Project Team

Prof. Dr. Sebastian Vollmer
Project head
Professor of Development Economics

• Affiliation: Chair of Development Economics/ Centre for Modern Indian Studies (CeMIS)
• Research interests: Linkages between poverty and health in low- and middle-income countries

Nina Eisenburger
Project Coordinator
Doctoral Student at the German Sport University Cologne

• Affiliation: Chair of Development Economics/ Centre for Modern Indian Studies (CeMIS)
• Research interests: Health Promotion, Psychosocial and Mental Aspects of Health

Dr. Juan José Alpuche Osorno
Professor of Biochemistry

• Affiliation: Research Center Faculty of Medicine UNAM-UABJO, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery
• Research interests: Basic biochemistry of energetic metabolism and innate immunology in invertebrates

Dr. Juan Ricardo López Y Taylor
Professor of the subject: Design of Physical Activity and Health Programs.

• Affiliation: Department of Human Movement Sciences, Education, Sports, Recreation and Dance
• Research interests: Exercise physiology and physical activity

Dr. Edtna Jauregui Ulloa
Professor of Health Promotion and Counseling; Exercise prescription in chronic disease; Intervention Program Design.

• Affiliation: Institute of Sciences Applied to Physical Activity and Sport (ICAAFYD), Jalisco Health Services (SSJ)
• Research interests: Health promotion, Exercise as medicine

Dr. Willy W. Cortez
Professor of Economics.

• Affiliation: Department of Quantitative Methods
• Research focus: In general, problems associated with poverty and inequality in income distribution: economics of crime, public health, labor market informality, and economic growth

Dr. Rafael S. Espinosa Ramirez
Professor of Economics.

• Affiliation: Department of Economics
• Research focus: International economics, psychology and economics, and institutional economics

Dr. Baruch Ramírez Rodríguez
Professor of statistics, econometrics, microeconometrics, poverty and inequality.

• Affiliation: Department of Quantitative Methods
• Research interest: Economic development issues, particularly poverty, labor market and health economics

Dr. Isai Guizar Mateos
Professor of Economics.

• Affiliation: Department of Economics
• Research focus: Applications of numerical methods and microeconometrics to the analysis of financial development and risk management issues in developing countries