"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)

"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)

"Ever since I started in the music business in 1971, our industry has been changing at high speed. What endures is the drive to create, experience, send and receive music or music events."

Music has always been a part of Allan Marc Tucker, who started using a record turntable when he was just 2 years old: he put the records in place, played them, and of course, danced to them. He studied clarinet, then guitar; he had a brief career as a recording artist and studio session musician, focused on recording and producing his own songs. 

His plan to study audio engineering was to learn enough to find a job in a recording studio while he tried to become a rock-star. Instead, he found great satisfaction in expressing his creativity as an engineer, helping other artists to reach their goals in the studio. 

Tucker's career in music production continues after more than 50 years and, although he has recorded and mastered more than 3,500 records and has won the most relevant awards in his profession, including Grammys and Gold Records, he has found that working as a full-time professor and heading the Music Technology and Production program (IMI-LTM) has been his most rewarding and meaningful stage. 

Sharing his stories, techniques, theories, accomplishments and failures with his students is his way to make sure he is contributing to the development of the future problem-solvers of the music industry. He teaches students to listen in a critical way, to evaluate the creative and technical quality of interpretations, to give shape to music, understanding the artists' concepts and intent, and to make use of the correct tools, and always to take the audience into account, without whom they would not have any work at all.

• Audio Mastering
• Recording Techniques

• Bachelor of Arts, CUNY

• 26 Grammy nominations, conferred by Recording Academy (NARAS), 2020
• Who's Who in the USA, conferred by Marquis' Who's Who, 2010
• Certified "Mastered for iTunes", conferred by Apple Inc., 2010
• Who's Who in the World, conferred by Marquis' Who's Who, 2009
• Grammy - Ravi Coltrane, conferred by Recording Academy (NARAS), 2007
• Chairman, conferred by Audio Engineering Society, 2004
• Grammy - Joe Henderson, conferred by Recording Academy (NARAS), 2003
• Grammy - John Coltrane, conferred by Recording Academy (NARAS), 2001
• Grammy - Gonzalo Rubalcaba, conferred by Recording Academy (NARAS), 2001
• Grammy - Gil Evans, conferred by Recording Academy (NARAS), 1996
• Visionary Award - Christian McBride, conferred by 3M Corporation, 1996
• Visionary Award - Joe Henderson, conferred by 3M Corporation, 1995
• Grammy award - Metallica, conferred by Recording Academy (NARAS), 1992
• Record of the Year - Ursula Oppens "The People United", conferred by Billboard Magazine, 1979
   

"Ever since I started in the music business in 1971, our industry has been changing at high speed. What endures is the drive to create, experience, send and receive music or music events."

Music has always been a part of Allan Marc Tucker, who started using a record turntable when he was just 2 years old: he put the records in place, played them, and of course, danced to them. He studied clarinet, then guitar; he had a brief career as a recording artist and studio session musician, focused on recording and producing his own songs. 

His plan to study audio engineering was to learn enough to find a job in a recording studio while he tried to become a rock-star. Instead, he found great satisfaction in expressing his creativity as an engineer, helping other artists to reach their goals in the studio. 

Tucker's career in music production continues after more than 50 years and, although he has recorded and mastered more than 3,500 records and has won the most relevant awards in his profession, including Grammys and Gold Records, he has found that working as a full-time professor and heading the Music Technology and Production program (IMI-LTM) has been his most rewarding and meaningful stage. 

Sharing his stories, techniques, theories, accomplishments and failures with his students is his way to make sure he is contributing to the development of the future problem-solvers of the music industry. He teaches students to listen in a critical way, to evaluate the creative and technical quality of interpretations, to give shape to music, understanding the artists' concepts and intent, and to make use of the correct tools, and always to take the audience into account, without whom they would not have any work at all.

• Audio Mastering
• Recording Techniques

• Bachelor of Arts, CUNY

• 26 Grammy nominations, conferred by Recording Academy (NARAS), 2020
• Who's Who in the USA, conferred by Marquis' Who's Who, 2010
• Certified "Mastered for iTunes", conferred by Apple Inc., 2010
• Who's Who in the World, conferred by Marquis' Who's Who, 2009
• Grammy - Ravi Coltrane, conferred by Recording Academy (NARAS), 2007
• Chairman, conferred by Audio Engineering Society, 2004
• Grammy - Joe Henderson, conferred by Recording Academy (NARAS), 2003
• Grammy - John Coltrane, conferred by Recording Academy (NARAS), 2001
• Grammy - Gonzalo Rubalcaba, conferred by Recording Academy (NARAS), 2001
• Grammy - Gil Evans, conferred by Recording Academy (NARAS), 1996
• Visionary Award - Christian McBride, conferred by 3M Corporation, 1996
• Visionary Award - Joe Henderson, conferred by 3M Corporation, 1995
• Grammy award - Metallica, conferred by Recording Academy (NARAS), 1992
• Record of the Year - Ursula Oppens "The People United", conferred by Billboard Magazine, 1979
   

