Curriculum Vitae

Situacion actual/Current situation/Situation actuelle

Profesor/ Lecturer, Facultad de Economía, UNAM

martha.alatriste@economia.unam.mx

A member of SNI-CONACYT

Office: Cubículo 126, 1er piso, edificio B, Facultad de Economía, Circuito Interior S/N, Coyoacán, Cd. Universitaria, 04510 Ciudad de México, CDMX.

Areas de interes/Areas of interest

Complex economics, computational economics, networks, industrial structure and structural change, statistical analysis, input-output analysis, industrial policy, diffusion of shocks, complex systems in general. 

EDUCATION

• 2011 - 2014: PhD  in economics, Thesis: Essays on the Structural Properties and Dynamics of the Economic System, GREQAM- Aix-Marseille University (Aix-Marseille School of Economics), CNRS , EHESS (France). PhD. Thesis director: Alan Kirman, co-director: Nobuyuki Hanaki, Jury: Giorgio Fagiolo, Doyne Farmer, and Jean-Benoit Zimmermann.

• 2009 - 2011: M.A. in Analyse et Politique Économiques, Essay: Evaluating the Impact of R&D at the Industry Level- A panel Data Analysis, École d´Économie de Paris-PSE. Supervisor: Romain Ranciére, Referee: Daniel Cohen

• 2008 – 2009: First year Graduate Studies on Environmental and Ecological Economics, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). 

• 2004 - 2009: B.A. in Economics, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). 

• January-June 2007: Academic abroad exchange program, B.A. in Economics, University of California, Campus San Diego (UCSD).  

SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS

• Languages: Spanish (native), English (100%), Frech (100%)

• Programming: Python (Scipy, NumPy, Pandas, Matplotlib, NetworkX, Scikit-learn, SimPy)

EMPLOYMENT

• 2024 - : Lecturer, Quantitative Methods, Facultad de Economía, UNAM

• 2017 - 2024: Associate Professor, Quantitative Methods, Facultad de Economía, UNAM

• November 2014 - December 2015: Postdoctoral research fellow, CIDE. Project:" The Atlas of Economic Complexity of Mexico"

• 2008-2009: Research Assistant, Economics Department UNAM

DISTINCTIONS AND SCHOLARSHIPS

• SNII I, CONAHCYT, January 2024 - December 2028.

• SNII I, CONACYT, January 2019 -December 2023.

• SNI, candidato, CONACYT. January 2017-December 2019.

• 2025 - Miembro del Comité Editorial de la Revista Investigación Económica, Facultad de Economía, UNAM

• 2022- 2024. Miembro del Comité Editorial de Publicaciones no Periódicas del Instituto de Investigaciones Economicas de la UNAM

• Miembro del padrón de tutores de Posgrado en Economía de maestría y doctorado, UNAM

• “Scholarship for graduate studies”, CONACyT. September 2013- October 2014.

• “Scholarship for graduate studies”, Fundación Olmeca-UNAM. August 2011- August 2013.

• “Scholarship for graduate studies”, Fundación Olmeca-UNAM. August 2009- June 2011.

• “Scholarship for Specialization Studies”, DGAPA, UNAM Mexico. August 2008- June 2009

• “Undergraduate Thesis Scholarship”, DGAPA, UNAM Mexico, PAPIIT Project: “Mexican labour markets”. January-December 2008.

• “Abroad Exchange scholarship” granted by the National Autonomous University of Mexico. January-March 2007 and April-June 2007.

• “Miguel Velez Scholarship”. International House, University of California San Diego. January-June 2007.

REFEREE FOR/ACTIVITÉS DE RÉFÉRÉ

Scientific Reports, Journal PLOS ONE, Physical Review E, Physica A, Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination, Social Network Analysis, Applied Network Science, Regional Studies, Economic Systems Research, Investigación Economica.

