Dr. Gerardo Jorge Félix Martínez holds a Bachelor’s degree in Physics from the Autonomous University of Zacatecas and a Ph.D. in Science, with a specialization in Biomedical Engineering, from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM). He completed a postdoctoral stay at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Cantabria. He received the UAM University Merit Medal and served as a Researcher for Mexico at SECIHTI from 2017 to 2025. He currently works as a Full Professor C in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana and has belonged to the National System of Researchers since 2017, currently at Level 1.

His research focuses on the study of pancreatic cells and islets of Langerhans to analyze their function in health and disease, with an emphasis on type 1 and type 2 diabetes, from a biophysical perspective that combines computational and experimental approaches. He developed DiabetesID, an application designed to support the early detection of undiagnosed diabetes in the Mexican adult population through non-invasive methods.

He has published more than thirty works, including research articles, reviews, and conference papers, on the mathematical and computational modeling of physiological systems. His research develops simulation and analysis tools to study cell and islet dynamics, calcium signaling, ion channel activity, and the reconstruction, architecture, and viability of islets under different oxygen, glucose, and vascularization conditions.

He currently serves as technical lead of the Basic and Frontier Science project “Functional implications of the impact of type 2 diabetes on the architecture of pancreatic islets using computational models,” with funding for the 2024–2026 period.