Professor Mirella Gutiérrez Arzaluz, a Mexican national, is originally from the State of Mexico. She obtained her Ph.D. degree from the University of Zaragoza, within the Ph.D. Program: Environmental Engineering and Chemistry, with Mention of Quality from the University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain, in 2007. He obtained the Diploma of Advanced Studies within the Doctorate Program in Chemical and Environmental Engineering from the University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain, in 2005. She studied the Master of Science (Chemical Engineering) at the Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico, in 2000. She has the Mexican degree homologated to the Spanish degree of Chemical Engineer by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Government of Spain in 2005. She obtained her B.Sc. degree in Chemical Engineering from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM), Mexico, in 1995.

She has been a Professor at the UAM Azcapotzalco Campus since October 1999. As a professor, she has actively participated in the teaching of courses both at the undergraduate level (basic chemistry courses) and at the graduate level in the master's programs of the Graduate Program in Science and Engineering of the Division of Basic Sciences and Engineering (Materials and Environmental lines). She has collaborated in the Study Committee of the Master's Degree in Materials Science and Engineering (2009-2013) and currently collaborates in the Study Committee of the Master's Degree in Environmental Science and Engineering.

Her main research line is Environmental Catalysis, mainly focused on studying water and air pollution problems and some energy problems, topics in which she has directed 19 integration projects (undergraduate) and 14 master's theses and has published more than 20 articles in international journals and more than 10 in national journals, has participated in two patents and eight book chapters. She has been responsible for and collaborated on research projects funded by CONACyT, PRODEP, and UAM.

She is an active member of the following professional societies: founding member of the "Sociedad Mexicana de Ciencia y Tecnologías Membranas, AC.", of which she was treasurer in the period (2015-2017). And member of the "Asociación Mexicana de Catálisis" (ACAT) since 2011, she is a member of the "North American Catalysis Society" (NACS) and the "Federación Iberoamericana de Sociedades de Catálisis" (FISOCat). She is a member of the National System of Researchers (SNI) Level I, has the PRODEP Profile Recognition and has h-index 8 in Scopus.