Dr. Rodrigo Jesús Hernández Gutiérrez holds a Ph.D. (2013), a Master’s degree (2009), and a Bachelor’s degree (2007) in Mathematical Sciences from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). He completed postdoctoral fellowships at York University (Canada, 2014), the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (United States, 2015), and Nipissing University (Canada, 2016).

He serves as a Full-Time Tenured Faculty Researcher in the Department of Mathematics at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Unidad Iztapalapa, where he obtained tenure in 2019. He is a Level II National Researcher in the Sistema Nacional de Investigadoras e Investigadores (SNII, valid through 2030, having served as Level I from 2015 to 2021).

He has 20 years of teaching experience, having taught at the Faculty of Sciences at UNAM, FES Acatlán, UAEM Cuautitlán Izcalli Campus, York University, and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He has advised eight completed theses (two doctoral dissertations, three master’s theses, and three undergraduate capstone projects) and currently advises doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students.

His research focuses on General Topology, with an emphasis on Set-Theoretic Topology, including functionally countable spaces, topological homogeneity, hyperspaces, continua, and applications of set theory to topology. He has authored over 34 peer-reviewed international research articles indexed in major databases, accumulating more than 130 citations. Additionally, he actively engages in mathematics outreach through lectures aimed at high school and undergraduate students.