Blanca Rosa Ruiz-Hernandez

Blanca Rosa Ruiz-Hernandez serves as an Adjunct researcher at the Institute for the Future of Education, Tecnológico de Monterrey (Campus Monterrey), and is an active member of the Socially Oriented Interdisciplinary STEM Education Research Group (SOI-STEM). Her work integrates agricultural engineering foundations with advanced pedagogical research in statistics and mathematics education.

Her academic credentials include:

• Agricultural Engineering from Universidad Autónoma Chapingo
• M.Sc. in Educational Mathematics from Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico City
• M.Sc. in Statistics and Operations Research from Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
• Ph.D. in Didactics of Mathematics from Universidad de Granada, Spain

Research focuses on Statistics Education (particularly parameter teaching transparency), Mathematics Education epistemology, and STEM career choice factors. She investigates historical conceptual development of mathematical ideas to address pedagogical challenges and improve student engagement in quantitative disciplines through socially relevant approaches.

Publication analysis reveals consistent emphasis on resolving didactic obstacles in statistics education, integrating historical perspectives into mathematics teaching, and mapping pedagogical innovations across physics and STEM fields. Her work consistently bridges theoretical research with classroom applications through dialogic frameworks.

She received the Premio a la Innovación Educativa (Educational Innovation Award) in 2010 from Tecnológico de Monterrey for her pedagogical contributions.

No publicly documented graduate student supervision or grant-funded projects are associated with her current position.

As part of SOI-STEM, she collaborates on interdisciplinary initiatives developing contextually relevant STEM curricula with social impact components, particularly in agricultural and environmental applications.