Professor María De Lourdes Sandoval Martiñón is an Architect and Master in Design in the line Design, Planning and Conservation of Landscapes and Gardens by the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM) Azcapotzalco Campus.

Professor at UAM since 1991, she is responsible for the research group "Recreation and Environment" and the research laboratory "Recreation Observatory".

She has participated as a lecturer in national and international events, such as the Iberoamerican Congress of Sports and Recreational Facilities in Barcelona (2009), in the International Seminar of the Iberoamerican Association of Sports and Recreational Facilities in Venezuela (2010), in the 50th World Conference on Play of the International Play Association IPA in Cardiff, UK (2011), at the III Latin American Recreation Meeting in Cali, Colombia (2012), at the 23rd IAKS (Association of Sports and Recreational Facilities) Congress in Cologne, Germany (2013), at the Tecnodeporte Conference in Zaragoza, Spain (2016), at the V Latin American Recreation Meeting in Bogotá, Colombia (2016), at the IAKS-Latinoamerica Congress in Tegucigalpa, Honduras (2016) and Buenos Ares Argentina (2018).

She organized the IAKS-Latinoamerica International Seminar on Sports and Recreational Facilities Mexico 2014. He was a Member of the Citizen Observatory of Mexico City, (2008) in the table of "Maintenance of Public Spaces" and is currently Director of IAKS Mexico.

She has published the books:

- "Arquitectura: Una alternativa de enseñanza - análisis del sitio", in the volumes: SOL, SOL II, VIENTO y AGUA (winner of the UAM textbook award in 1999).
- "Recreation: A Case Study. La ciudad de México, 1930-1969" (2002).
- "Calidad de vida. Recreational spaces. Towards an integral planning - Azcapotzalco Delegation" (2010).
- "El juego en la calle. Time for recreation" (2019).

As well as articles in Memoirs of Congresses and seminars and in magazines such as Tiempo de Diseño, Revista Internacional de Diseño, Medio Ambiente y Sostenibilidad DISEÑOMAS and Revista Latinoamericana de Recreación. She is currently working on research on children's play spaces in Azcapotzalco, Mexico City.