Curriculum Vitae

Academic CV of Gonzalo G. Peraza Mues.
Updated

October 2026

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Experience

2023–present
Research ProfessorMonterrey, Mexico
School of Government and Public Transformation, and Fellow of the Center for the Future of Cities, Tecnológico de Monterrey
2023
Coordinator of Network Modeling and Spatial DataMonterrey, Mexico
Tecnológico de Monterrey
  • Implementation of an agent-based transport simulator for the Monterrey Metropolitan Area.
2022
Postdoctoral ResearcherMonterrey, Mexico
Institute for the Future of Education, with the Center for the Future of Cities, Tecnológico de Monterrey
2021–2022
Coordinator of Network Modeling and Spatial DataMonterrey, Mexico
School of Government and Public Transformation, Tecnológico de Monterrey
2018–2021
Director, Data Engineering ProgramYucatán, Mexico
Universidad Politécnica de Yucatán
  • Taught data science courses and led the design and updates of the program’s curriculum.

Education

2018
PhD in Theoretical Physics
Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del IPN (Cinvestav)
  • Thesis: Spontaneous rotation in vibrated disk packings
2012
MSc in Applied Physics
Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del IPN (Cinvestav)
2010
Physics Engineering (BSc)
Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, graduated with honors

Publications

Journal articles

2026
G. G. Peraza-Mues, E. Resendiz, R. Figueroa-Soriano, R. Prieto-Curiel, and R. Ponce-Lopez. Scaling and population loss in Mexican urban centres. Nature Communications 17, 9039. doi:10.1038/s41467-026-75780-5
2025
M. Cruz-Sandoval, F. Gómez-Zaldívar, G. Peraza-Mues, and R. Ponce-López. The interplay of economic complexity and urban sprawl in shaping socio-spatial segregation in Mexico. Applied Geography 181, 103690. doi:10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103690
2025
R. Turner, C. Higgs, C. Sun, …, G. Peraza-Mues, et al. Development and validation of the Global Urban Heat Vulnerability Index (GUHVI). Urban Climate 64, 102716. doi:10.1016/j.uclim.2025.102716
2025
C. Maia de Souza, R. Ponce-Lopez, G. G. Peraza-Mues, A. A. Dominguez-Cristerna, and E. J. Miller. Imputing informal workers for transportation modeling in Latin America by the use of machine learning techniques. Latin American Transport Studies 3, 100032. doi:10.1016/j.latran.2025.100032
2024
G. Peraza-Mues, R. Ponce-Lopez, J. A. Muñoz Sanchez, F. Cavazos Alanis, G. Olivera Martínez, and C. Brambila Paz. Income segregation analysis in limited-data contexts: A methodology based on iterative proportional fitting. Geographical Analysis 56(1), 79-96. doi:10.1111/gean.12367
2023
R. Ponce-Lopez, G. Peraza-Mues, F. Gómez-Zaldívar, J. Membrillo-Hernández, A. Acuña-López, and P. Caratozzolo. Knowledge based urban development: An approach to innovation districts based on education. Frontiers in Education 8, 1029234. doi:10.3389/feduc.2023.1029234
2022
H. A. Pacheco-Martinez, G. Peraza-Mues, F. Peñuñuri, and O. Carvente. Precursor nuclei on the bottom of a vibrating container: The onset of granular self-assembly crystallization. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 588, 126577. doi:10.1016/j.physa.2021.126577
2020
C. F. Moukarzel, G. Peraza-Mues, and O. Carvente. Rotational transport via spontaneous symmetry breaking in vibrated disk packings. Physical Review Letters 125(2), 028001. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.028001
2019
G. G. Peraza-Mues and C. F. Moukarzel. Sustained rotation in a vibrated disk with asymmetric supports. Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment 2019(10), 103201. doi:10.1088/1742-5468/ab417e
2017
G. G. Peraza-Mues, O. Carvente, and C. F. Moukarzel. Rotation in a gravitational billiard. International Journal of Modern Physics C 28(2), 1750021. doi:10.1142/S0129183117500218
2012
O. Carvente, G. G. Peraza-Mues, J. M. Salazar, and J. C. Ruiz-Suárez. Self-assembling of non-Brownian magnetized spheres. Granular Matter 14(3), 303-308. doi:10.1007/s10035-012-0333-4

