Julio E. Rubio

Julio E. Rubio
Rubio Barrios en el Programa Sectorial de Cultura 2011-2016 del Estado de Oaxaca en ITESM-Campus Ciudad de Mexico
Born	Tijuana, Mexico
Education	PhD in Philosophy of Science
Occupation	researcher, administrator
Known for	research in epistemology of natural science, systems theory, and sociology of technology

Julio E. Rubio (full name: Julio Ernesto Rubio Barrios) is a Mexican researcher and administrator at Tecnológico de Monterrey.

Rubio is a Level I member of Mexico's National System of Researchers (SNI).

In 2009, Rubio was accepted as a member of the National Thematic Research Network on Science, Complexity and Society, Mexico.

Rubio received his PhD from the University of Valencia, Spain in 1999. He graduated cum laude, the highest distinction in Spain, for this dissertation The Construction of Scientific Knowledge: The Case for the Concept of Genetic Information (La construcción del conocimiento científico: el caso del concepto de información genética). In this work, Rubio argues that scientific knowledge is generated by communication systems that are distinguished by codes of formalization and interpretation of reality.

Rubio earned an MA in Philosophy of Science from the Metropolitan Autonomous University (UAM), Mexico. His thesis subject was Reductionism and Emergentism in the Hypercycle Theory (Reduccionismo y emergentismo en la teoría del hiperciclo).

Rubio has also earned MS in Physics from the University of Texas at El Paso. His undergraduate degree is in engineering from Tecnológico de Monterrey, Monterrey Campus.