Profile
"There is no substitute for hard work."
- Thomas Alva Edison
Academic Experience & Education
Tenured Researcher (2017-Present). Department of Physics, Cinvestav. Similar to Associate Professor.
Visiting Scientist on Sabbatical (2021-2022). Department of Physics of Complex Systems, Weizmann Institute of Science.
Tenure-Track Researcher (2015-2017). Department of Physics, Cinvestav. Similar to Assistant Professor.
Postdoctoral Fellow (2013-2015). Department of Physics of Complex Systems, Weizmann Institute of Science. Research Leader: Prof. Ulf Leonhardt
Visiting PhD Student (Jan-Apr 2013). Department of Physics of Complex Systems, Weizmann Institute of Science. Host: Prof. Ulf Leonhardt
Visiting PhD Student (Jul-Aug 2011). Department of Theoretical Physics, Atomic Physics and Optics, University of Valladolid. Host: Prof. Javier Negro
PhD Student (2010-2013). Department of Physics, Cinvestav. Advisor: Prof. David J. Fernández C.
MSc Student (2008-2010). *Best Graduate Student Award. Department of Physics, Cinvestav. Advisor: Prof. David J. Fernández C.
BSc Student (2004-2008). *Best Graduate Student Award. Faculty of Physics, University of Zacatecas (2008). Advisor: Prof. Iván Moreno
"Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge."
- Carl Sagan
Grants
Marcos Moshinsky Grant (2024-2025), awarded by Instituto de Física, UNAM and the Marcos Moshinsky Foundation.
Research Grant (2021-2023), awarded by Conahcyt (Mexican Council of Humanities, Science and Technology).
Research Grant (2019-2020), awarded by Fondo SEP-Cinvestav.
"Jinich Postdoctoral Fellowship" (2013-2015), awarded by the Weizmann Institute of Science and Board Member Armando Jinich.
Postdoctoral Fellowship (2013-2014), awarded by Conahcyt.
Visiting Student Fellowship (2013), awarded by the Weizmann Institute of Science.
PhD Fellowship (2008-2013), awarded by Conahcyt.
Fellowship for "Best Academic Performance" (2007-2008), at the Faculty of Physics, awarded by the University of Zacatecas.
"You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war."
- Albert Einstein
Awards & Achievements
Researcher Status SNI-2 (2022-2025). Appointed part of the National System of Researchers (SNI) Level 2. Conahcyt, Mexico.
Marcos Moshinsky Chair (2024-2025). Awarded by Instituto de Física, UNAM and the Marcos Moshinsky Foundation.
2nd place, Leonard Rieser Young Scientist Award (2022). Awarded by the Interciencia Association at the Latin-American level.
Outstanding Reviewer (2021). Journal Classical and Quantum Gravity, Institute of Physics (IOP), United Kingdom.
Trusted Reviewer (2020,2021). Awarded by the Institute of Physics (IOP), United Kingdom.
Editors' Suggestion in Physical Review Letters (2019). Co-author of the article, awarded by the American Physical Society.
Research Grant (2019-2020). "Análogo de la radiación de Hawking en fibras ópticas", awarded by Fondo SEP-Cinvestav.
Outstanding Reviewer (2019). Given by the Journal of Physical Communications, Institute of Physics (IOP), United Kingdom.
Researcher Status SNI-1 (2015-2017, 2018-2021). Appointed part of the National System of Researchers (SNI) Level 1. Conahcyt, Mexico.
State Youth Award (2015). In the category of Academic Trajectory, appointed by the State Government of Zacatecas, Mexico.
Academic Excellence (2014). "Ambassador of Public Education," awarded by the National Teachers Union (SNTE). Zacatecas, Mexico.
Academic Merit (2011), selected to give the "Cinvestav Commencement Speech for 2011". Cinvestav, Mexico.
Best Graduate Award (2011). M. Sc. in Physics, Department of Physics, Cinvestav. Mexico City, Mexico.
Best Graduate Award (2008). B. Sc. in Physics, Faculty of Physics, University of Zacatecas. Zacatecas, Mexico.
Academic Excellence Award (2007), awarded by the Faculty of Physics of the University of Zacatecas.
First Place in State Physics Olympiad (2003), awarded by the Mexican Physical Society (SMF). Zacatecas, Mexico.
First Place in State Mathematics Olympiad (2003), awarded by the Mexican Mathematical Society. Zacatecas, Mexico.
"Not only is the universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think."
- Werner Heisenberg
Teaching activities
Introduction to Quantum Effects in Gravity, elective course, MSc in Physics, Cinvestav, 2023.
Quantum Optics, elective course, MSc & PhD in Physics, Cinvestav, 2023.
Introduction to Quantum Effects in Gravity, elective course, MSc in Physics, Cinvestav, 2021.
Quantum Mechanics 1, core course, MSc in Physics, Cinvestav, 2020.
Quantum Mechanics 1, core course, MSc in Physics, Cinvestav, 2019.
Introduction to Quantum Effects in Gravity, elective course, MSc in Physics, Cinvestav, 2018.
Quantum Mechanics 1, core course, MSc in Physics, Cinvestav, 2017.
Quantum Mechanics 1, core course, MSc in Physics, Cinvestav, 2016.
"Physics is the only profession in which prophecy is not only accurate but routine."
- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Reviewer
Member of the Editorial Board of Revista Mexicana de Física, for the period 2021-2023.
Physical Review Letters, since 2023.
Communications Physics, since 2021.
European Physics Letters, since 2020.
Physica Scripta, since 2020.
Universe, since 2020.
Classical and Quantum Gravity, since 2019.
Journal of Optics, since 2019.
Physical Review A, since 2019.
Communications in Nonlinear Sciences and Numerical Simulations, since 2019.
Optics Express, since 2019.
Physica Scripta, since 2019.
Revista Mexicana de Física, since 2018.
Applied Optics, since 2018.
Journal of Physical Communications, since 2018.
Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, since 2017.
Physics Letters A, since 2015.
Optics Letters, since 2014.
Mathematical Review, since 2014.
Journal of Mathematics, since 2013.
SEP, PRODEP profiles in 2019.
Conahcyt, PNPC in 2018, 2020, Postdoctoral fellowships in 2018, 2021-2023, Scientific projects in 2020, 2023, 2023, Sabbatical stays 2023.
"If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses."
- Henry Ford
Academic Activities
Organizer of the Bogdan Mielnik Chair (since 2023). Department of Physics, Cinvestav, Mexico.
Organizer of the 60th Anniversary Celebration of the Department of Physics (April-July 2021), Cinvestav, Mexico.
Organizer of the Colloquium (2020-2021). Department of Physics, Cinvestav, Mexico City, Mexico.
Organizer of the Gravitation and Mathematical Physics Seminar (2017-2019). Department of Physics, Cinvestav, Mexico City, Mexico.
Organizing committee: Advanced Summer School 2015-2018 (July of each year for a total of four times 2015-2018). Department of Physics, Cinvestav, Mexico City, Mexico.
Organizing committee: Quantum Fest 2011 (November 2011). Department of Physics, Cinvestav, Mexico City, Mexico.