Ad hoc activities

Consulting and mentoring services

Faculty of Science and Engineering - Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia (2025-present).
PTNG Scientific, Melbourne, Australia (2024-present).
Health Data Science Program, Monterrey, Mexico (2017-2023).
Integratek, Queretaro, Mexico (2017).

Grant funding & prizes

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)

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.

Thesis committees

2018-2019 Gilberto Perez Morales (Master student, Dr. Luis Delaye)
2018-2019 Josué Esaú Macías López (Master student, Dr. José Ordaz)
2019-2022 Atzimba Yunuén Castro Lara (Master student, Dr. Luis Brieba)
2019-2021 Gilberto Luna Fonseca (Master student, Dr. John Delano)
2019-2021 Hairo Isaac Ríos Carlos (Master student, Dr. Sean Rovito)
2019-2020 Sara Analí Ruiz Segoviano (Master student, Dr. John Delano)
2020-2022 Itzel Anaya Benítez (Master student, Dr. Mercedes López)
2020-2022 Karen Elizabeth Vaca Ruiz (Master student, Dr. Alejandro de Luna & Dr. Eugenio Mancera)
2020-2022 Luis Fernando Pérez Vega (Master student, Dr. José Ordaz)
2020-2022 Carlos Manuel Morales Vázquez (PhD student, Dr. Luis Brieba)
2020-2022 Fabián Contreras Loera (PhD student, Dr. Agustino Martínez)
2020-2024 Nancy Shirley Garcia Rojas (PhD student, Dr. Robert Winkler)
2021-2022 Alejandro de Jesús Peñafiel (Master student, Dr. Luis Brieba)
2021-2022 Isaac Martínez Ugalde (PhD student, Dr. Cei Abreu)
2021-2024 Jazmín Padilla Escamilla (PhD student, Dr. John Delano & Dr. Luis González de la Vara)
2022-2024 Hector Sauceda Martinez (PhD student, Dr. Robert Winkler)
2022-2024 Javier Castillo Castillo (Master student, Dr. Miguel Gomez-Lim & Dra. Mercedes López López)
2022-2024 Zulia Fernandina Nieves López (PhD student, Dra. Laila Partida Martínez)

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

External Grant Examiner

2017-2024 Mexican Research Council CONAHCYT (now Secretaría de Ciencias, Humanidades, Tecnología e Innovación https://secihti.mx/)
2021 UK RosetreeTrust
2021 Canada Research Coordinating Committee (CRCC) & New Frontiers in Research Fund (NFRF)

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).

Volunteering and charities

Participating in the annual Laps for Life charity event (2024-present).
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).

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