Melina Gastelum has a degree in Physics from the Faculty of Sciences of the UNAM, a master in Philosophy of Science with a specialty in philosophical and social studies of science and technology, as well as a doctorate in Philosophy of science with a specialty in philosophy of science cognitive by the UNAM. She also has a master's degree in Philosophy, Science and Values from the UPV / EHU.

She is a full-time professor-researcher at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the UNAM and also a professor of the postgraduate degree in Philosophy of Science at the UNAM. Her topics of study are about perception within radical embodied cognitive science, in particular temporal experience, learning, and affective intentionality within enactivism and theories of ecological psychology. She has published on the enactive hermeneutics of space and time and phenomenology, as well as on temporality and scales within the perception of affordances, also on affordances and science, technology and material culture in multicultural environments. She has several articles on the matter and has also directed several bachelor's, master's and doctorate theses in related topics. She has been a member of the National System of Researchers in Mexico since 2020.