Professor Román Linares Romero was born in Mexico City. He completed his bachelor’s, master’s, and Ph.D. degrees in Physics at the Faculty of Sciences of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, obtaining his Ph.D. in July 2001. He carried out a postdoctoral stay at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands (2002-2003). Since January 5, 2004, he has been affiliated with the Gravitation and Cosmology area of the Department of Physics at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Iztapalapa Campus.

Among his main lines of research are the study of the physical consequences of spacetimes with extra dimensions and the derivation and analysis of solutions to gravity and supergravity equations. He has published 36 research articles in peer-reviewed international journals. He has supervised 3 Ph.D. theses, 8 master’s theses, and 4 postdoctoral stays. He has been a member of the National System of Researchers (SNI) since 2005, and as of 2024, holds the title of National Researcher Level III. He has participated as a referee for various internationally circulated specialized journals. He has undertaken research stays at the Autonomous University of Madrid in Spain, the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, the Leibniz University in Hannover, Jacobs University in Bremen, and the University of Bremen in Germany.

In teaching, he has taught 47 undergraduate and 23 graduate courses in a classroom setting, as well as 16 individualized undergraduate and 63 individualized graduate courses. He has supervised 5 undergraduate capstone projects and 14 social service projects. In 2014, he received the Teaching Award granted by UAM. In science outreach and dissemination, he has given over 60 lectures, co-organized 25 national and international scientific conferences, and edited 4 conference proceedings volumes. He contributed to the launch of the Carlos Graef Fernández Virtual Institute, established by UAM to foster motivation for science and engineering among high school students. He has been interviewed for various radio programs and print media outlets.

In institutional management within UAM, he served as Head of the Department of Physics (2018-2022) and is currently the Director of the Division of Basic Sciences and Engineering (2022-2026). In the Gravitation and Mathematical Physics Division of the Mexican Physical Society, he held the positions of President (2022-2024), Vice President (2019-2022), and Treasurer (2009-2013 and 2017-2019).