Professor María Guadalupe Montes de Oca Yemhab was born in August 1981. She graduated from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) in Chemical Engineering with honors, winner of the Gabino Barreda and Gustavo Baz Prada medals in November 2004. She obtained the degree of Master in Materials Science and Engineering at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM Azcapotzalco Campus in April 2007, with the University Merit Medal in November of the same year. The Master's thesis was entitled "Studies of Nucleation and Growth of Metallic Clusters under the Influence of Forced Convection". Winner of the award for the best master thesis in June 2008 by the Electrochemical Society of Mexico, SMEQ. Ph.D. degree from the University of Bristol, UK, September 2011. The Ph.D. thesis was entitled "Electrocatalytic properties of Au-Pd nanostructures", allowing publications in international journals and participation in conferences in Europe.

Some awards obtained in the Ph.D. were the best presentations in "Great Western Electrochemistry Event" in 2008 and 2009, as well as the Faraday Discussions 152: Gold award in July 2011. One of the five winners of the L'oreal-UNESCO-CONACyT-Academia Mexicana de Ciencias, scholarships for women in Science 2016. Currently, she is a member of the SNI from January 2012 to December 2021, Level I.

She was hired at the UAM Azcapotzalco Campus as a professor in the Department of Materials, Materials Engineering Area in September 2011. With 22 publications in international journals with JCR (Journal Citation Report) and 10 in indexed journals. Training of human resources in Metallurgical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Master and Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering at the Azcapotzalco Campus. Member of the Study Committee of the Bachelor's Degree in Metallurgical Engineering (May 2014 to May 2018), Member of the Editorial Board (October 2016 to date), and Member of the Study Committee Line of Materials Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering (April 2018 to date).