Meet the editor

Cruz Vargas-De-León is a Researcher in Medical Sciences at the Hospital Juárez de Mexico in Magdalena De Las Salinas, Mexico City. He has a bachelor's degree in mathematics (statistics), a master's degree in health sciences, a master's degree in complexity sciences, and a Ph.D. in health sciences. His research interests are biostatistical and biomathematical modeling for health. He has published more than 60 articles, 40 of them in

high-impact journals and JCR indexed. He has participated in the validation of surveys, randomized controlled trials, systematic reviews and meta-analyses, the construction of indices in medicine, the identification of immunological biomarkers in cancer and epidemiological studies, and the estimation of parameters of differential equation models. He received a certificate for highly cited research in *Mathematical Biosciences* (2016, Elsevier) and was awarded the Guillermo Soberón Guerrero State Award for Merit in Science and Technology (2016). His biography appeared in Marquis *Who's Who in the World*, Issue 30 (2013). Two of his articles received "excellent paper" awards from the National Program for Research Evaluation (2011-2014) in Italy. He has been a member of the National System of Researchers of Mexico's National Council of Science and Technology since 2015.
