Ad hoc activities

Hobbies

Water sports - swimming, freediving, spearfishing, scuba diving, and underwater rugby.
On land - Bushwalking, hiking & mountaineering, and mountain biking.
Reading books and comics of different genres (sci-fi, history, travel diaries, economics).
Foodie and travel enthusiast with recommendations on Tripadvisor and Vivino

Volunteering and charities

Teaching freediver rescue to Guanajuato's firefighters (2016-2017).
Assuring underwater rescue during freediving competition - Brisbane, Australia (2015) & Olmeca, Veracruz (2016).
Presiding Movember annual charity event at IMB, UQ (2008-2015).

Consulting and mentoring services

Health Data Science Program, Monterrey, Mexico (2017-2023).
Integratek, Queretaro, Mexico (2017).

External PhD thesis examiner

2021 David L. Meléndez Martínez (Dr. Cuauhtémoc Licona Cassani), Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico
2021 Benjamin Tombling (Prof. David Craik), The University of Queensland, Australia
2018 María del Refugio Cuevas Flores (Dr. Marco Revilla), The University of Guanajuato, Mexico

Winning grants

Applied to 16M in Mexican pesos (MXN) in grants and prizes, with a success rate of 35%.
2023-2027 CONAHCYT ANUIES-ECOS NORD Bilateral mobility grant Mexico-France. Project 322558 - Lead CI.
(MXN $510,000)
2021 Roche & Mexican Health Foundation Medical Research Prize, Biotechnology category – Lead CI.
(MXN $300,000)
2021 CONAHCYT Research Infrastructures in Frontier Science – Participant, Lead CI: Dr. Agustino Martínez.
(MXN $750,000)
2020-2021 CONAHCYT Scientific Research Projects, Technological Development and Innovation in Health
before the Contingency by COVID-19 – Participant, Lead CI: Dr. Angélica Cibrián.
(MXN $1,976,000)
2019-2023 CONAHCYT FOSEC SEP - Basic Science. Project A1-S-32579 – Lead CI.
(MXN $1,495,000)
2018-2021 CGSTIC-CINVESTAV Call for Resources in the Hybrid Supercomputing Cluster Xiuhcoatl – Lead CI.
(MXN $400,000)

Peer-reviewing

Springer Nature (Nature Chemistry, Molecular Diversity), RSC (Chemical Science, RSC Advances, New Journal of Chemistry), ACS (ACS Chemical Neuroscience), Oxford (Bioinformatics, Briefings in Bioinformatics), BMC (Journal of Chemoinformatics).

Institutional services

2018-2022 Member of the College of Professors, CINVESTAV Advanced Genomics Unit, Scribe/Chair (2019).
2022-2024 Member of the College of Professors, CINVESTAV Irapuato Unit.
2019 Member of the Committee of Evaluation of the Institutional Administration.