Castro-Félix, Elvia Guadalupe

Dr. Elvia Castro is the Director of the Academic Delegation at Tec de Monterrey in Boston. She is currently based at Tufts University, MA, United States. Previously, she was appointed at Harvard University for a three-year term (2020 to 2023). She has been a Doctor in Science Education (minor in Data Science) since 2011. As a researcher, she is part of the American Educational Research Association (AERA, 2022), American Society for Engineering Education (2017), International Leadership Association (2018) and the International Association for Social Network Analysis (2018). Her main lines of investigation are Prospective Studies and Data Science, Leadership Education, Social Network Analysis, and Education in Global Contexts. She has served as a professor at the School of Engineering and Sciences, professor Business School, Division Director at the School of Engineering and Sciences, Associate Director of Engineering and Sciences, and Research Director at Tec de Monterrey since 2016. She completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Department of Education at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom (2014-2016) and was a visiting professor at the University of California, LA (2009-2010). Dr. Castro has worked professionally for more than 20 years in the Education, Food (PEPSICO, Domecq), Electronics-IT (FESTO, Esslingen plant in Germany) and Automotive (Yazaki, Japan) sectors. She has had the opportunity to work in Mexico, the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, and Japan. She has led academic and collaborative projects with the University of Oxford (UK), University of Stuttgart (Germany), University of Osaka (Japan), Harvard University (USA), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA) and the University of California (USA). She is fluent in Spanish, English and German. Dr. Castro is a very committed person within the field of Education who has accumulated experience in internationalization and global networks, conducting comparative studies in innovative models with several universities and companies around the world.