Professor Melissa Aimé Fernández Chagoya was the Alternate Expert for Mexico before the "Belém Do Pará" Convention from 2014 to 2017. Since 2017, she has been part of the National System of Researchers of CONAHCyT.

She holds a Ph.D. in Social Sciences in the area of concentration of Women and Gender Relations at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM) Xochimilco Campus; her thesis was awarded Academic Mention 2015, ruled for publication by the Centro de Estudios de Antropología de la Mujer in 2018 and released by Creative Commons in 2020. She holds a Master's in Gender and Development from the Université Diderot-Paris 7. She has a Master's degree in Gender and Cultural Studies with Mention in Social Sciences from the University of Chile and a degree in Social Anthropology from the National School of Anthropology and History.

Co-author of three books on youth and masculinity, sexual consumption, and men's participation in the trafficking of women for sexual exploitation, as well as four manuals to eradicate violence against women in Mexico. She coordinated the book Miradas multidisciplinarias en torno a la masculinidad: desafíos para la impartición de justicia. She has published academic articles, essays, and chapters in books on gender theories and feminist political action.

She coordinated and founded the Seminar Gender Studies: Contemporary Theories and Political Action (First Generation 2016), the Diploma in Training of Agents for Equality (First Generation 2017), and the Seminar/Diploma Training Reconstruction of the Social Fabric in Mexico: Citizenship, democracy and culture of peace (first generation 2018). She is also the author of the contents of the online courses Gender and feminisms: theoretical currents and Practices of equality and Masculinities: theories and Practices Around Being a man.

She has been a university lecturer since 2011 to the present. As of June 2023, she is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Iztapalapa Campus; her position involves teaching the following subjects: practical anthropology, gender anthropology, anthropology of difference and inequality I and II, and legal anthropology.