Academic Group

Professor Maribel Hernández Guerrero is a graduate in Chemical Engineering from the Instituto Tecnológico de Pachuca. She obtained her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia, 2008). She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Centre For Advanced Macromolecular Design at the University of New South Wales in conjunction with Carl Zeiss Vision (Sola International Holdings).

Since 2009, she has been a Professor in the Department of Processes and Technology at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM) Cuajimalpa Campus in the undergraduate program in Biological Engineering and the Graduate Program in Natural Sciences and Engineering.

She develops research projects in the area of materials. Her main lines of research focus on the study of lignocellulosic residues and the formation mechanism of porous membranes with honeycomb structures produced with natural polymers (lignin and cellulose) and synthetic polymers. She has several projects focused on the pretreatment, extraction, and use of lignin and cellulose to obtain value-added materials.

She has done research stays at universities in Germany and Australia. She has several scientific articles published in journals with Impact Factor with more than 400 citations. She has written several book chapters and has more than 50 papers in national and international congresses. She has also carried out consulting projects and has participated in the direction of undergraduate theses and postgraduate degrees in Natural Sciences and Engineering at the Cuajimalpa Campus of the UAM and in Biotechnology at the Iztapalapa Campus.