary Narrative and History and Theory of Documentary Cinema.

For 4 years he was Account Director in Latin America for MOFILM, leading the production of advertising campaigns for brands such as Coca Cola, Chevrolet, Nescafé and Kleenex.

• Audiovisual Narrative
• Documentary Narrative
• History and Theory of Documentary Cinema

• Master of Science in Communication, Tecnológico de Monterrey.
• Bachelor of Communication Sciences, Tecnológico de Monterrey with studies in Native American Cinema and Social Theory and Cultural Analysis from the University of California at Berkeley.

Master of Science in Communication with a Specialty in Documentary Audiovisual Production from the Tecnológico de Monterrey. Graduated in Communication Sciences from the Tecnológico de Monterrey with studies in Native American Cinema and Social Theory and Cultural Analysis from the University of California at Berkeley.

He is a member of the Academic Aspects Team of the Bachelor of Communication and National Design Leader of the Training Units: AV1001B Audiovisual Narrative, AV2001B Audio, video and digital design production and AV2003B Documentary Narrative.

He has been Coordinator of the Concentration in Film Studies, the Concentration in Film Production and Direction and the Concentration in Digital Media Production at the Mexico City Campus. He teaches courses in Audiovisual Narrative, Documentary Narrative and History and Theory of Documentary Cinema.

For 4 years he was Account Director in Latin America for MOFILM, leading the production of advertising campaigns for brands such as Coca Cola, Chevrolet, Nescafé and Kleenex.

• Audiovisual Narrative
• Documentary Narrative
• History and Theory of Documentary Cinema

• Master of Science in Communication, Tecnológico de Monterrey.
• Bachelor of Communication Sciences, Tecnológico de Monterrey with studies in Native American Cinema and Social Theory and Cultural Analysis from the University of California at Berkeley.

Carolina Sacristán Ramírez is a lecturer at the School of Humanities and Education at Tecnológico de Monterrey Campus Puebla. She has a doctorate in Art History from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and a harpsichordist graduated from the “Arrigo Pedrollo” Conservatory of Vicenza, Italy.

She was Visiting Scholar at the Blanton Museum of Art and LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections, both belonging to the University of Texas at Austin. Her research, which explores the links between visual culture and sound culture, has been funded by the Thoma Art Foundation and CONACYT. She has published several articles along these lines, including “Audible Paintings: Religious Music and Devotion to the Infancy of Christ in the Art of the Viceroyalty of Peru” (2019), which appeared in MAVCOR Journal, a magazine sponsored by Yale University.

Since 2010, she has been a member of the Seminary of Music in New Spain and Independent Mexico based at the Institute of Aesthetic Research of the UNAM. She collaborates in the project "Catalogue of music books and papers of the Archive of the Cabildo Metropolitan Cathedral of Mexico", in which he was co-responsible for the electronic catalog Musicat-ADABI available in the Turriana Library of Mexico City. She currently participates in projects aimed at the dissemination of the humanities and the arts through the use of technological resources.

• Doctorate in Art History, UNAM
• Harpsichordist, Arrigo Pedrollo Conservatory

Speaker at the Congress Experiences and challenges of research in music at the Universidad Juárez del Estado de Durango. November 2020.

Speaker at the 10th Conference on History. Making history from the ENAH, from the National School of Anthropology and History. September 2019.

Speaker at the First Thoma Scholars Seminar congress, of the Center for Latin American Visual Studies, University of Texas at Austin. March 2018.

Speaker at the Annual Conference of the International Society for Cultural History at Umeå University. June 2017.

Speaker at the International Colloquium Celebration and sound in the cathedrals of New Spain of the Escuela Nacional de Estudios Superiores Unidad Morelia-UNAM. August 2014.

Carolina Sacristán Ramírez is a lecturer at the School of Humanities and Education at Tecnológico de Monterrey Campus Puebla. She has a doctorate in Art History from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and a harpsichordist graduated from the “Arrigo Pedrollo” Conservatory of Vicenza, Italy.

