Doctor Juan Marcos Esparza Schulz studied his B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Chemistry at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM) Iztapalapa Campus, and was awarded the University Merit Medal for his undergraduate studies. He is a member of the National System of Researchers with the appointment of National Researcher level 1 and has been a Professor assigned to the area of Surface Physicochemistry in the Department of Chemistry at UAM Iztapalapa Campus since 2001 to date.

His research interests are:
1 Synthesis and characterization of ordered porous nanostructures of silicon dioxide and carbon.
2. Evaluation of the adsorption capacity of CO2 and CH4 in ordered porous materials.
3. Study of the isosteric enthalpy of adsorption in porous materials.

He has given lectures on the synthesis and characterization of silicon dioxide and carbon nanomaterials by means of the nitrogen adsorption technique at 77K in different Universities.

He has graduated five undergraduate and graduate students, published about 30 research articles in international journals with strict arbitration, and in the last five years, he has published five papers on the synthesis and characterization of ordered mesoporous solids. He is an academic evaluator of CONACYT projects.

His most cited article is: On comparing BJH and NLDFT pore-size distribution determined from N2 adsorption on SBA-15 substrate. In the journal: Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2003, 5(9) 1859-1866.