TEACHING/ENSEIGNEMENT

• Statistics, masters in economics, Graduate program in Economics, UNAM (2025 - )

• Mathematics I, masters in economics, Graduate program in Economics, UNAM (2024 - )

• Statistics, Facultad de Economía, UNAM (2023 -)

• Mathematics II (Linear algebra), Facultad de Economía, UNAM (2017 -2024)

• Mathematics I (Calculus), Facultad de Economía, UNAM (2017 -2024)

• Introduction to quantitative methods, Facultad de Economía, UNAM (2017 -)

• Complex economics, Posgrado de Economia, Facultad de Economia, UNAM (2016)

• Microeconomía II, Facultad de Economía, UNAM (2015-2016)

• Métodos básicos de economía de la complejidad, Posgrado de Economía, Facultad de Economía, UNAM (2015)

RESEARCH VISITS

• Research visit to Centro de Ciencias de la Complejidad (C3), UNAM. 2016

• Center for International Development, Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, MA. From 11 to 29 of August 2014.

• Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) at Oxford, Oxford Martin School, Said Business School, Oxford University. Visiting J. Doyne Farmer from September 24 to September 28 2012.

• Laboratory of Economics and Management at Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy. Visiting Giorgio Fagiolo from February 1st to March 31st 2013.

ADDITIONAL TRAINING

• "Advanced Graduate Workshop in Computational Social Science Modeling and Complexity,” Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, June 21 to July 3, 2015.  

• "Getting Inside the Black Box: Technological Evolution and Economic Growth," Santa Fe Institute-INET, 13 de Agosto, 2013, Santa Fe, NM

• "19th  Annual Graduate Workshop in Computational Social Science Modeling and Complexity", Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe,16 June to 29 June, 2013.

•  “Workshop: Heterogeneity and Networks in Financial Markets”, GREQAM, Centre Forbin, Aix-en-Provence, Mars 23 2012

•  “Networks in Nature and Technology Workshop.” Institut de Systèmes Complexes. Paris-Île de France. June 24, 2010.

•  “Decision Making and Risks in Complex Environments Workshop.” Institut de Systèmes Complexes. Paris-Ile de France. April 29, 2010

• “La question de la modélisation en sciences sociales.” École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Méthodes et Techniques des Sciences Sociales. 2010.

•  “Systèmes Complexes”. École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Méthodes et Techniques des Sciences Sociales, 2010.

• “Políticas heterodoxas para el desarrollo y la paz en América Latina.” XVIII Conferencia Internacional de la AFEIEAL. Ciudad Universitaria, UNAM. April, 2009.

• “Políticas Públicas en contra de la desigualdad y la pobreza,” Economics Department, UNAM. Mexico, October 2008.

• “Thinking of the Present by Considering the Future: Four Lectures on Economics, the Environment and Public Policy”. Economics Department. UNAM, Mexico, September 24-26, 2008.

PRESENTATIONS

• 2024. "Propiedades estructurales de la red productiva de Mexico”. Seminario de Análisis de la Estructura Económica de México, 29 de noviembre de 2024, División de Estudios Profesionales, Facultad de Economía, UNAM.

• 2024. ”El Análisis de redes complejas descubre la reconfiguración de la economía mexicana,” Primera Conferencia Internacional de la Revista Investigación Económica, 13 de Noviembre 2024.

• 2024. ”Procesos de desindustrialización en redes productivas en México,” VI Jornadas Interdisciplinarias en Sistemas Complejos Modelos matemáticos y computacionales, El Instituto de Investigaciones Economicas y sociales del sur (IIESS) y el Instituto de Matemáticas de Bahia Blanca (INMABB), UNS-CONICET, 15 de Octubre 2024.

• 2024, "Modelación estadística para la previsión de variables económicas", Seminario Juan F. Noyola, Posgrado en Economía, UNAM

• 2022.``La estructura de las economías de América del Sur'', Seminario de Economía Matemática, Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas, UNAM.

• 2022. ``A mathematical model for the dynamics of sectoral final demand'', Seminario del Grupo de Investigación en Dinámica Económica (GIDE), Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y de Administración, Universidad de la República, Uruguay.

• 2021. ``The effectiveness of economic policies to promote growth. The case of Mexico.'' Rethinking Economics.

