José Simental Rodríguez

I am an Investigador Asociado C (roughly eq. TT Assistant Professor) at the Instituto de Matemáticas  of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). I spent the Fall 2025 Semester at ICERM, in the program Categorification and Computation in Algebraic Combinatorics.

Broadly speaking, I am interested in Representation theory and its interactions with combinatorics and geometry. For more details see my research page. You can find my CV here (last updated: 5/5/23).

 You can reach me at simental [at] im [dot] unam [dot] mx. 

I am proudly in the Outlist, and I am a member of the Comisión Interna para la Igualdad de Género (CInIG) at IM-UNAM. 

Recent and upcoming activities

-With Lara Bossinger, Alfredo Nájera and Yadira Valdivieso we are organizing the Seminario Itinerante de Teoría de representaciones (y nudos), November 11--13, at the Instituto de Matemáticas in México City. 

-I'll be speaking at the VIII Encuentro de Álgebra y Teoría de Nudos in Talca, Chile, January 19--22 2027. 

-With Natalia Mantilla and Marlisha Sandoval, we are the local organizing committee of the 4 Encuentro de Mujeres Matemática Mexicanas,  to be held at UAM-Iztapalapa, February 9--12, 2027. 

-In Spring 2027, I'll be spending a month at CRM-Montréal as part of the New Frontiers at the Intersection of Combinatorics and Representation Theory semester program.

-I am part of the scientific committee of ICRA 23, to be held in the UK , August 1--11, 2028.