Carlos Francisco Cabrera Carranza
Taking part
Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos. Vice-rectors’ meeting on university management and research, day 2.
He holds a doctorate in industrial engineering and a master's degree in geography, specialising in environmental management and planning, from the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, and is an environmental engineer and a fisheries engineer from the Universidad Nacional de Piura, which awarded him an honorary doctorate alongside the Universidad Nacional Daniel Alcides Carrión. He has forty years of teaching experience and is a level III RENACYT-CONCYTEC research lecturer. He has published more than a hundred research papers — twenty of them in Scopus — led forty-three funded projects and written six books on geography, education and the environment. He has taken part in international Erasmus projects, was a visiting lecturer at the University of Jena (Germany) and teaches on graduate programmes at several Peruvian universities; he held an OAS scholarship at the Universidad de Concepción (Chile) and an undergraduate scholarship from the AID project at the San Marcos faculty of biological sciences. His distinctions include Outstanding San Marcos Alumnus, the Order of the Bicentennial San Marcos Sun medal and the Order of the San Marcos Medal of Honour at the rank of Grand Officer, together with the 2024 San Marcos research prize and the National Environmental Responsibility Award; the Peruvian College of Engineers recognised his career on the thirtieth anniversary of his admission. An environmental consultant, at the faculty of geological, mining, metallurgical and geographical engineering he served as director of the graduate school, vice-dean for research and graduate studies, and dean across three terms. He concurrently serves as vice-rector for undergraduate academic affairs, a post he has held since 2021, and as vice-rector for research and graduate studies, which he has held since July 2026.