Full-time Professor-Researcher at the School of Philosophy of the Panamerican Universidad, Mexico City. He is a member of the National System of Researchers, level 2, associate director of the Aquinas and the Arabs International Working Group (www.AquinasAndTheArabs.org), and editor of "Topics, Philosophy Magazine" (http://topicosojs.up.edu.mx). He is also a professor of Arab-Islamic philosophy in the Graduate Program in Philosophy at the National Autonomous University of Mexico and a professor of Islamic Thought at the Hebraic University of Mexico. He has been a Visiting Research Fellow at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas, Austin, and a Resident Research Fellow at the Center of Theological Inquiry, Princeton. His areas of specialty are Arabic and Islamic philosophy, ancient philosophy and its Arabic reception, as well as the transmission of Arabic philosophy to the Latin Middle Ages (13th century). He has published several books and specialized articles both in books and in national and foreign refereed and indexed magazines. The two most recent books on which he has served as co-editor and co-author are Philosophical Psychology in ArabicThought and the Latin Aristotelianism of the 13th Century (Paris, Vrin, 2013) and The Routledge Companion to Islamic Philosophy (London / New York, Routledge, 2016).