Dr. José Antonio Carrera Barroso holds a Ph.D. and a Master’s degree in Social Studies (Political Processes), as well as a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Unidad Iztapalapa. He holds the rank of National Researcher Level I in the Sistema Nacional de Investigadoras e Investigadores (SNII) and is a member of the Mexican Society of Electoral Studies (SOMEE). He currently serves as Academic Secretary of the Division of Social Sciences and Humanities at UAM Iztapalapa (2025-present), having previously served as Divisional Coordinator of Teaching and Student Support (2024-2025). His professional background includes serving as advisor to the General Council of the National Electoral Institute (INE, 2022-2023), supervisor of the first Migrant Deputyship election (2021), and advisor to the General Council of the Electoral Institute of Mexico City (IECM, 2018-2020).

He serves as a Full-Time Professor in the State and Social Movements Research Area within the Department of Sociology of the Division of Social Sciences and Humanities at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Unidad Iztapalapa. He also collaborates with the Political Processes research area at UAM Iztapalapa and the Domination Processes, Social Classes, and Democratization research group at UAM Xochimilco.

His research focuses on electoral systems and institutions, political parties, transnational voting, electoral integrity, relations between INE and local electoral bodies, preliminary election result systems, quick counts, electronic voting, affirmative action, gender parity, and political representation of migrant communities, as well as the study of populism, autocratization, and political culture. His scholarly record combines political theory, applied statistics, and empirical institutional analysis in peer-reviewed journals, book chapters, and scientific evaluation work.