PhD in Human Genetics (University of Guadalajara). Full Professor and Researcher, Director of the Institute of Molecular Genetics Research at the University Center of La Ciénega (University of Guadalajara). His research areas are Molecular Anthropology and Forensic Genetics. He has received funding from five CONACyT calls for proposals (2000, 2005, 2009, 2016, and 2019), as well as from the Jalisco State Council of Science and Technology (COECYT-JAL-2008), the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID-2009, Spain), and private funding. He has published approximately 200 articles with nearly 5,650 citations (https://scholar.google.com.mx/citations?user=eNTtw2AAAAAJ&hl=es&oi=ao). He has been a speaker or guest lecturer at over one hundred national and international academic events. He has supervised 30 graduate theses and 33 undergraduate theses, both at the University of Guadalajara (UdeG) and at other universities in Mexico.
He was a CONACYT and IMSS scholarship recipient (1995-2000), received an honorable mention for his master’s thesis (1998), the Academic Merit Award in Science and Research from the University of Guadalajara Staff Union (STAUdeG) (2002), and his work has won the “HECTOR MARQUEZ MONTER” award from the Mexican Association of Forensic Architects (AMGH) five times, plus an honorable mention (2012) for the same award. He was an advisor for the 2006 Chihuahua Prize in Biological Sciences and has won two awards from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH). He is a Level III member of the National System of Researchers (SNI). He is the Mexican delegate to the Latin American Society of Forensic Genetics (SLAGF) and was secretary of the Hispanic Portuguese Group of the International Society of Forensic Genetics (GHEP-ISFG).
