Dr. Marcia Guadalupe Morales Ibarría is a National System of Researchers Level 2 member. She graduated from the Universidad Veracruzana with a degree in Chemical Engineering, completed her master's and doctorate studies in the same discipline at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Iztapalapa Campus, and later did a postdoctoral stay at the University of California Riverside Campus, under the UC- Mexus.

She worked at the Mexican Petroleum Institute (2000-2005) as a scientific researcher, and since 2005 she has been a Research Professor at theUniversidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Cuajimalpa Campus.

Within the management positions, she was the first Coordinator of the Biological Engineering Degree (2008-2011) and Coordinator of the Postgraduate Course in Natural Sciences and Engineering (2014-2015), and she was Head of the Department of Processes and Technology (DPT) for the period 2017 to 2021. She is currently the Academic Secretary of the Division of Natural Sciences and Engineering (DCNI).

She belongs to the Academic Group (PRODEP) of Biosystems in Environment and Energy. Her research interest is in the biological treatment of contaminated gas streams, combustion gases, and greenhouse gases, specifically in capturing carbon dioxide with microalgae to obtain biofuels or value-added compounds.

She is a member of the thematic Editorial Committee of Cymbella (Journal of the Phycology Society) and the Scientific Committee of the Latin American Journal of Environmental and Algal Biotechnology (RELBAA). She is also a reviewer in high-impact publications such as PLOS one, Bioresource Technology, and Chemosphere, among others.

She has been institutionally responsible for projects of the CONACyT Innovation Stimulus Program with companies and currently of the Bioenergy Innovation Center in the gaseous Biofuels cluster of the CONACyT-SENER Energy Sustainability Fund, as well as a National Problem project.