Dr. Claudia Díaz is a professor-researcher in the Department of Economic Production and chief of the Inequality and Social Transformation area at UAM-Xochimilco. She is also a professor in the Master's Degree in Economics, Policy and Innovation Management, in the Master's Degree in Development and Planning of Higher Education, in the Master's Degree in Public Policy, and in the Doctorate in Social Sciences at the same university.

In addition, she is a member of the National System of Researchers (SNI), level II. Her lines of research include science, technology and innovation policies; knowledge management and innovation; the business-university linkage, as well as the mobility of inventors and academic patenting, incorporating the neo-institutionalist perspective.

Since she was a Philosophy student at Universidad de Guadalajara, she has tried to understand the regulations, the associated factors, and the processes involved in the production of scientific knowledge, because Mexico is a country with little participation in science and technology worldwide. After studying the Bachelor's degree in Philosophy, she studied a Master's degree in Social Sciences focused in International Relations and Pacific Studies, at the same university.

Years later, she enrolled in the Doctorate in Organizational Studies at Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Unidad Iztapalapa to subsequently do a stay at the Center for Policy Research on Science and Technology at Simon Fraser University with a Conacyt scholarship, in Vancouver, Canadá.