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Research interests

• Heat, momentum and mass transfer
• Modeling, analysis, design and simulation of chemical/biological processes/products
• Development and implementation of computers aided tools
• Applied mathematics
• Biorefineries

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Dean of the Cuajimalpa Campus for the term 2025-2029

Professor Mauricio Sales-Cruz is a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, Professor in the Department of Processes and Technology at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM) Cuajimalpa Campus, Mexico (since 2006). He is a member of the National System of Researchers (level I). He was Head of the Department of Processes and Technology, UAM Cuajimalpa Campus (2009-2013). Likewise, he was appointed Campus Secretary of UAM Cuajimalpa Campus, from October 2016 to June 2017. He was the Director of the Division of Natural Sciences and Engineering (July 2017- July 2021).

He has been a member of the board of directors of the Mexican Academy of Research and Teaching in Chemical Engineering A.C. (AMIDIQ) since 2009 and President of the same (2015-2017). He has worked as a process engineer at Fomento Nacional para el Apoyo a las Artesanías-FONART, Mexico (1995-2000); as a researcher at the Mexican Petroleum Institute (2000-2001); and as a Professor at UAM Iztapalapa Campus (1994-1995) and Universidad del Valle de México (1993-1996).

He has made short stays as a visiting researcher at the University of Cagliari, Italy (2002), as well as at the Universidad Católica del Norte and Universidad de Antofagasta, Chile (2013-2018), and the Technological University of Malaysia (2015). She completed a sabbatical stay at the Technical University of Denmark (2014-2015). His research areas are: heat, momentum and mass transfer; modeling, analysis, design and simulation of chemical processes. He has numerous publications and is a reviewer in internationally refereed indexed journals.

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Research interests

• Heat, momentum and mass transfer
• Modeling, analysis, design and simulation of chemical/biological processes/products
• Development and implementation of computers aided tools
• Applied mathematics
• Biorefineries

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Open Access	References	UN SDGs
OA	Angulo-Palma, H.J., Salazar, I., Saldana, M. and 6 more (...) (2026).New Model to Predict Nickel Extraction from Lateritic Ores During the Roasting–Reduction of the Caron Process. Minerals,16(3)
OA	Saldana, M., Gálvez, E., Sales-Cruz, M. and 6 more (...) (2026).Comprehensive Comparison of Machine Learning Approaches—Deterministic and Stochastic—In Modeling the Production and Power of an SAG Mill: A Case Study of the Chilean Copper Mining Industry. Minerals,16(4)	9
OA	Saldana, M., Gálvez, E., Sales-Cruz, M. and 6 more (...) (2026).A Stochastic Model Approach for Modeling SAG Mill Production and Power Through Bayesian Networks: A Case Study of the Chilean Copper Mining Industry. Minerals,16(1)
OA	Picazo-Rodríguez, N.G., Garza Román, M.R., Carrillo Pedroza, F.R. and 6 more (...) (2026).Geology, Reserves, Metallurgical Processing and Recycling of Cobalt—A Review. Minerals,16(7)	7\|9\|12
	de la Torre-Cano, D.M., Gutiérrez-Limón, M.A., Flores-Tlacuahuac, A. and 1 more (...) (2026).A data-driven optimization approach for the molecular design of CO2 capture ionic liquids mixtures. Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering,104(1) 182-202	13
	Lopez-Arenas, T., Palacios-Samano, K., Hernandez-Escoto, H. and 1 more (...) (2026).Citric acid production: A comprehensive assessment from a fermentation strategy to a circular economy process. Chemical Engineering and Processing - Process Intensification,221	12
OA	Méndez-Cruz, L.E., Salazar-Pereyra, M., Lugo-Leyte, R. and 3 more (...) (2025).Thermodynamic Evaluation of the Hybrid Combined Cycle Power Plant in the Valley of Mexico. Energies,18(8)
	Pérez-Roman, A., Lopez-Arenas, T., Sales-Cruz, M. and 1 more (...) (2025).Simulation of a biorefinery process from the organic fraction of municipal solid waste generated in Mexico City. Journal of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology,100(10) 2053-2064	7\|11\|12
	Panales-Pérez, A., Flores-Tlacuahuac, A., Fuentes-Cortés, L.F. and 2 more (...) (2025).A Bayesian optimization approach for stochastic data-driven Petlyuk distillation columns design. Chemical Engineering and Processing - Process Intensification,215
	Mann, V., Sales-Cruz, M., Gani, R. and 1 more (...) (2024).Hybrid Artificial Intelligence-based Process Flowsheet Synthesis and Design using Extended SFILES Representation. Computer Aided Chemical Engineering,531279-1284
OA	Méndez-Cruz, L.E., Gutiérrez-Limón, M.-Á., Lugo-Leyte, R. and 1 more (...) (2024).Thermodynamic Optimization of Trigeneration Power System. Energies ,17(12)
OA	Mann, V., Sales-Cruz, M., Gani, R. and 1 more (...) (2024).eSFILES: Intelligent process flowsheet synthesis using process knowledge, symbolic AI, and machine learning. Computers and Chemical Engineering,181
	de la Torre-Cano, D.M., Gutiérrez-Limón, M.A., Flores-Tlacuahuac, A. and 1 more (...) (2024).An Ionic Liquid Mixture Design for CO2 Capture through Bayesian Optimization and Molecular Dynamics Simulation. Computer Aided Chemical Engineering,531171-1176	13
	Méndez-Cruz, L.E., Gutiérrez-Limón, M.A., Lugo-Leyte, R. and 1 more (...) (2023).Comparative exergoeconomic analysis of two Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) configurations. Computer Aided Chemical Engineering,523067-3072
	Mitkowski, P.T., Szaferski, W., Nȩdzarek, A. and 1 more (...) (2023).Design of membrane systems. Physical Sciences Reviews,8(11) 4029-4051	9
OA	Méndez-Cruz, L.E., Gutiérrez-Limón, M.Á., Lugo-Méndez, H. and 3 more (...) (2022).Comparative Thermodynamic Analysis of the Performance of an Organic Rankine Cycle Using Different Working Fluids. Energies,15(7)	13
	Flores-Tlacuahuac, A., Gutierrez-Limon, M.A., Sales-Cruz, M. (2022).A probabilistic deep learning approach for thermal and exergy forecasting in organic Rankine cycles. Computers and Chemical Engineering,168	13
	Mitkowski, P.T., Szaferski, W., Nedzarek, A. and 1 more (...) (2022).Design of membrane systems. Membrane Technologies: From Academia to Industry,1-23	9
	Lopez-Arenas, T., Anaya-Reza, O., Perez-Cisneros, E.S. and 1 more (...) (2022).Conceptual design of sugarcane biorefinery upgrading molasses to value-added chemicals. A-Z of Biorefinery: A Comprehensive View,683-712	8\|12
OA	Lugo-Méndez, H., Lopez-Arenas, T., Torres-Aldaco, A. and 3 more (...) (2021).Interstage pressures of a multistage compressor with intercooling. Entropy,23(3)
	Rocha-Rios, J., Pérez-Roman, A., Lopez-Arenas, T. and 1 more (...) (2021).Simulation of the Biofuel Production Process from Organic Fraction of Municipal Solid Waste (OFMSW). Computer Aided Chemical Engineering,501943-1948	7\|11\|12
	Gonzalez-Contreras, M., Lugo-Mendez, H., Sales-Cruz, M. and 1 more (...) (2021).Synthesis, design and evaluation of intensified lignocellulosic biorefineries - Case study: Ethanol production. Chemical Engineering and Processing - Process Intensification,159	7
	Lucay, F.A., Sales-Cruz, M., Gálvez, E.D. and 1 more (...) (2021).Modeling of the Complex Behavior through an Improved Response Surface Methodology. Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy Review,42(5) 285-311
	Lugo-Méndez, H., Sánchez-Domínguez, M., Sales-Cruz, M. and 3 more (...) (2021).Synthesis of biodiesel from coconut oil and characterization of its blends. Fuel,295	7
	Gonzalez-Contreras, M., Lugo-Mendez, H., Sales-Cruz, M. and 1 more (...) (2020).Intensification of the 2g bioethanol production process. Chemical Engineering Transactions,79121-126	6\|7\|13
OA	Lucay, F.A., Lopez-Arenas, T., Sales-Cruz, M. and 2 more (...) (2020).Performance profiles for benchmarking of global sensitivity analysis algorithms. Revista Mexicana de Ingeniera Quimica,19(1) 423-444

