Rosa María Farfán

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Farfán and the second or maternal family name is Márquez.

Rosa María Farfán Márquez is a Mexican researcher in social epistemology and mathematics education, affiliated with CINVESTAV in the Instituto Politécnico Nacional.

Education and career

Farfán has been a researcher for CINVESTAV since 1985. She completed a doctorate through CINVESTAV in 1993, with the dissertation Construcción de la noción de convergencia en ámbitos fenomenológicos vinculados a la ingeniería: Estudio de caso, jointly supervised by Carlos Ímaz Janhke and Fernando Hitt.^[1] She was a postdoctoral researcher at Paris Diderot University before returning to CINVESTAV.^[2]

She became the founding editor in chief of the journal Revista Latinoamericana de Investigación en Matemática Educativa (Relime) in 1997,^[3] remaining editor until 2007.^[2]

Recognition

Farfán was elected to the Mexican Academy of Sciences in 2001.^[2][4]