Dr. Marco A. Mata-Gómez obtained his bachelor's degree as a pharmaceutical chemist biologist from the Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila in 2005. In 2008, he obtained a M.Sc. degree in biotechnology from the same university with a research stay in Minho University in Portugal. In 2012, he started his doctoral studies in biotechnology at Tecnologico de Monterrey in Mexico, and obtained his Ph.D. in 2016. During his doctorate, he participated as visiting scientist at the Downstream Processing Laboratory in Jacobs University-Bremen (Germany) for ten months.
After completing his doctorate, Marco joined the Biotechnology Department of Tecnológico de Monterrey, at Campus Puebla, where he worked as part-time professor. In September of 2017, Dr. Mata became full-time professor of the Bioengineering and Sciences Department in the same campus. He is a member of the Molecular and System Bioengineering Research Group, and leader of the strategic project BioMolecule Research Lab. He is interested in development of strategies for recovery and purification of proteins and antibiotics, microfluidic systems, and plant proteomics and metabolimics. Dr. Mata is member of the SNI-CONACYT, level 1.
Marco was national design team leader of the 2019 academic programs of the School of Engineering and Science. He participated in the design of several formative units. He has also participated in academic research NOVUS projects.
He is associate director of the Bioengineering Departament in Campus Puebla as well as assistant profesor teaching coursed realted to bioprocesses.
mmatag@tec.mx
