Education
Princeton University.
Princeton University.
His research has concerned knot theory, singularity theory, biomathematics, and differential topology. López de Medrano did his undergraduate studies at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, and earned his Doctor of Philosophy from Princeton University in 1969, under the supervision of William Browder. He returned to Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México as a researcher and professor in 1968, and was president of the Mexican Mathematical Society from 1969 to 1973.
López de Medrano presented his work on knot invariants at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1970.
In 2012, he became one of the inaugural fellows of the American Mathematical Society.