Professor Adriana H. Larralde Corona holds a Ph.D. in Social Science and a Master's degree in Urban Development from El Colegio de México. She is a Professor at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM) Cuajimalpa Campus.

Her areas of interest include the analysis of the city-region and rural-urban relations, peripheral urbanization, rural territorial development, and urban planning. Two of her most recent publications are The current urban form of metropolitan areas in Mexico: indicators and morphological dimensions (2019), Demographic and Urban Studies 34(100):11-42. A reflection on the history of the sociology of rural development. Thirty years in the construction of more solid and heterogeneous theories, Ed. El Colegio Mexiquense, 2017 and; Rural labor diversification and rural-urban relations. El caso de dos ejidos localizados en el vale de Toluca, Ed. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2015.