Carmen Rojas Sandoval is a distinguished Archaeologist and Professor with a Master's and Bachelor's degree in Archaeology from the National School of Anthropology and History (ENAH) in Mexico. She serves as a Senior Scientific Research Professor at the INAH Center in Quintana Roo, part of the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH). Carmen holds advanced certifications in open water diving, technical diving, and cave diving, accredited by Technical Diving Instructors (TDI) and Global Underwater Explorer (GUE).

Carmen leads the "Mayan Aquatic Cemeteries" and "Holocene Archaeology in Quintana Roo" projects, and has officially registered over 50 archaeological and paleontological sites with INAH's Public Registry of Monuments and Archaeological Zones. She coordinated the documentation of more than 180 pre-Hispanic individuals in the cenotes of Quintana Roo and Yucatán, and managed the collection, study, and preservation of nine human skeletons dating back between 13,000 and 8,000 years, along with over 20 species of megafauna. Among these findings were the identification of a new genus of giant sloth and a new species of jaguar. Carmen is also actively involved in the inspection and monitoring of sites containing in situ archaeological and paleontological remains.

Carmen was a founder and co-director of the "Subaquatic Archaeological Atlas for the Registration, Study, and Protection of Cenotes in the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico." She has collaborated on various maritime research projects in the states of Quintana Roo, Veracruz, Campeche, and Baja California, as well as in the study of La Poza de la Becerra in Cuatrociénegas, Coahuila, and the Lower Papaloapan Basin.

She has served as a tenured professor of Underwater Archaeology in the Archaeology program at ENAH, as well as at Veracruz University and the Federal University of Pernambuco in Brazil. Carmen is also an invited professor for courses in prospection and excavation at ENAH. She actively engages in outreach activities, including curating the exhibition "Every Space Transforms," developing the underwater archaeology webpage for INAH, giving presentations at primary and secondary schools, training guides, and conducting guided tours.

Carmen was a National Geographic Society grantee, and the multidisciplinary teams she has led have received support from both national and international institutions and have been featured in several documentaries.