Reports

2024
R. Madera Arends, A. Vazquez Brust, C. Piedrafita, G. G. Peraza-Mues, M. A. Scetta, and R. Ponce-Lopez. URSA: A tool to guide urban planning using satellite data. Inter-American Development Bank. doi:10.18235/0013065

Research projects

2026–present
SOFIAA Guadalajara: agent-based transportation model for the Guadalajara Metropolitan Area
Center for the Future of Cities, Tecnológico de Monterrey, with IMEPLAN (GTAModel)
  • Synthetic population and processing of the 2023 origin–destination survey.
2026–present
Instrumentos y herramientas para la revitalización de un polígono en la zona central de Saltillo, Coahuila
Center for the Future of Cities, Tecnológico de Monterrey, for the Municipality of Saltillo (IMPLAN Saltillo)
  • Quantitative analysis; geostatistical and econometric analysis at the census-tract (AGEB) level.
2026–present
Urban revitalization in the Monterrey Metropolitan Area
Center for the Future of Cities, Tecnológico de Monterrey; municipalities of Monterrey, Apodaca, and San Nicolás de los Garza
  • Analysis of the likelihood of successful revitalization, particularly in areas with access to mass transit.
2025–present
Resilient Coasts: A multi-disciplinary framework for assessing and mitigating coastal vulnerability in Mexico
Challenge-Based Research program, Tecnológico de Monterrey (PI H. Barrios)
  • Population exposure analysis (Guaymas case study).
2024–present
MexPop: multi-temporal population grids for Mexico (1990–2020)
Center for the Future of Cities, Tecnológico de Monterrey, with R. Figueroa-Soriano; in collaboration with R. Prieto-Curiel (Complexity Science Hub, Vienna)
  • Population grids for 69 metropolitan areas, the basis of the Nature Communications study on population loss in urban centres.
2025–present
Metropolitan scenario planning for Monterrey
Center for the Future of Cities, Tecnológico de Monterrey, and Consejo Nuevo León, with City Explained (CommunityViz)
  • Technical team; evaluated scenario-planning tools (CommunityViz, SILO) and prepared data for land-suitability and development scenarios.
  • Participatory workshops with state and municipal officials, business chambers, and experts.
2022–present
Agent-based transportation microsimulation for the Monterrey Metropolitan Area (TASHA/GTAModel, SOFIAA)
Tec Challenge-Based Research grant (2022, PI R. Ponce-Lopez) with the University of Toronto Transportation Research Institute and Consejo Nuevo León; continued with RTI International (USAID Net Zero Cities)
  • Synthetic population and origin–destination tables for travel-demand modeling.
2025
Publication on Amazonian cities (accessibility and remoteness)
Inter-American Development Bank, Housing and Urban Development Division (technical consultant)
2024–2025
Identification and characterization of urban settlements in the Amazon region
Inter-American Development Bank, Housing and Urban Development Division (consultant)
  • GIS analysis to map human settlements in the Amazon region.
  • Network metrics and accessibility analysis.
2024
Sistema de apoyo a la evaluación de proyectos de construcción residencial urbana
Consultancy for the Municipality of San Pedro Garza García (Secretaría de Desarrollo Urbano); project lead
2021–2024
Sistema de Información Urbano Metropolitano (SIUM) de Monterrey
School of Government and Public Transformation and Center for the Future of Cities, Tecnológico de Monterrey; funded by Fundación FEMSA
  • Open web platform on three decades of urban expansion in Monterrey, launched in April 2024.
2022–2023
Urban heat island assessment for resilient and sustainable planning
Inter-American Development Bank, Housing and Urban Development Division (algorithm developer)
  • Interactive dashboard for urban heat island assessment in Latin America.
  • Evaluation of mitigation strategies for urban heat islands.
2021–2022
Urban modeling algorithms for resilient and sustainable planning
Inter-American Development Bank, Housing and Urban Development Division (algorithm developer)
  • Interactive dashboard of urban growth in Latin America.
  • Urban growth simulator for scenario planning to 2050.

