Dr. Andrés Hernández Arana studied the Biochemical Engineering degree at the National School of Biological Sciences; He obtained a master's in chemistry and a doctorate in science (chemistry) at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM) Iztapalapa Campus.

At the UAM, he has been an academic secretary of the Basic Sciences and Engineering Division and Head of the Chemistry Department. He made a stay as a host researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, E.U.A., for a year. Under his direction, more than 13 students with Master's and more than 13 doctorates have graduated.

He is a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences, the American Chemical Society, and the Mexican Society of Biochemistry.

At the Department of Chemistry of the UAM Iztapalapa Campus, he promoted and encouraged the creation of a research group focused on the thermodynamic and kinetic stability of proteins, a group that was a pioneer in Mexico in this type of studies and, in general, in use of spectroscopic techniques (circular dichroism, fluorescence) and calorimetric in the research of biomacromolecule physicochemistry; In 1992, this group was officially constituted in the Biophysiochemistry area.

In this same university, he has participated in two academic commissions that achieved the creation of two institutional laboratories: the Divisional Laboratory (CBI) of nuclear magnetic resonance and the Interdivisional Laboratory (CBS, CBI) of mass spectrometry.


To date, he has published more than 70 research articles in journals of international circulation.