Academic Group

Professor 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 as "Integrative Axis: Evolutionary Psychology" and "Statistical Data Analysis". He has also taught interdivisional electives in this Unit, such as "Analysis of social networks" and "Man and his environment".

His research interests are based on comparative hypotheses about the origins of sociability and its influence on health. In this sense, in the Department of Health Sciences, she develops comparative research in different mammalian species, in the fields of social cohesion and social networks and the relationship between social cohesion, the microbiota-gut-brain axis, and social neurosciences.

Finally, he collaborates in some administrative processes of his competence in the Lerma Campus, he has participated as an advisor in the Research Commission of the CBS Division and is currently Academic Secretary of the same Division.