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Dr. Ramón Fuentes Villaseñor was born in Autlán de Navarro, Jalisco, in November 1945. He completed his primary and secondary education in his hometown and attended preparatory school at the University of Guadalajara. In 1968, he enrolled in the Physics program at the Faculty of Sciences of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), where he earned his Bachelor’s degree in Physics in 1975. He continued his graduate studies at the same Faculty and obtained a Master of Science in Physics in 1985. Later, he pursued a Doctorate in Education at the University of Cuautitlán Izcalli, State of Mexico, earning the degree in 2017.

Between 1990 and 2010, he participated in several professional development courses at the Faculty of Higher Studies Cuautitlán (UNAM). In 1971, he also completed the course on Basic Techniques of Radioisotopes and Nuclear Instrumentation, offered by the Comisión Nacional de Energía Nuclear.

His research focused primarily on General Relativity and Gravitation. He published the article “Space-Time of Class One” in the international journal General Relativity and Gravitation (1989), as well as “Espacio-Tiempo de Clase Uno con Rigidez Intrínseca” and “Espacio-Tiempo de Clase Uno” in Acta Mexicana de Ciencia y Tecnología (1984 and 1985). At the Azcapotzalco Campus of the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, he published nine research papers on General Relativity and Gravitation, four on Quantum Mechanics, and three on the Philosophy of Physics.

In the field of education, he conducted research on Competency-Based Education, with a special focus on the Problem-Solving Competency. His doctoral dissertation presented the redesign and implementation of the Rigid Body Dynamics course at the Azcapotzalco Campus of the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, using a competency-based approach.

Dr. Fuentes gave seminars and lectures on Physics at the Faculty of Higher Studies Cuautitlán (UNAM) and at the Azcapotzalco Campus of the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana. He presented research at a conference of the Sociedad Mexicana de Física and at the Inter American University of Puerto Rico. He also attended the First Mexican Congress on the History of Science and Technology, held at UNAM’s Faculty of Philosophy and Literature.

He has been a member of the Sociedad Mexicana de Física since 1979.

Now retired, Dr. Fuentes Villaseñor concludes a distinguished academic and research career, leaving a meaningful legacy in physics, science education, and the training of new generations of students.