Curriculum Vitae
Research positions
2025 – present · Postdoctoral Research Associate, Homer L. Dodge Department of Physics & Astronomy, The University of Oklahoma, USA. Supervisor: Dr. Michael Hayden.
2021 – 2025 · Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow, Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics (ASIAA), Taiwan. Supervisor: Dr. Lihwai Lin.
2016 – 2017 · Research Assistant (CONACYT), IA-UNAM, Mexico, with Dr. Irene Cruz-González.
Education
2017 – 2021 · PhD in Astrophysics, Instituto de Astronomía, UNAM, Mexico. Thesis: A systematic study of galactic jets in the local Universe. Advisor: Dr. Sebastián F. Sánchez.
2014 – 2016 · MSc in Astrophysics, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Thesis: Star-formation-driven galactic winds in UGC 10043. Advisor: Dr. Sebastián F. Sánchez.
2008 – 2013 · BSc in Physics, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico.
Teaching
| Course | Role | Term | Institution |
|---|---|---|---|
| Life in the Universe | Instructor of record (90+ students) | 2026 | University of Oklahoma |
| Extragalactic Astronomy | Teaching assistant | 2018, 2019, 2020 | UNAM |
Supervision & mentoring
- Co-supervision of a PhD student at the University of Oklahoma.
- Co-supervisor of an MSc thesis at IA-UNAM (with Dr. Jorge Barrera-Ballesteros): Characterisation of the XS code in simulated barred galaxies.
- Mentor of three students in the ASIAA Summer Student Program, working on barred-galaxy kinematics and star formation with MaNGA.
Awards & fellowships
- ASIAA Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship (2021 – 2025).
- Paris Pişmiş Prize 2016, best graduate student at IA-UNAM.
- CONACYT (now SECIHTI) national fellowships for PhD and MSc studies.
- Mexican Physical Society fellowship, 2019.
Observing experience
- PI, five nights at the Observatorio Astronómico Nacional San Pedro Mártir (2018): Fabry–Perot observations of galactic-scale outflows.
- PI, CFHT/SITELLE proposal (2021B): gas inflows driven by spiral arms and bars.
Service
- Referee for The Astrophysical Journal.
- PhD evaluation committee member, IA-UNAM (2021).
- Local Organizing Committee, The interplay between local and global processes in galaxies, Cozumel, Mexico (2016).
Selected talks
- Revisiting kinematic modeling of gaseous disks in the era of 3D spectroscopy, University of Oklahoma (2025).
- 3D kinematic modeling of gaseous disks, ASIAA, Taiwan (2024).
- Exploring the imprints of non-axisymmetric motions in disk galaxies, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (2024).
- Bar-like flows in galaxies, National Central University, Taiwan (2023).
- Effects of non-circular motions in galaxies, IA-UNAM, Mexico (2023).
Computing
Python (scientific software, Bayesian inference, MCMC and nested sampling), Linux, and cluster computing on large datasets: GECKOS/VLT (~2 TB), PHANGS-MUSE (~500 GB), ~10,000 MaNGA galaxies, and ~200 galaxies from ALMaQUEST, EDGE-CALIFA and PHANGS-ALMA (~1 TB).