Professor Miguel Ángel Barrón Meza is a Chemical Metallurgical Engineer from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). He holds a Master's degree in Chemical Engineering from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM). Ph.D. in Science, specializing in Materials, from the Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN). Postdoctoral stay at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (Spain). Sabbatical stay at the University of Notre Dame (USA). National Researcher Level I. Currently, Professor at the UAM Azcapotzalco Campus.

His research interests are: Modeling and simulation of metallurgical processes. Applications of Computational Fluid Dynamics.