Rubén A. Martínez-Avendaño has an undergraduate degree from the Universidad de las Américas-Puebla, Mexico and his doctorate in mathematics from the University of Toronto, Canada. He held a postdoctoral position at Michigan State University, U.S.A. Upon returning to Mexico, he joined the Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas of the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo and since August of 2018 he is a full profesor at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México. He has been a visiting scholar at the University of Toronto, at the State University of New York College at Potsdam, at the California State University-Channel Islands and was a visiting professor at George Mason University, in Virginia, U.S.A.

His topics of research are Functional Analysis and Operator Theory. In particular, Rubén has published research articles about classes of operators on spaces of analytic functions on the disk, and in the last few years, operators defined on discrete structures, such as infinite graphs. He has published research papers on Linear Algebra and has directed bachelor’s, master’s and Ph.D. theses on many of these topics, and on Game Theory. Rubén belongs to the Sistema Nacional de Investigadores, level 2. He is the author of more than twenty research articles, some undergraduate level articles and a book in the Springer series Graduate Texts in Mathematics. He is a member of the editorial committee of the journal Miscelánea Matemática, and has collaborated in many committees of the Mexican Mathematical Society and in organizing several conferences and academic events.