Dr. José Luis Hernández Ávila is an Electrical Engineer from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Azcapotzalco Campus (1991). In 1992, he obtained the Diplôme d’Études Approfondies en Genie Éléctrique from the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG) in France. Subsequently in 1996, he obtained his Doctorate degree in Physics from the Université Joseph Fourier-Grenoble I, France. He belongs to the Sistema Nacional de Investigadoras e Investigadores SNII, level I. He also has Perfil del Programa para el desarrollo Profesional Docente (PRODEP).

In 1996, he joined the UAM as a Guest Professor, a year later he obtained his permanent position as full time Profesor-Investigator. Currently, he has the level Titular C, assigned to the Department of Energy of the Division of Basic Sciences and Engineering. He teaches in the Electrical Engineering degree, teaching courses on Alternating Current Circuit Theory, Electromagnetic Theory and Electromagnetism Laboratory, as well as High Voltage Techniques. He is a founding professor of the Master of Science in Electromagnetic Engineering. Not only that, but he worked at the company Balteau S.A. in the Engineering Area on the design and creation of measurement transformers, in medium and high voltage.

His published scientific work includes 34 articles in a rigorous international refereed journal (JCR) with 867 citations in Google Academic. He has 9 refereed technical articles, 4 book chapters and more than 140 publications in memory of international and national refereed conferences. He has written 9 dissemination articles and carried out more than 100 dissemination and dissemination presentations on his research work. His scientific and technological interests include the study of basic processes of electrical discharges in gases and gas mixtures (Gas Electronics) with applications in the replacement of greenhouse gases. Technological applications of cold plasma in anti-pollution processes, developing Ozone generators. As well as the study of liquid dielectric materials with applications in high voltage equipment and the control of electrical machines. His research results in gaseous electronics are a reference, in databases and specialized books, for the simulation of collision reactions in atomic and molecular physics.

He has trained human resources at the bachelor's level with more than 47 Terminal and Integration Projects. He has supervised 6 Master's theses and one Doctoral thesis. Furthermore, he was a reviewer of more than 50 works in the journals Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, IOP Science publishing house, and the journal Plasma Sources Science and Technology, IOP Science. Likewise, he has also been an evaluator and manager of CONHACYT Science and Technology projects and programs.

Furthermore, he completed a sabbatical stay at the Instituto Tecnológico de La Laguna and a short stay at the University of Toulouse, obtaining several publications in JCR magazines as a result of these interactions.