Mauricio Sales-Cruz (PhD in Chemical Engineering) is professor and researcher at the Department of Process and Technology, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana-Cuajimalpa, Mexico (from 2006). He is currently the Director of the Natural Science and Engineering Division, He was a guest professor at the CAPEC, Technical University of Denmark (2014-2015). He was Head of the Department of Process and Technology, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana-Cuajimalpa, Mexico (2009-2013). He worked at the National Development Support for Handicrafts (FONART- for the development of combustion systems potters LP gas furnaces, in Mexico (1995-2000). He worked as a researcher at the Mexican Petroleum Institute (2000-2001), as professor at the Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico (1994-1995) and at the Universidad del Valle de Mexico (1993-1996), and as a guest researcher in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials, University of Cagliari, Italy (1992). His areas of research interest are: transfer of heat, momentum and mass; modeling, analysis, design and simulation of chemical processes; and modeling and process design / chemical and biochemical computer assisted. Among the awards and honors he has received recognition of academic merit for the master's degree awarded by the UAM-Iztapalapa (2001), recognition Who's Who in Science and Engineering awarded by the Editorial Marquis (2006), and recognition "Most cited author 2006 -2009" award for Chemical Engineering R&D.