Jorge Membrillo Hernández has a doctorate in Biotechnology from King's College in London (UK), as well as postdoctoral stays at the University of Sheffield (UK) and Harvard University (USA). He is currently a full time professor and researcher at the School of Engineering and Sciences at Tecnológico de Monterrey's Mexico City Campus, a full member of the Socially Oriented STEM Interdisciplinary Education Research Group at the Institute for the Future of Education, and Chair of the International Society for Engineering Pedagogy in Mexico.
Prof. Membrillo Hernández has 60+ published articles in indexed journals of disciplinary research and educational innovation. His research studies are mainly focused on challenge-based learning.