Born in Mexico City, I originally hold a B.Sc. in Aeronautics and a M.Sc. in Metallurgy and Materials, completed with honors under Prof. Rodolfo Morales supervision in 2006 at the National Polytechnic, Institute, México. I also hold a Ph.D. in Materials Science from Imperial College London in the United, Kingdom, completed under Prof. Peter D. Lee and Prof. Ken C. Mills supervision from 2006 to 2010.

After completing my Ph.D., I joined SWERIM AB (formerly known as Swerea MEFOS AB), in the city of Luleå, in northern Sweden, where I work to date as Manager for the Raw Materials and Quality Group as well as leading the Casting Research Area at the Institute.

I also hold an Adjoint Professor position at KTH Royal institute of Technology and have been recently appointed as Expert for the Technical Group-TGA2: Casting & Rolling for the Executive Research Agency (REA) in the European Commission (EU).

My main areas of work are implementation of plant tests as well as experimental and numerical modelling for improvement of the Continuous Casting process through projects funded by Scandinavian steelmakers, the Swedish Innovation and Energy Agencies as well as the Research Fund for Coal and Steel.

My interests include flow dynamics, turbulence, heat transfer, solidification, design and implementation of equipment for plant trials and liquid-metal experiments as well as Multi-scale/multi- physics coupling of flow dynamics with stress and microstructure in Continuous Casting and other metallurgical processes such as quenching and light metals casting.