Professor José Arturo Aragón Lezama has a Bachelor's degree in Physics and Mathematics at the Escuela Superior de Física y Matemáticas (ESFyM) of the Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN), postgraduate studies in the Master of Science in the field of Materials Science, at the ESFyM of the IPN. He has the degree of Doctor in Materials Physics from the ESFyM of the IPN.

He also studied subjects of the Doctorate Program at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Céramique Industrielle in Limoges, France, and subjects of the Doctorate in Materials Sciences and Engineering at the Instituto de Investigación de Materiales, IIM, of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM).

He has carried out short research and development stays in metal-semiconductor solar cells at the Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Avanzados (CINVESTAV) of the IPN, on the behavior under impact tests of alloys rich in Zn, with Al and Cu, in the IIM of UNAM, and a stay as a visiting professor at this same Institute, conducting research and development of metal-ceramic composite sheets for special applications.

He has received more than 60 distinctions, consisting of the granting of the Scholarship for the Recognition of the Teaching Career, Scholarship for Support to Permanence and Stimulation of Outstanding Academic Career, awarded by the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM); Recognition for the Desirable Profile of Full-Time Teachers granted by PROMEP of the Subsecretaría de Educación Superior e Investigación Científica of the Secretaría de Educación Pública, and the Recognition "Outstanding Evaluation Year 2004", granted by the Centro de información Tecnológica, CIT, to have contributed in an outstanding way as arbitrator in the evaluation of articles for publication in the International Journal “Information Tecnológica”, La Serena, Chile.

The disciplinary areas of his research work are Materials Science, Physical Metallurgy, Materials Engineering, and Chemical Physics. His field of expertise is the development and characterization of new engineering materials, especially new non-ferrous alloys for structural purposes, bio-alloys, and cellular alloys; metal matrix composite materials with special properties (light, with behavior similar to porous metals and/or with applications in energy generation).

He has collaborated and directed research projects from 1999 to date in the Materials Science Area of the UAM Azcapotzalco Campus.

He was part of the group of researchers who developed and characterized the Zinalco alloy, proposed to replace the 6000 series aluminum in Mexico, used in the construction industry. He developed a composite material with a metal matrix-borosilicate spheres that has a mechanical behavior in compression similar to that of cellular (porous) alloys, and of high collapse stress, 10 to 15 times greater than the collapse stress of cellular metals. It implemented the process of manufacturing sheets or plates of the metal-NaCl composite material, which are proposed for the interchangeable replacement of plates in hydrogen cells and for obtaining very thin cell sheets.