Professor Francisco Javier Soria López graduated as an architect from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM) in 1984, he has a master´s in architecture with a specialty in monument restoration from the Escuela Nacional de Restauración Manuel del Castillo Negrete del INAH from 1985-86. In 2004 he obtained a doctorate degree in Architectural Projects from the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura of the Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña in Barcelona.

His research and teaching work is focused on architectural design, conservation and reuse of built heritage, as well as sustainable construction, developing topics such as architectural integration in heritage environments, valuation of built heritage, preservation of heritage architecture on land, and experimental development of construction materials with low environmental impact. He has extensive experience as an architectural professional developing over the years the design and construction of 20 houses, more than ten projects of restoration and reuse of heritage buildings dating from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries for museums, cultural centers, historical archives, and offices and also supervised 16 restoration and rehabilitation works of buildings from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries.

In the management field, in 1988, he was head of the department in the office of Heritage Sites belonging to the then Department of the Federal District. From 1989 to 1992, he was the Director of the Regional Center of INAH in Aguascalientes. Between 1995 and 1999, he worked in the Directorate of Works of the UAM in the general rectory as head of Architectural Projects, participating in the supervision and development of architectural projects for the Xochimilco, Azcapotzalco, and Iztapalapa Campuses.

Professor Soria is a research professor at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, in the Department of Technology and Production, and became a professor in 1999, where he teaches modules X, XI, and XII in the concentration area of the Bachelor's Degree in Architecture. In 2003 he obtained a full-time position as a tenured professor, participating since 2004 in the Master's and Ph.D. programs in Science and Arts for Design at CyAD-Xochimilco. Since the creation of the Master in Reuse of Built Heritage in 2009, he also collaborates in this program, of which she is part of the basic nucleus. He contributes to specialized training as a postgraduate tutor, where he has directed and concluded with students 24 master's ICR and one doctoral thesis.

He is a member of the Interdepartmental Area in Conservation and Reuse of Built Heritage of CyAD. In his work as an academic, he has nearly 60 publications in authorship and co-authorship in specialized journals, book chapters, and outreach journals oriented to the issues of conservation and reuse of built heritage and sustainable design in architecture.

He has also given more than 70 lectures in specialized events, postgraduate programs, and several guest lectures. He has been coordinator of the Master in Science and Arts for Design (2006-2008), and coordinator of the Master in Reuse of Built Heritage (2009-2011) at UAM.

He was head of the Department of Technology and Production of the Division of Sciences and Arts for Design from 2015 to 2019 and was appointed as Director of that division from 2019-2023. He has coordinated five research projects and collaborated with 4 others at UAM.

Likewise, he has received external funding for PROMEP research networks, as well as two sponsored agreements, where the work with SEDUVI in 2012-13 for the elaboration of the Catalog of Properties Affected to the Urban Cultural Heritage of the Roma Norte and Roma Sur stands out, coordinating said project.

In addition to having all the academic recognition scholarships granted by the UAM, he has received other distinctions such as the Francisco de la Maza Award for the best master's thesis, where he received an honorable mention and, at the European level, the award for the best Ph.D. thesis, granted by: International Council For Research On Architecture, of the European Union, for the thesis entitled Architecture and Nature at the End of the 20th Century. From 2006 to 2016, he was a member of the National System of Researchers level 1 and has the PRODEP Profile from 2006 to date.