Professor Manuel Fernández-Guasti is a physicist graduated from the first generation of the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM), Iztapalapa Campus. He completed his doctorate in nonlinear optical phenomena at the Clarendon Laboratory; he was a member of the Christ Church College, Oxford, England. Upon his return to Mexico, he founded the Quantum Optics Laboratory in his alma mater where he currently works. He has been on sabbatical leave at Havana, Cuba (1993), Tonantzintla, Puebla (2002), Paris, France (2004), and UNAM, Mexico (2017).

He has promoted a balanced theoretical and experimental comprehensive training so that these two categories are diluted in a continuum. His interest has focused on some fundamental paradigms of physics: invariants and their relation to energy, ultra-brief optical phenomena, algebraic systems appropriate to describe time-space.

He has collaborated in the design and construction of lasers such as molecular Nitrogen, organic dyes, and Nd: YAG as well as holographic tables. He proposed the optical design of partially periodic instruments, work that led to a patent. He has promoted a close duality between fundamental and applied science. He is deeply interested and concerned that science serves primarily to contribute to a better world for humanity.