Francisco José Fernández Perrino has served as a professor in the Department of Biotechnology at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM) Iztapalapa Campus since 2000. He received his Ph.D. in Biology from the University of León (Spain), and he obtained, in 1999, the Extraordinary Doctorate Award from the Faculty of Biology of the University of León (Spain). He has received, on five occasions (2003, 2005, 2005, 2007, 2014, and 2016), the Teaching Award and two (2005 and 2012) Research Awards from the Division of Biological and Health Sciences (Iztapalapa Campus). In 2024, he received the Medal for Academic Merit from the Metropolitan Autonomous University. He has been a Mexican Academy of Sciences member and has belonged to the National System of Researchers of Mexico (Level II) since July 2001. Likewise, he has been a member of the expert base of the National Agency of Evaluation and Prospective (ANEP), Spain, since February 2016. Regarding research, his interests are focused on thegenetic engineering of industrial microorganisms, as well as obtaining compounds of interest using microorganisms.