Teaching

2026
Probabilidad y estadística (AP6001)
Doctorado en Política Pública, School of Government and Public Transformation, Tecnológico de Monterrey
2025–2026
Ciencia de datos para políticas públicas (TC4036)
Master in Public Policy, School of Government and Public Transformation, Tecnológico de Monterrey
2023–2025
Ciencia de datos (TC4025)
Graduate course (including the Maestría en Economía Aplicada), School of Government and Public Transformation, Tecnológico de Monterrey
2026
Course design: Maestría en Planeación Urbana
School of Government and Public Transformation, Tecnológico de Monterrey
  • Course plans for Ciencia de datos urbanos y geográficos, Ciencia geoespacial para ciudades, Análisis espacial avanzado, and Simulación y modelado de ciudades.
2025
Course design: Futuros urbanos: datos, diseño y política pública
General education course, Tecnológico de Monterrey
  • With R. Ponce-Lopez and E. Resendiz.
2021–2022
Professional training for public agencies (remote), Tecnológico de Monterrey
  • Diseño de soluciones colaborativas a problemáticas territoriales, Instituto Nacional Electoral, 2022: blocks on territorial projects and urban land classification with Google Earth Engine.
  • Diplomado modules on big data and on storing and querying structured and unstructured data, 2021.
  • Courses for the state financial intelligence units of Chiapas and Baja California Sur (UIPE).
2021
Instructor, Master in Data Science & AI
Dev.F (online bootcamp)
  • Contributed to the design of the program’s curriculum.
2017–2021
Undergraduate courses, taught in English
Universidad Politécnica de Yucatán
  • Programming; probability and statistics; differential, integral, and multivariate calculus; statistical models; unsupervised learning; machine learning.
2016
Física e introducción a la fisicoquímica; Temas de matemáticas (undergraduate)
Facultad de Química, Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán

Student supervision

2026
Thesis advisor: Andrea Salinas Blancas
Maestría en Ciencia de Datos y Políticas Públicas, Tecnológico de Monterrey
  • Identificación de zonas para la instalación de sistemas de captación de agua de lluvia en el estado de Oaxaca mediante técnicas de aprendizaje no supervisado y análisis geoespacial
2026
Thesis advisor: Christian Amado Láscarez Salas
Tecnológico de Monterrey
  • Industrialización y salud mental: evidencia causal del impacto de nuevas plantas manufactureras en la tasa de suicidios municipal en México
2026
Applied policy report advisor: Andrea Victoria Vásquez Cantero
Master in Public Policy, Tecnológico de Monterrey
  • Hacia un modelo de vivienda asequible en la Ciudad de México
2025–present
Doctoral committee member: Mónica Belén Hernández-Bennettz
Doctorado en Política Pública, Tecnológico de Monterrey
2024–2026
Thesis examiner
  • Antonio Sebastián Villarreal, Doctorado en Política Pública, Tecnológico de Monterrey (defense scheduled for November 2026).
  • Cristian Peña Cárdenas, predoctoral exam, Doctorado Interinstitucional en Ciencias del Hábitat (UADY–UASLP), 2026.
  • Ricardo Soriano Garibay, Maestría en Ciencia de Datos y Políticas Públicas, Tecnológico de Monterrey, 2026.
  • Alberto Heredia, Maestría en Economía Aplicada, Tecnológico de Monterrey, 2025.
  • Guillermo Pérez Vallet, Maestría en Prospectiva Estratégica, Tecnológico de Monterrey, 2024.
  • Luis Enrique Cano Palafox, Maestría en Prospectiva Estratégica, Tecnológico de Monterrey, 2024.
2025–2026
Faculty mentor, thesis bootcamp (Bootcamp de Titulación)
Maestría en Ciencia de Datos y Políticas Públicas, Tecnológico de Monterrey
2024
Capstone project advisor (Proyecto Integrador), master’s students
Center for the Future of Cities, Tecnológico de Monterrey
2022–2024
Internship supervisor, Data Engineering students
Universidad Politécnica de Yucatán
  • Alexa Canché and Guillermo Montes de Oca (2022); Hugo Demian Zúñiga Medina (2024).

