Professor José Antonio De los Reyes Heredia was born in Tampico, Tamaulipas, in May 1965. He studied for a degree in Chemical and Systems Engineering at the Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Monterrey Campus; he completed a Diplôme d'Etudes Approfondies, with a major in Chemical Kinetics and Catalysis at Claude Bernard University, Lyon I, France, the same institution where he later obtained his Ph.D., also with the above mentioned major.

He is a National Researcher with level III, a Professor at the Department of Process Engineering and Hydraulics at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM) Iztapalapa Campus.

He has 1543 citations and 46 international and ten national publications in refereed journals. He also wrote and published in the book "2nd School in Materials Science and Nanotechnology", the chapter called "Nanostructures in catalysis: genesis and basic relationships between their structures and properties".

The lines of research towards which his work is oriented are the development of materials with applications in catalysis for pollution prevention and remediation, as well as the kinetic modeling of catalytic heterogeneous reactions; both have current projects funded by CONACYT and the Mexican Petroleum Institute. He has worked at UAM since 1992.

He has supervised doctoral and master's level theses and terminal projects of the Chemical Engineering degree at CBI of the Iztapalapa Campus. He has also been a doctorate, master's, and UEA professor at UAM.