Courses taught by the professor in recent trimesters

*Courses are conducted in spanish

Num.	Trim.	Course Name	Level
1	26P	Proyecto de Investigación Doctoral II	Posgrado
2	26P	Trabajo de Especialidad III	Posgrado
3	26P	Proyecto Terminal II	Licenciatura
4	26P	Proyecto Terminal II	Licenciatura
5	26I	Proyecto de Investigación Doctoral I	Posgrado
6	26I	Trabajo de Especialidad II	Posgrado
7	26I	Seminario Doctoral I	Posgrado
8	26I	Proyecto de Investigación Doctoral I	Posgrado
9	26I	Proyecto Terminal I	Licenciatura
10	26I	Proyecto Terminal I	Licenciatura
11	26I	Seminario Doctoral I	Posgrado
12	25O	Proyecto Terminal II	Licenciatura
13	25O	Seminario de Especialidad	Posgrado
14	25O	Trabajo de Especialidad I	Posgrado
15	25P	Seminario III	Posgrado
16	25P	Proyecto Terminal I	Licenciatura
17	25P	Seminario III	Posgrado
18	25I	Proyecto de Investigación III	Posgrado
19	24O	Seminario II	Posgrado
20	24O	Proyecto de Investigación II	Posgrado
21	24P	Proyecto de Investigación I	Posgrado
22	24I	Seminario I	Posgrado
23	23O	Proyecto de Investigación Doctoral XII	Posgrado
24	23P	Proyecto de Investigación Doctoral XI	Posgrado
25	23I	Proyecto de Investigación Doctoral X	Posgrado
26	23I	Seminario Doctoral IV	Posgrado
27	22O	Proyecto de Investigación Doctoral IX	Posgrado
28	22P	Proyecto de Investigación Doctoral VIII	Posgrado
29	22I	Proyecto de Investigación Doctoral VII	Posgrado
30	22I	Proyecto de Investigación Doctoral XII	Posgrado

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