Doctor José Campos Terán is a Professor at the Department of Processes and Technology of the Division of Natural Sciences and Engineering of the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM) Cuajimalpa.

He studied Chemical Engineering at the Faculty of Chemistry (1988-1993) and received his M.Sc. (1995-1997) and Ph.D. (Materials Science) at the Faculty of Science (1997-2002), both from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). For his doctoral thesis work he received honorable mention and was awarded the Alfonso Caso medal from UNAM. He is a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Physicochemistry 1, Lund University, Sweden (2002-2005). He also has a stay as a visiting researcher at the Mexican Petroleum Institute (IMP, 2006).

He participates as a professor in the Biological Engineering degree program at Cuajimalpa Campus, where he usually teaches Physics, Thermodynamics, Physicochemistry, Biophysics, Molecular Structure of Biomaterials, and Colloids and Interfaces.

He is a researcher of the National System of Researchers, Level II, and his main line of research is the study of colloidal and interfacial systems involving mainly biomolecules, i.e., proteins, enzymes, lipids, cellulose, chitosan, alginate, etc., and with which materials for biosensors, tissue engineering, and controlled release systems can be developed. This is based on the generation of knowledge regarding the relationship between the composition and structure of thin films of these molecular components in liquid-air and solid-liquid interfaces and their physicochemical properties. For this purpose, Professor Campos uses and has experience in different interfacial characterization techniques such as interfacial tensiometry, quartz crystal microbalance, Langmuir, and Langmuir-Blodgett films, interfacial shear and dilational rheology, ellipsometry and neutron reflectrometry.

He has published 20 articles in international indexed and refereed journals, six book chapters, one coordination of a popular science book, has three patent applications. In terms of human resources training, he has supervised terminal projects of 8 undergraduate students, has graduated six graduate students, and has under his direction another two students at the same level. Likewise, he has given more than 60 lectures at national and international scientific dissemination events. He has directed or participated in research projects of CONACyT, PROMEP, ICyTDF, TWAS, Laue-Langevin Institute, France, and the Ministry of Science and Innovation, Spain.

Another research interest of Professor Campos is the development of new processes and technology that generate energy and materials while minimizing environmental damage. In this regard, Professor Campos is a member of the technical committee of the "Laboratory for Cities in Socio-ecological Transition" of the Cuajimalpa Campus of the UAM and, since 2011, he has been a member of the American Chemical Society and the organizing committee of the annual symposium "Valorization of Renewable Resources & Residuals Into New Materials & Multiphase Systems" of the Cellulose and Renewable Materials Division. He recently obtained the 2016 Applied Research Award granted by the Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN) for his participation in the project "Obtaining biopolymers from agroindustrial waste of tomato peel".