Conference presentations

2026
Keynote: Reescalamiento y pérdida de población en centros urbanos de MéxicoMérida, Mexico
6.º Congreso Internacional de Estudios sobre la Ciudad (PUEC, UNAM)
2026
[Talk title]Mexico City, Mexico
22nd International Conference on Urban Health (ICUH), International Society for Urban Health
2026
Developing and validating spatial indicators of cycling access and connectivity across diverse urban contexts globallyMérida, Mexico
International Society for Physical Activity and Health (ISPAH) Congress 2026
  • Co-author; with M. Abdollahyar, C. Higgs, A. Jafari, and the GOHSC cycling working group.
2026
Urban scaling and population drift: The case of MexicoTurin, Italy
CS2Italy: Italian Conference on Computational Social Science
2026
Poster: A preference-based urban expansion simulator for housing and employment growth: Methods and case study in the Monterrey Metropolitan Area, MexicoTurin, Italy
CS2Italy: Italian Conference on Computational Social Science
  • With N. Cadavid-Aguilar, S. Gutiérrez-Bernal, and U. Salazar De Urquidi.
2025
Assessing cell phone data for home–work mobility analysis: Evidence from the Mexico City Metropolitan AreaLondon, UK
International Conference on Computational Urban Planning and Urban Management (CUPUM)
  • With N. Cadavid-Aguilar and R. Ponce-Lopez; presented by R. Figueroa-Soriano.
2025
Building a multi-temporal urban population grid for Mexico: The why and the howLondon, UK
International Conference on Computational Urban Planning and Urban Management (CUPUM)
  • With R. Figueroa-Soriano, who presented.
2024
Imputing informal workers for transportation modelling in Latin America by the use of machine learning techniquesBogotá, Colombia
World Symposium on Transport and Land Use Research (WSTLUR)
  • With C. Maia de Souza, A. A. Domínguez-Cristerna, R. Ponce-Lopez, and E. J. Miller.
2023
Interactive dashboard to characterize urban sprawl in Latin America based on SLEUTHMontréal, Canada
International Conference on Computational Urban Planning and Urban Management (CUPUM)
  • With R. Ponce-Lopez, J. A. Torre, A. Vazquez Brust, M. A. Scetta, and C. Piedrafita.
2022
An implementation of SLEUTH as an open platform for doing scenario planning to predict urban growthMexico City, Mexico
Annual Meeting of the Society for Decision Making Under Deep Uncertainty (DMDU)
  • With R. Ponce-Lopez.

Invited talks and outreach

2026
Scaling and population loss in Mexican urban centresMexico City, Mexico
Presentation of the study to researchers from El Colegio de México and UNAM, with commentary by Diane Davis (Harvard GSD); Tecnológico de Monterrey
  • With R. Ponce-Lopez.
2026
Scaling and population loss in Mexican urban centersMexico City, Mexico
Research Seminar, School of Government and Public Transformation, Tecnológico de Monterrey
2025
Dinámicas de población al interior de 69 zonas metropolitanas de México con relación al modelo urbano vigenteMexico City, Mexico
Invited speaker, Academic Advisory Council (Consejo Consultivo Académico) of INEGI, second session of 2025
2025
Cuando el desarrollo separa: complejidad económica y segregación urbana en MéxicoSan Pedro Garza García, Mexico
Data Day Monterrey 2025, Software Guru
  • With F. Gómez Zaldívar.
2025
Cuando el desarrollo separa: complejidad económica y segregación urbana en MéxicoMérida, Mexico
MeriData meetup
2025
Cuando el desarrollo separa: complejidad económica y segregación urbana en MéxicoYucatán, Mexico
Engineering Week (Semana de Ingeniería), Universidad Politécnica de Yucatán
2024
Despoblación de los centros urbanos en México
Research Seminar, School of Government and Public Transformation, Tecnológico de Monterrey
2024
Sistema de Información Urbano Metropolitano: la expansión urbana de Monterrey en datos, hacia una discusión informadaSan Pedro Garza García, Mexico
Data Day Monterrey 2024, Software Guru
2024
URSA, herramienta open source para la planificación urbanaMérida, Mexico
ConCiencia Social Mérida (Data-Pop Alliance), CEPHCIS-UNAM
2023
URSA: sistema de apoyo para la planificación urbanaPuebla, Mexico
Urban Open Day, Tecnológico de Monterrey
2023
Aprenda a implementar la herramienta de código abierto Predicción de Crecimiento Urbano
Code for Development workshop, Inter-American Development Bank (online)
  • Co-presenter.
2023
Presentation of the URSA interactive dashboard
Tec Science Summit, cities track, Tecnológico de Monterrey
  • With R. Ponce-Lopez.
2022
pySleuth
Workshop of Tecnológico de Monterrey and the University of Toronto Transportation Research Institute (online)
2021
Calificación automática con Jupyter, Nbgrader y GitHub Classroom
1.er Congreso de Innovación en la Práctica y Enseñanza de las Disciplinas Científicas, Sociales y Humanas, Colegio de Bachilleres del Estado de Yucatán
  • With D. Gamboa Angulo.
2019
Forest fire prediction in YucatánMérida, Mexico
National Meeting of the Intel Innovation Labs Network (Red de Laboratorios de Innovación Intel)

