Dr. Felipe Gerardo Ávila Jiménez has a degree in Human Settlement Design from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM). He has studies in Metropolitan Planning and Policies and has a master's degree in Information Management from the University of Havana, Cuba. He has a PhD in Projects from the Universidad Internacional Iberoamericana and the Fundación Universitaria Iberoamericana.

He works as a Full-Time Research Professor at the Azcapotzalco Campus, assigned to the Department of Design Evaluation over Time, member of the Studies Area and responsible for the Urban Form Laboratory (LFU). He specializes in multi-criteria spatial analysis applied to territorial planning and urban and environmental planning; participatory planning and mapping, project management and organizational analysis.

He is a member of the Technical Committee of the Research Program in Metropolitan Studies of the UAM and a collaborator in more than 50 applied research projects and participates in research projects with the Research Center in Geospatial Information Sciences, CentroGeo.

He has various publications related to urban planning, peri-urban agriculture, land use, heat island, housing, urban delimitation, collaborative work, methods for spatial analysis and remote sensing.

He is a member of the Editorial Committee of the Yearbook of Urban Spaces, History, Culture and Design, of the Urban Studies Area.