Dr. Luz María Martínez Calderón graduated with honors from Tecnológico de Monterrey with a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry and obtained her Ph.D. in Chemistry from Arizona State University. She is currently Research Professor at the Department of ​​Chemistry and Nanotechnology at the Tecnológico de Monterrey, Monterrey campus, and participates as an adjunct professor in the Department of Chemistry at Rice University.

Her research lines include: Design and construction of portable instruments for thermal and structural characterization, Preparation and characterization of micro and Nano-dispersions of thermally stable amorphous drugs to improve solubility and bioavailability of poorly soluble active principles, Evaluation of therapeutic efficiency of new pharmaceutical formulations in the form of co-amorphous and co-crystalline formulations with potential applications in the treatment of high incidence diseases (hypertension-hypercholesterolemia-diabetes) and Stabilization and thermal characterization of active principles and biomolecules with applications in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry.

In terms of attracting funds and research projects, Dr. Martínez has served as coordinator and head of projects such as "Estudio de las transiciones de fase e interacciones intermoleculares en sistemas binarios en función de su composición y temperatura", funded by the call of Ciencia Básica SEP-CONACyT 2016-2020, "Estudio del mecanismo de preservación de biomoléculas de través de la generación de matrices vítreas de azúcares no reductores", funded by the call of Ciencia Básica SEP-Conacyt-2008, the educational Innovation project "Construyendo nuestros instrumentos de Medición: Construcción y uso de instrumentos de caracterización térmica de materiales. Do it yourself", funded by the NOVUS 2012 call for Educational Innovation and "Optimización de procesos de preservación de biomoléculas", funded by the Zambrano-Hellion Fund.

Dr. Martínez has generated knowledge through the direction of more than 30 undergraduate and graduate thesis projects; her scientific contributions have been published in indexed journals such as Journal of Chemical Education, Thermochimica Acta, Biopolymers, Nature, International Journal of pharmaceutics, Molecules, European Journal of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics, among others. She has been a member of the steering committee of the Consejo Nacional de la Enseñanza de las Ciencias Químicas A.C. from 2011 to 2017 and is a member of the AAPS (American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists) and the ACS (American Chemical Society).

She worked in the industrial sector developing analytical techniques to measure physicochemical properties of glass. As a result, she received recognition for her contribution to Technological Development in VITRO.

• Analysis of Properties and Transformation of Matter
• Analysis of the Transformation of Matter in Chemical Processes
• Chemical Research
• Chemistry
• Directed Study
• Doctoral Defense
• Doctoral Research
• Foundation of the Structure and Transformation of Matter
• Guided Research
• Integration Project in Chemistry and Nanotechnology
• Introduction to Chemical Research
• Research Internship
• Research Project in Chemistry and Nanotechnology
• Research Proposal

• Nano and micro dispersions of two-phase amorphous-amorphous drug formulations as strategy to enhance solubility of pharmaceuticals. Materials Today: Proceedings 13, pp. 390-396 (2019)
• Roles of Undergraduate Students: Trainee, Tutor and Designer" International Journal on Interactive Design and Manufacturing (IJIDeM) 13(4), pp. 1457-1467 (2019) 
• "Highly Soluble Glimepiride and Irbesartan Co-amorphous Formulation with Potential Application in Combination Therapy" (AAPS PharmSciTech 20(4),144 1-12 (2019)
• "Co-Amorphous Simvastatin-Nifedipine with Enhanced Solubility for Possible Use in Combination Therapy of Hypertension and Hypercholesterolemia" Molecules, 23, 2161 (2018)
• "Two-phase amorphous-amorphous solid drug dispersion with enhanced stability, solubility and bioavailability; resulting from ultrasonic dispersion of an immiscible system" European Journal of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics, 119 243-252 (2017) 

More publications

• Doctor of Chemistry, Arizona State University
• Bachelor of Chemical Sciences, Tecnológico de Monterrey

• National Award " Inspiring Profesor", for Research and Graduate (2016 y 2020)
• MUJER-TEC-2013 (Mentoring category)
• Distinguished Novus-Professor (distinction for profile as an innovator in education)
• Excellence in Honors Teaching Award
• Mexican Researcher Certification - Level 1 (Martínez-Calderón, Luz María)