I'm a Mexican engineer/astronomer currently working as a lecturer in Astronomy at the University of St. Andrews. I mainly work with on multi-wavelength observations of accreting compact objects and active galactic nuclei (AGN), focusing on X-rays, ultraviolet, optical and infrared.

Back in my home town of Mexico City, I obtained an undergraduate degree in mechanical engineer at UNAM, with particular focus in astronomical instrumentation. Afterwards, I pursued a MSc in Astronomy at the Institute of Astronomy at UNAM. I later emigrated to the United Kingdom, where I received my PhD as a CONACyT fellow at the University of Southampton, under the supervision of Prof. Christian Knigge.

In not a long distant past, I worked as a freelance engineer as well as a maths and physics teacher at high school level.

 Experience

 2021-present | University of St Andrews
I currently work as a lecturer at the University of St. Andrews.

 2019-2021 | University of St Andrews
I worked as a research fellow at the University of St. Andrews, collaborating with Keith Horne on multi-wavelength observations of accreting compact objects and active galactic nuclei (AGN), focusing on X-rays, ultraviolet, optical and infrared.

 2016-2019 | Anton Pannekoek Institute, University of Amsterdam
After completing my PhD, I moved to the Netherlands as a postdoctoral researcher in Nathalie Degenaar's group on Compact Objects in a Low-level Accretion regime (COLA for short!).

 Education

 2012-2016 | PhD - University of Southampton
 2009-2011 | MSc - Institute of Astronomy, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
 2003-2008 | BEng - Engineering Faculty, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

 Awards

In 2016, I was awarded the Carlos Fuentes Award for the most distinguished Mexican student in the United Kingdom for my work during my PhD and the start-up of a new instrument OptiCAM for the Mexican National Observatory.

Award Ceremony at the Mexican Embassy in London, UK. June 2016. Credit: SRE.