Professor Paz Alejandra Quintanar Isaías is a Full-Time Professor at the Biology Department of the Biological and Health Sciences Division of the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM) Iztapalapa Campus.

She is a graduate student at the National School of Biological Sciences. Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN) obtaining the degree of Biologist. She studied the Master of Science (Biology) by the Faculty of Sciences of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) in the Institute of Physics in the Faculty of Sciences of the UNAM. She obtained her doctorate in Biological Sciences by the UAM obtaining the University Merit Award.