Professor Juan Azorín Nieto was born in July 1944 in Mexico City, Mexico. He completed his undergraduate studies in Physics and Mathematics at the Escuela Superior de Física y Matemáticas of the Instituto Politécnico Nacional (ESFM-IPN) and his Master's degree in Radiation Physics and Radiation Safety at the Facultad de Ciencias of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (FC-UNAM); Ph.D. in Physics at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM) Iztapalapa Campus, studying solid state phenomena such as thermoluminescence, lioluminescence and electronic paramagnetic resonance, and their applications to the dosimetry of ionizing radiation, whose relevance is paramount in medical and industrial applications of radiation. The impact of his work on topics related to the study of lioluminescence and its application to dosimetry in food irradiation earned him third place in 1985 in the National Award in Food Science and Technology as an advisor to the student of the National School of Biological Sciences (ENCB-IPN), Antonio Elizalde Mendoza, in the student category.

Between 1966 and 1968 he worked as a professor of Physics and Mathematics at the Escuela Técnica Industrial "Wilfrido Massieu" and from 1966 to 1981 at the Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biológicas of the IPN. He has been a visiting professor at the Universities of Rome and Florence in Italy, the University of Córdoba, Argentina, and the Universities of Sonora, Veracruz, and Estado de México; as well as at the IPN in Mexico. He is currently a Professor in the Physics Department of the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM) Iztapalapa Campus, where, since 1994, he has carried out uninterrupted work in research, technological development, human resources training and liaison with the medical and industrial sector in Mexico. From 1969 to 1994 he worked as a researcher at the National Institute of Nuclear Research, where he was distinguished with the "Manuel Sandoval Vallarta Award" 1990 in recognition of merit in scientific research and with the "Carlos Graef Fernandez Award" 1993 in recognition of merit for activities in the promotion and diffusion of nuclear energy. He has been a member of the National System of Researchers (SNI) since 1985 and currently holds Level III. He is also a Regular Member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences since 1988. In 1990 he was named Distinguished Graduate of the ESFM-IPN.

Professor Azorín has published more than 140 research articles in specialized international journals, 27 in national refereed journals, 140 in conference proceedings, and 16 books. The international recognition of his work is reflected in more than 1400 citations to his research papers, some of which are outstanding. In addition, he has been responsible for more than 15 research and technological development projects, including international cooperation projects. To date, he has supervised 11 Ph.D. theses, 16 Master's theses, two specialization theses, one specialty thesis and 13 undergraduate theses, with one Ph.D. thesis and three Master's theses in progress. All the theses directed by Juan Azorín have resulted in scientific articles published in international journals; the researchers trained by him are working in research centers in our country and abroad; those working in Mexico belong to the SNI at levels I and II.

He has been a member of several scientific committees and evaluation commissions of the scientific community at the national and international levels, such as the Engineering Committee of the National Council of Science and Technology for the period 2000-2003, among others. He chairs the Organizing Committee of the International Symposium and National Congress on Solid State Dosimetry, which has been held annually since 1987 in different venues.

He has strongly promoted Medical Physics in Mexico, enthusiastically promoting the creation of the Specialization in Clinical Medical Physics and contributing in an outstanding way to the elaboration of the syllabus and programs of the UEA of the same. He currently teaches some subjects and has directed two theses in the aforementioned Specialization which started activities during 2016.