Professor José Alfredo Nateras Domínguez holds a Ph.D. and a Master's degree in Anthropological Sciences from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Iztapalapa Campus (UAM). He holds a Master's degree in Social Psychology from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), a specialty in Coordination of Operational Groups from the Escuela Interdisciplinaria de Aprendizaje y Comunicación Grupal (EIDAC), and a Bachelor's degree in Social Psychology from the UAM Iztapalapa Campus.

Among his academic activities, he currently works as a Full-Time Professor-Researcher Level C, at UAM Iztapalapa Campus, in addition to coordinating the Diploma Course "Youth Cultures. Theory and Research", at the same institution. He is a member of the Basic Core of the Graduate Program in Social Psychology (Master and Doctorate), Member of the College of Professors of the Bachelor's Degree in Social Psychology and Head of the Research Area "Collective Action and Emerging Identities", belonging to the UAM Iztapalapa Campus.

Throughout his academic training he has received awards and distinctions among which we can mention:
Honorable Mention in the Master's Degree in Social Psychology.
Medal for University Merit, for the best average of his generation in the Master's Degree in Social Anthropology.
University Merit Medal, for the best average of his generation in the Doctorate.
First place in the National Thesis Contest on Youth 2011, in the category Doctoral Thesis, conducted by the Mexican Institute of Youth.
Recognition of Full-Time Professors with Desirable Profile of the Teacher Improvement Program (PRODEP) from June 2021 to June 2023.
Member of the National System of Researchers Level II (SIN-II / 2021-2025), of the National Council of Science and Technology (CONACYT).

Dr. Nateras has had a recognized trajectory at national and international level, being invited professor in several universities in Central and South America, he has also published more than 100 articles in journals, books (coordinated and collective) and journalistic media, among which we can mention:

(2021) Territorios juveniles y Afectividades divergentes. Mexico: Ediciones del Lirio and UAM-I.

(2021) Juventudes sitiadas y Resistencias afectivas. Volume IV. Registros simbólicos (música, consumos, religión, amor). Mexico: Gedisa. UAM-I (IN PRESS).

(2019) with Salvador Cruz: Juventudes en fronteras. Identidades, cultura y violencia. Mexico: El Colef, Tijuana.

(2019) Juventudes sitiadas y Resistencias afectivas. Tomo III. Acción Colectiva e Identidades. Mexico: GEDISA/UAM-I.

(2016) Juventudes sitiadas y Resistencias afectivas. Tomo II. Problematizations (pregnancy/work/drugs/politics). Mexico: GEDISA/UAM-I.

(2016) Juventudes sitiadas y Resistencias afectivas. Tomo I. Violencias y Aniquilamiento. Mexico: GEDISA/UAM-I.

(2015) I live for my mother and die for my neighborhood. Meanings of violence and death in Barrio 18 and the Mara Salvatrucha. Mexico: Second Edition. TIRANT and UAM-I.

(2007) TKE? Artistas de la piel y decoración corporal en jóvenes. 2007. Mexico: Ed. Ríos de Tinta-Mexico. Ed. Tinta Blanca-Argentina.

(2002) Jóvenes, culturas e identidades urbanas. Miguel Ángel Porrúa. UAM-I. Mexico.

The lines of research in which he develops are: youth cultures and identities, the meanings of bodies, imaginaries of violence and death, social use of drugs and spaces of entertainment and transnational gangs.