Professor Juan Carlos López García is a Sociologist with a Master’s degree in Political and Social Studies from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). In 2015 he was a visiting researcher at the egolab-GRAFO of the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). Since 2018 he has been a research professor at the Department of Cultural Studies of the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Lerma Campus, where he teaches the Seminars Complexity and interdiscipline, Sociology of higher education, and Social Networks Analysis.

Since 2022, he has held the position of General Coordinator of the Editorial Board of the Division of Social Sciences and Humanities at Lerma Campus of UAM. He is a member of the Mexican Council for Educational Research (COMIE), where he coordinates the Permanent Seminar on Higher Education and is part of the team in charge of preparing the States of Knowledge in the area of Higher Education, Science, Technology, and Innovation: 2012- 2022.

His lines of research are Internationalization of Mexican Academics, Academic Networks, Higher Education Policies, University Government, and Social Network Analysis.