Dr Augusto Jacobo Montiel Castro holds a degree in Psychology from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) in 2003, a Master of Science in Animal Behavior from the University of Exeter (2005), and a Ph.D. in Evolutionary Psychology and Behavioral Ecology from the University of Liverpool (2009), both in the United Kingdom.

In 2010 he collaborated at the Darwin Center for Evolutionary Thought (CEDAR) of the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM), Iztapalapa and Lerma Campuses. During 2011, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the Area of History and Philosophy of Science at the Iztapalapa Campus of the UAM.

Since 2013, he joined the Department of Health Sciences at the Lerma Campus as a visiting professor and now as an associate professor. He has collaborated with the teaching of the bachelor’s degree in Environmental biology and Biomedical psychology, at the Lerma Campus, in UEA such as “Behavioral Ecology”, "Evolutionary Psychology" and "Statistical Data Analysis". He has also taught interdivisional electives, such as “The microbiome: well-being, behavioral ecology and sustainability", “Principles of human cooperation”, and “Social network analysis".

His research interests focus on comparative hypotheses about the origins of sociability and its influence on health. In this capacity, within the Department of Health Sciences, he conducts comparative research on different mammal species in the fields of social microbiome, social networks analysis, and the relationship between social cohesion and health.