• 2020. ``The impact of a sectoral shock in the North America Production Network.'' Social Simulation Week, European Social Simulation Association and Behave of the Department of Social and Political Sciences of the University of Milan

• 2018. ``Difusión de diferentes tipos de perturbaciones sectoriales en la economía francesa'', Seminario semestral campos de Teoría y Método y de Desarrollo Económico, Posgrado en Economia, Facultad de Economía UNAM.

• 2018 "Taller metodológico: Big Data para el estudio de la CTI ", Academia LALICS / YSI-INET 2018, 04/11/2018 

• “Structural change and economic dynamics: approaches from the complexity”, Taller Multidisciplinario en Sistemas Complejos, Centro Universitario Regional del Este de la Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay, October 10 to November 1st, 2017.

• “The Impact of Final Demand and Technology Shocks on the French Input-Output Network”, 22nd International Input-Output Conference, July 14-18, 2014, Lisbon, Portugal

• "Diffusion of Resources in the French Input-Output Network", Getting Inside the Black Box: Technological Evolution and Economic Growth, Santa Fe Institute-INET, 13 August, 2013, Santa Fe, NM 

• "Global Centrality, Key Sectors, and Diffusion of Resources in an Input-Output Network: Evidence from France", 21st International Input-Output Conference, July 7-12, 2013, Kitakyushu, Japan 

• “Applying centrality Measures to Identify Key Sectors in an Economy: Evidence from France”. INET at Oxford, September 28 2012.

• “The Diffusion of Resources in the Input-Output Network based on Authority-Hub Scores”. Groupe de travail interactions, GREQAM, Aix-en Provence. May 11, 2012

•  “Decent work in Mexico, 2006-2007”, presented in the 6th National Conference, Mexican Labour Studies Association. Queretaro, Mexico. May 21th-23th 2008. 

PREPRINTS

• “The Impact of Final Demand and Technology Shocks on the French Input-Output Network”, presented at the 22nd International Input-Output Conference, July 14-18, 2014, Lisbon, Portugal

• Alatriste-Contreras, Martha G. and Giorgio Fagiolo (2014). "Propagation of Economic Shocks in Input-Output Networks: A Cross Country Analysis." ArXiv: 1401.4704

• The most important sectors in the European Union and the intra-European Union trade, 2015

• Lugo, Igor and Martha G. Alatriste-Contreras(2020). Intervention strategies with 2D cellular automata for testing SARS-CoV-2 and reopening the economy, preprint, Research Square, DOI:10.21203/RS.3.RS40739/V1 HTTPS://WWW.RESEARCHSQUARE.COM/ARTICLE/RS-40739/V1

• Alatriste-Contreras, Martha G. and Igor Lugo. “Complex network analysis reveals key countries in the South America production structure.” Working paper available at Research Square

• Lugo, Igor y Martha G. Alatriste-Contreras. “An Experiment with Electric Guitar Signals for Exploring the Virtuosity based on the Entropy of Music,” arXiv:2404.16259v1 [cs.SD] 25 Apr 2024

• Lugo; Igor y Martha G. Alatriste Contreras. “Pièces de viole des Cinq Livres and their statistical signatures: the musical work of Marin Marais and Jordi Savall,” arXiv preprint 2024 16259.

• Alatriste-Contreras, Martha G. and Emilio Alvarez. "Diffusion analysis of inflationary shocks in the Mexican economy. A study using dynamic network analysis." Research Square, https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-5633884/v1, 2025.

PUBLICATIONS

• Abraham, Ernest, Marcelo Olivera and Martha G. Alatriste Contreras (2008). “El uso racional del agua de riego en México: entre la eficiencia y la institucionalidad.” Revista Nicolaita, Vol. III issue 1 p. 49-66. Universidad de Michoacán, Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas y Empresariales. México 

• Alatriste Contreras, Martha G. and Giorgio Fagiolo (2014) "Propagation of Economic Shocks in Input-Output Networks: A Cross Country Analysis." Physical Review E, vol. 90, issue 6, pages 062812. See a note of the paper on Focus: http://physics.aps.org/articles/v7/130

• Alatriste-Contreras, Martha G. (2015). "The relationship between the key sectors in the European Union Economy and the intra-European Union trade", Journal of Economic Structures, 4 (14), Springer

• Alatriste-Contreras, Martha G., J. Gabriel Brida y Martin Puchet Anyul. “Structural change and economic dynamics: rethinking from the complexity approach”, Journal of Dynamics and Games AIMS, 6(2), pp. 87-106, doi: 10.3934/jdg.2019007, 2019.

