She holds a PhD in Social Sciences from FLACSO-Mexico and is a tenured professor at the Center for International Relations of the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). She is also coordinator of the Observatory of the Binational Relationship Mexico-United States and the Interdisciplinary Seminar of Analysis of Conjuncture and Social Prospective, both at the FCPyS-UNAM. She is currently a member of the executive committee of the Global South Caucus of the International Studies Association (ISA), co-coordinator of the working group Studies on the United States, CLACSO, member of the advisory board of the Acervo Histórico Diplomático de la SRE and of the Editorial Board of International Studies Perspectives, Oxford University Press. She did a postdoctoral stay at the North American Research Center, CISAN-UNAM. Her main research interests are: foreign policy effects of asymmetric international trade, trade relations and policies of the United States with Latin America, economic integration in Latin America, China's economic diplomacy. She is a member of the National System of Researchers, level 1.