Short academic CV. For publications, software, and presentations, see the Research section.
Research positions
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2025–Present. Postdoctoral Research Fellow.
Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA-CSIC), Granada, Spain.
Joint affiliation: Instituto de Ciencias del Espacio (ICE-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain.
Funded through the Horizon Europe MSCA-COFUND programme
ALLIES – Artificial inteLLigence In sustainable dEvelopment goalS (Grant Agreement No. 101126626).
Project: Generative deep learning for stellar observations and exoplanet detection with PLATO.
Supervisors: Javier Pascual Granado and Aldo Serenelli. -
2023–2025. Postdoctoral researcher.
Geneva Observatory, Department of Astronomy, University of Geneva, Switzerland.
NCCR PlanetS, Swiss National Science Foundation.
Project: Deep learning in exoplanet detection.
Supervisor: Xavier Dumusque. -
2021–2023. Postdoctoral researcher.
Instituto de Ciencias Físicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico.
Funded through the CONACYT National Postdoctoral Grant.
Project: Statistical and machine learning methods in observational cosmology.
Supervisor: José Alberto Vázquez.
Honors and memberships
- Horizon Europe MSCA-COFUND ALLIES Fellowship (2025–2027).
- Visiting professor (2023–2026). CICATA, Instituto Politécnico Nacional.
- SNI Candidate. Sistema Nacional de Investigadores (2022–2026).
- CONACYT National Postdoctoral Grant (2021–2023).
- Memberships: PoeT WG1 (2026), PlanetS WG B7 (2023–2025), and CosmoVerse WG2 (2024–2025).
Research stays
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2025 (1 week). Visiting researcher.
Instituto de Ciencias del Espacio (ICE-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain.
Deep learning in exoplanet detection.
Host: Manuel Perger. -
2020 (8 months). Visiting PhD student.
Kavli Institute for Cosmology, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Bayesian inference and reversible nested sampling.
Remote stay due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Host: Will Handley. -
2018 (2 months). Visiting PhD student.
Instituto de Ciencias Físicas, UNAM, Mexico.
Algorithms in cosmology.
Host: José Alberto Vázquez. -
2018 (2 months). Visiting PhD student.
Instituto de Física y Matemáticas, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Mexico.
Cosmological parameter estimation with the Cosmosis code.
Host: Ulises Nucamendi.
Education
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PhD in Advanced Technology.
CICATA-Legaria, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico.
Associate PhD student at Instituto de Ciencias Físicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM).
PhD thesis: Artificial Neural Networks in Bayesian Inference.
Advisors: Ricardo García Salcedo and José Alberto Vázquez. -
Master’s degree in Advanced Technology.
CICATA-Legaria, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico.
Thesis (Spanish version): Augmented Reality Educational Mobile App. -
Diploma in Knowledge Discovery with Big Data Tools.
Centro de Investigación en Computación, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico.
192 hours. -
Bachelor’s degree in Physics and Mathematics.
Escuela Superior de Física y Matemáticas, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico.
Thesis (Spanish version): BWR Nuclear Reactor Refuel Cycle Simulation.
Observational Experience
- ESO 3.6m Telescope (2025, 8 nights).
- Swiss Euler 1.2m Telescope (2024–2025, 8 nights).