Lilia Meza Montes (born in Puebla City, October 26, 1958) is a Mexican scientist dedicated to the study of Solid State Physics. She was the first woman to receive a doctoral degree from the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (1993), where she currently works at the Luis Rivera Terrazas Institute of Physics (IFUAP). Her commitment to promoting women’s participation in exact sciences and technology has led her to be an active member of several networks, including the IUPAP Working Group on Women in Physics and the Mexican Network on Science, Technology, and Gender.
She earned her Bachelor’s degree in Physics from the Autonomous University of Puebla, Mexico, with a thesis titled Real Fermi Surfaces (1983). At the same institution, she completed her Master’s in Solid State Physics, with the thesis Anisotropy in Superconductivity (1985), and her PhD in Science (Physics) at the Luis Rivera Terrazas Institute of Physics, with the dissertation Tunneling Phenomena in Nonequilibrium Semiconductors, which was awarded honorable mention (1993). She later completed a postdoctoral stay at Ohio University, USA (1995–1997), and has since been a Senior Researcher at IFUAP (from 1995 to the present).
As a result of her work in Solid State Physics, she has presented over a hundred papers at national and international conferences and published numerous research articles in peer-reviewed, indexed journals.
