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Professor Martín Manuel Checa-Artasu (Barcelona, 1969) holds a Ph.D. in Human Geography from the University of Barcelona; a Master's degree in Business Administration (MBA) from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia and a Bachelor's degree in Geography and History, specializing in Archaeology from the University of Barcelona.
He is a Professor in the Department of Sociology at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM) Iztapalapa Campus. He is a member of the basic teaching core of the Postgraduate Program in Design, Planning and Conservation of Landscapes and Gardens at the Azcapotzalco Campus and the Postgraduate Program in Social Studies at the Iztapalapa Campus of the UAM.
He was Head of the Space and Society Research Area (2011-2018). He is a member of the National System of Researchers, Level II. Regular member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences since 2017 and ICOMOS Mexico. Recognition as a Professor with a desirable profile of PRODEP.
He was a researcher at the Centro de Estudios en Geografía Humana del Colegio de Michoacán, and Professor at the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (campus Puebla) and at the Universidad de Quintana Roo.
Participation in research projects: Mercator Fellow of the international project: Global Gothic: International Gothic Architecture in the 20th and 21st centuries, Technische Universität Dresden (Germany) from 2018 to 2021. funded by the German Research Council; Researcher in the project Italian Diaspora in Latin America. Project promoted by EdA International Research Center, Rome, Italy. since 2016; 6 UAM projects as responsible researcher; 1 FOMIX CONACYT project; 1 PROMEP project and eight technical assistance projects for the business sector as coordinator. Participation in 5 projects as associate researcher.
In the formation of human resources, he has directed eight doctoral theses; six master's theses directed; 20 undergraduate theses directed and two tutorials of postdoctoral stays. He has given seminars and conferences in universities in Argentina, Germany, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Spain, Italy, and Mexico.
He has done research stays at the Landscape Observatory of Catalonia (Spain) and at the Dept. of Art and Culture of the Technische Universität Dresden (Germany).
In terms of publications he is the author of 303 publications: 80 articles in indexed and refereed journals; 89 book chapters; 37 published conference papers; 35 dissemination articles; 12 books as coordinator; 12 books as author; 28 project reports and ten reviews on issues related to: Landscape, its theory and as an element of management; urban green areas; the geography of heritage in Mexico, history of architecture in Mexico and Latin America and the geography of oil in Mexico.
He has written 12 books as author or co-author among the most recent: "El neogótico en Jalisco. Guía básica para la apreciación del entorno edificado" (Arquitónica Editorial, 2021) and Adamo Boari (1863-1928). "Architecto entre América y Europa" (Aracne Editrice, 2021).
He has coordinated alone or in co-authorship the following books: "Barcelona, la ciudad de las fábricas" (2000); "El espacio en las ciencias sociales. Geography, interdisciplinarity and commitment" (El Colegio de Michoacán, 2013), "Architectures of the sacred in contemporary Mexico" (U.A. Aguascalientes, 2014); "The "other Mexican cities". "Forgotten Urbanization Processes" (Instituto Mora, 2014); "Landscape and Territory. Theoretical and Empirical Articulations" (UAM & Tirant Mexico, 2014); "History of electrification. Strategies and changes in territory and society" (U. Barcelona, 2015); "Oil in Mexico and its impacts on the territory" (Instituto Mora, 2016) and "Neo-Gothic in American architecture. History, restoration, reinterpretations and reflections" (Aracne editrice, Rome, 2016); "Landscape: methods of analysis and reflections" (UAM, Unidad Iztapalapa; Editorial del Lirio, 2017); "Italians in Mexico Architects, engineers, artists between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries" (Aracne editrice, Rome, 2019); "Legislation and landscape. An open debate in Mexico" (UAM 2020) and “Architects and artists in the Italian diaspora in Latin America. Cultural diplomacy in action” (Aracne editrice, Rome, 2021).
He has been awarded the Prize for the best research work and Honorable Mention in the IV Latin American Biennial of Landscape. 2020 for the coordinated book: Legislación y paisaje. An open debate in Mexico. Mexico City, UAM, 2020.
Member of the editorial board of the journals: Biblio3W, Revista Bibliográfica de Geografía y Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de Barcelona; of International Journal: EDA Esempi di architettura, edited by Aracne Editrice, Rome, Italy and of Revista RedCA of the Red de Cuerpos Académicos para la investigación Educativa and edited by the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México. He is a member of the scientific committee of the Collection "Patrimonio culturale di interesse religioso", published by Aracne Editrice, Rome, Italy and the collection Cultural Diplomacy & Heritage, published by TAB edizione, Rome.
He has been a juror in the V Latin American Biennial of Landscape Architecture (2022).
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