• Lugo I, Alatriste-Contreras MG (2019) Nonlinearity and distance of ancient routes in the Aztec Empire. PLoS ONE 14(7): e0218593. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0218593

• Contreras-Zentella ML, Sánchez-Sevilla L, Suárez-Cuenca JA, Olguín-Martínez M, Alatriste-Contreras MG, García-García N, et al. (2019) The role of oxidant stress and gender in the erythrocyte arginine metabolism and ammonia management in patients with type 2 diabetes. PLoS ONE, 14(7): e0219481. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0219481

• Alatriste-Contreras, Martha G. (2020), “Detecting diffusion properties of sectors in the Mexican Economy”, Investigación Económica, UNAM. Vol. 79, No. 311. DOI: 10.22201/fe.01851667p.2020.311.72438. 

• Lugo, I. and Alatriste-Contreras, Martha G. (2020). Horseback riding pathways and harbors at the beginning of the colonial era in Mexico. Scientific Reports 10, 10466. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-67523-3

• Lugo, I., Martha G. Alatriste-Contreras and Denise Pumain (2020). The role of ports in dynamics of urban hierarchies. Maritime Policy and Management, Routledge Taylor and Francis; https://doi.org/10.1080/03088839.2020.1803429 

• Alatriste-Contreras, Martha G. and Martín Puchet Anyul (2021). The Spreading of Shocks in the North America Production Network and Its Relation to the Properties of the Network. Mathematics, 9(21), 2021.

• Lugo, I. and Martha G. Alatriste-Contreras (2022). Intervention strategies with 2D cellular automata for testing SARS-CoV-2 and reopening the economy. Scientific Reports, Nature, 12, 13481 (2022).

• Alatriste-Contreras, Martha G. and Igor Lugo (2022). “Strategic sectors and the diffusion of the effect of a shock in Mexico for 2008 and 2012”, Journal of Economic Structures, Springer, 11, 23.

• Lugo, Igor and Martha G. Alatriste Contreras (2024). “Musical composition based on skewed statistical distributions of stochastic processes.” Visual and Performing arts, Cogent arts and Humanities, 11(1).

• Contreras-Zentella, Martha Lucinda, Martha G. Alatriste-Contreras, Juan A. Suarez-Cuenca and Rolando Hernandez-Munoz (2024). “Gender effect of glucose, insulin/glucagon ratio, lipids, and nitrogen-metabolites on serum HGF and EGF levels in patients with diabetes type 2.” Frontiers Molecular Biosciences, Cellular Biochemistry, Vol. 11.

• Lugo, Igor and Martha G. Alatriste-Contreras (2025). "Statistical regularities in the musical work of Marin Marais, Pièces de viole des Cinq Livres", Computational Statistics - Predicting the Future from Sample Data, IntechOpen

• Lugo, Igor and Martha G. Alatriste-Contreras (2025). "Musical composition and 2D cellular automata based on music intervals,” Complex Systems, accepted and forthcoming.

OTHER ACTIVITIES

• 2024. Coordinadora académica del seminario “Seminario Anual del Campo de Conocimiento de Teoría y Método”, Campo Teoría y Método, Posgrado de Economía, Facultad de Economía, UNAM, enero 2024.

• 2023. Coordinadora académica del seminario “Análisis de la dinámica de la economía mexicana”, Campo Teoría y Método, Posgrado de Economía, Facultad de Economía, UNAM, mayo 2023.  

• 2015. Coordinadora de la conferencia “Complex Economics”, Professor Alan Kirman (EHESS), 13/11/2015, Facultad de Economía, UNAM.