Professor Martha Isabel Flores Avalos received her Ph.D. in Design with a research line in urban studies from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM) Azcapotzalco Campus. She has a Master's degree in Design Management from the Universidad Intercontinental and another in Visual Arts with a focus on engraving from the Facultad de Bellas Artes of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). Her undergraduate degree was in Graphic Communication Design from UAM Xochimilco Campus.

She has professional practice at the National School of Fine Arts in Poznañ, Poland for two years, experience that helped her to understand the concept of graphics as an expressive language and as a means of professional communication in the field of graphic messages.

She has been the coordinator of the Bachelor's Degree in Graphic Communication Design (2007-2011), and has provided teaching support to the Bachelor's Degree in Graphic Communication Design and in Graduate Studies.

Professor Flores considers herself an engraver, illustrator, and draftswoman in the professional field, with interventions for various publications in publishing houses in Mexico and other countries. She has exhibited her work in several galleries in Mexico and around the world.

She received the Teaching Award 2015 and the Academic Mention 2014 for her Ph.D. thesis at the Azcapotzalco Campus.