She was Visiting Scholar at the Blanton Museum of Art and LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections, both belonging to the University of Texas at Austin. Her research, which explores the links between visual culture and sound culture, has been funded by the Thoma Art Foundation and CONACYT. She has published several articles along these lines, including “Audible Paintings: Religious Music and Devotion to the Infancy of Christ in the Art of the Viceroyalty of Peru” (2019), which appeared in MAVCOR Journal, a magazine sponsored by Yale University.

Since 2010, she has been a member of the Seminary of Music in New Spain and Independent Mexico based at the Institute of Aesthetic Research of the UNAM. She collaborates in the project "Catalogue of music books and papers of the Archive of the Cabildo Metropolitan Cathedral of Mexico", in which he was co-responsible for the electronic catalog Musicat-ADABI available in the Turriana Library of Mexico City. She currently participates in projects aimed at the dissemination of the humanities and the arts through the use of technological resources.

• Doctorate in Art History, UNAM
• Harpsichordist, Arrigo Pedrollo Conservatory

Speaker at the Congress Experiences and challenges of research in music at the Universidad Juárez del Estado de Durango. November 2020.

Speaker at the 10th Conference on History. Making history from the ENAH, from the National School of Anthropology and History. September 2019.

Speaker at the First Thoma Scholars Seminar congress, of the Center for Latin American Visual Studies, University of Texas at Austin. March 2018.

Speaker at the Annual Conference of the International Society for Cultural History at Umeå University. June 2017.

Speaker at the International Colloquium Celebration and sound in the cathedrals of New Spain of the Escuela Nacional de Estudios Superiores Unidad Morelia-UNAM. August 2014.

"The main challenge of my profession is to find the appropriate scale to study urban phenomena and obtain specialized databases."

The public policy of cities, the interaction between transport, land use, and poverty, in particular, is one of Roberto Ponce López areas of interest. Another one is urban information systems, that is, the use of artificial intelligence databases to design future scenarios in cities. 

Some of the projects led by Roberto Ponce are Mexicovid19, a website to track infection figures, the Urban Information System, the development in Monterrey city, which estimates the growth of the city's urban sprawl and the costs it implies for public finances, among others. Dr. Ponce is the leader in the Urban Development Plan in the Port of Veracruz, which consists of supporting the municipality to update urban planning instruments, and participates in the Fake News and Social Networks Detection project.

From his profession, he likes the interdisciplinarity offered by his area of research and by institutions such as Tecnológico de Monterrey. The problems in cities are complex and require the participation of experts from different fields. At Tecnológico de Monterrey, he collaborates with sociologists, architects, and engineers from other schools. 

During Felipe Calderón's election campaign, Ponce López was in charge of the spatial analysis area. Afterward, he worked for three years in the Office of Public Opinion, in charge of geostatistics and digital mapping. He claims that the new technologies and databases, such as the ones in cell phones and GPS trackers, are hard to obtain. However, for the first time in history, they allow exploring the interaction between the physical environment of the cities and social variables such as poverty or consumption with great temporary and spatial detail. 

From his point of view, one of the challenges in his profession is the fact that very little is understood about human behavior in cities, and, therefore, there are still many questions to be made.
 

• Advanced Methods for Strategic Prospective and Future Studies
• Advanced Strategic Prospective Models and Future Studies
• Citizenship and Smart Cities
• Emergent Issues in Public Policy
• Emerging topics on strategic foresight
• Integrative Project
• Principles of Programming for the Social Sciences
• Research Methods
• Scenario Modeling
• Technological Tools for the Social Sciences

• Identifying and characterizing popular non-work destinations by clustering cellphone and point-of-interest data.  Cities.  113. 2021.
• Identifying spatio-temporal hotspots of human activity that are popular non-work destinations.  Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science.  48:433-448. 2021.
• A framework to generate virtual cities as sandboxes for land use-transport interaction models.  Journal of Transport and Land Use.  14:303-323. 2021 

• PhD in Urban Information Systems, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
• MSc Political Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)
• Bachelor’s Degree Political Science, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM)