Professor Socorro Flores Gutiérrez is an academic technician at the Socioterritorial Analysis Laboratory at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM) Cuajimalpa Campus where she teaches and conducts research.

She studied her Master's degree in Geomatics at the Centro de Investigación en Geografía y Geomática "Ing. Jorge L. Tamayo" A.C. CentroGeo, a public research center CONACYT, (2014-2015). Where she developed the thesis: "The perception of insecurity and fear of crime in the diagnosis of insecurity. A methodological proposal from Geomatics".

Specialist in Geomatics by the same Research Center (2013); where she was a CONACYT scholarship holder from 2013 to 2015. She also has a degree in Geography and Land Management from the Faculty of Geography of the Autonomous University of the State of Mexico (UAEMéx) (1999-2004), where she was awarded the "Ignacio Manuel Altamirano Basilio" University Merit Award for having achieved the highest average of her generation and where she was a University Counselor.