Sustainable Development Goals
Research interests
• Physical Chemistry of Polymers
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Biomaterials
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Tissue Engineering
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Drug Delivery
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Modeling of Materials and Their Processes
Profile
Dr. Roberto Olayo González holds a Bachelor's degree in Physics from the Faculty of Sciences at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM, 1976), as well as a Master’s degree (1984) and a Ph.D. (1989) from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Unidad Iztapalapa in Mexico. He has completed research stays at the University of Minnesota (United States), the Universidad de Guanajuato (Mexico), and UNAM in Querétaro (Mexico). He is a Full Professor (Profesor Titular C) at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana and holds the rank of National Researcher Level III in Mexico's Sistema Nacional de Investigadoras e Investigadores (SNII).
His scholarly output includes over 130 publications, 10 patents, and more than 3,100 citations to his work. In higher education mentorship, he has supervised 17 Ph.D. dissertations, 25 Master's theses, and 13 undergraduate theses.
His primary research lines focus on polymer physical chemistry, biomaterials, tissue engineering, controlled drug delivery systems, and the modeling of materials and their processes.
In academic management and institutional leadership, he served as Head of the Polymer Section in the Department of Physics at UAM Iztapalapa across two terms (from 1989 to 1994, and from 2024 to the present), President of the Polymer Society of Mexico (1995–1997), Coordinator of the Undergraduate Program in Physics at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (1996–2000), and Head of the Department of Physics at UAM Iztapalapa (2002–2006).
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