Education
• Doctorate in Applied Sciences: Nanoscience and Nanotechnology.
01/08/2005 – 17/12/2009
Instituto Potosino de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica. San Luis Potosí, Mexico.
Thesis: Synthesis and new properties of nanostructured zinc oxide, carbon and other layered materials
Thesis Supervisors: Humberto Terrones, Florentino López Urías & Mauricio Terrones
Field: theoretical–experimental study of materials at the nanometric scale
• Physics Engineer.
Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico
Filed: Computational Physics and Nature-inspired algorithms
Work Experience
• Assistant Professor 31/07/2017 – 15/12/2022
Institute of Physics, National Autonomous University of Mexico
• Research Associate 04/07/2016 – 30/06/2017
Cambridge Graphene Centre, University of Cambridge, UK
Supervisor: Andrea C. Ferrari
Role: Leader of the Sub-group of theory and simulation of two-dimensional materials
• Project Researcher 1/09/2015 – 30/06/2016
University of Louvain, Belgium
Supervisor: Jean-Christophe Charlier
Project: Two dimensional materials for thermoelectric applications
• FNRS Researcher 1/09/2012 – 31/08/2015
University of Louvain, Belgium
Project: Effect of strain on the physical properties of carbon nanostructures
• Postdoctoral researcher 24/02/2010 – 31/08/2012
University of Louvain, Belgium
Supervisor: Jean-Christophe Charlier
Project: Transport in carbon nanostructures