About me

I received my Bachelor's degree in physics from the Faculty of Science at the University of Colima in Colima, Mexico, where I obtained the Peña Colorada Prize for the best student of the graduating class and the Outstanding Academic Achievement Award. For the defense of my thesis on the detection of stealth scalar fields in General Relativity, I was awarded a graduation with honors as the only student in this field at the University of Colima. I am also the only foreign student to complete a Bachelor's degree at the Faculty of Science at the University of Colima. During my undergraduate studies, I co-authored a peer-reviewed article in Computational Physics.

I graduated with my master's and doctoral degrees in seismology from Northwestern University where I was awarded both the Graduate Student Research Award and the Graduate Student Teaching Award under the advice of Dr. Seth Stein. All of the chapters of my dissertation including the introduction have been published in peer-reviewed journals. As the only seismologist in the year, I was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, under which I continued my research together with Dr. Hitoshi Kawakatsu at the Earthquake Research Institute of the University of Tokyo.

After an interview held before the defense of my dissertation, I was offered a faculty position at the Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education at Ensenada (CICESE), where I am an Assistant Professor at the seismology department.

Contact

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