Service

2026
Proposal evaluator, Strategic Research Projects 2026–2028
University of California Alianza MX
2026
Admissions committee, Maestría en Ciencia de Datos y Políticas Públicas
Tecnológico de Monterrey
2022–2026
Hiring and interview panels (fellows, postdoctoral researchers, staff)
Institute for the Future of Education and Center for the Future of Cities, Tecnológico de Monterrey
2025
Reviewer: Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science
2025
Program committee and reviewer, DISE track
Symposium on Information Management and Big Data (SIMBig 2025)
2025
Peer evaluator, Comités de Pares Académicos
SECIHTI, Estancias Posdoctorales por México 2025
2025–present
Member, Global Observatory of Healthy and Sustainable Cities (GOHSC)
Software working group (1000 Cities Challenge); Global Cycling Indicators project

Honors and awards

2023–present
National Researcher, Level I
National System of Researchers (SNII), Secihti, Mexico
2015
Doctoral Fellowship
National Council of Science and Technology (CONACyT), Mexico
2010
Cum Laude Distinction
Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán
2010
International Mobility ScholarshipMadrid, Spain
Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Training and certifications

2023
Summer University on Effective High-Performance Computing and Data AnalyticsLugano, Switzerland
Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) and Università della Svizzera italiana (USI)
2019
Project Management Certification, IPMA Level D
International Project Management Association
2018
Teaching by professional competencies and competency assessment (workshop)Yucatán, Mexico
Universidad Politécnica de Yucatán
2014
IV Summer School on Statistical Physics of Complex and Small SystemsPalma de Mallorca, Spain
Instituto de Física Interdisciplinar y Sistemas Complejos (IFISC)

Software and data

2026
Code and data for Scaling and population loss in Mexican urban centres
Multi-temporal population grid for Mexico and radial density functions. doi:10.5281/zenodo.20630381 · GitHub
2026
mxcensus
Mirror of Mexican census files with optional preprocessing and harmonization (Python).
2022–2024
URSA
Open-source tool to guide urban planning with satellite data, Inter-American Development Bank (co-developer).
2024
ghsldownloader
Python package with algorithms to delineate cities from Global Human Settlement Layer data.
2023
population-synthesis
Open-source tool to generate synthetic populations of households and persons from aggregate census data.
2022
income-segregation
Code and data for estimating income segregation from census and survey data with iterative proportional fitting.
2022
sleuth_python
Python implementation of the SLEUTH urban growth model.

Media

2026
Press coverage of Scaling and population loss in Mexican urban centres
2026
Gonzalo Peraza – Centro para el Futuro de las Ciudades
Video profile, School of Government and Public Transformation, Tecnológico de Monterrey
2026
Extreme heat doesn’t impact every city equally. This index shows where it is most dangerous
TecScience, April 2026; interviewed on the Global Urban Heat Vulnerability Index
2024
Una herramienta que transforma la movilidad
TecScience, Tecnológico de Monterrey
  • Feature on a mobility simulation tool for Monterrey; credited, with A. Romero, for key implementation work.
2024
Hacia el modelo de ciudad que queremos: Sistema de Información Urbano Metropolitano de Monterrey
Blog post with R. Ponce-Lopez, School of Government and Public Transformation, Tecnológico de Monterrey