Dr. Juan Manuel Hernández Vázquez is a Professor-Researcher in the Department of Sociology at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Unidad Iztapalapa. At this institution, he completed his studies in Mechanical Engineering and his Bachelor’s degree in Sociology, as well as his Master’s degree in Sociology of Work and his Ph.D. in Social Studies. He has been a member of Mexico's Sistema Nacional de Investigadoras e Investigadores (SNII) since 2009.

In public service and academic administration, he served as Deputy Director of Educational Indicators at the National Institute for the Evaluation of Education (INEE) and as coordinator of the Labor Studies track in the Master's and Doctoral Program in Social Studies at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana. During his institutional tenure, he contributed to the development of economic and social indicators of education for the educational indicator systems of both the INEE and the Ministry of Public Education (SEP).

His primary contributions to scholarship encompass research on the emergence of artificial intelligence in higher education, the outcomes of online education during the COVID-19 pandemic, university reform processes in Mexico, university dropout rates, the educational habitability of school spaces, job quality and precarious employment in Mexico, as well as the economic and social outcomes of the country's educational system.

In academic publishing, he has served on the editorial boards of the journal JOVENes, published by the Mexican Youth Institute (IMJUVE), and Polis México, a publication of the Department of Sociology at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Unidad Iztapalapa.