Irene Cruz-González Espinosa (born 1953) is a Mexican astronomer whose research interests include the nuclear activity in galaxies, the observation of galaxies and their insterstellar medium, star formation, and optical and infrared telescope instrumentation.
[1] She is a researcher and professor in the Institute of Astronomy at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).
She studied physics as an undergraduate at UNAM and worked on a BSc dissertation in astronomy supervised by Silvia Torres-Peimbert.
Afterwards Irene Cruz-González went to Harvard University for graduate study in astronomy, earning a master's degree in 1979 under the supervision of Giovanni Fazio and a Ph.D. in 1984.
[1][2] Her doctoral dissertation, Continuum distributions of active galactic nuclei, was supervised by John P.