Education

2009, PhD in Physics- National Autonomous University of Mexico 

2006, Master in Physics- National Autonomous University of Mexico 

2003, Bachelor in Physics- National University of Colombia

Work Experience

2026 - Present: Associate Professor - Fuyao University of Science and Technology

2022 - 2026: Assistant Professor- University of Valencia 

2016 - 2022: Research Scientist- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 

2013 - 2016: Postdoctoral Research Associate- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign CPAN 

2011 - 2013: Postdoctoral Researcher- University of the Balearic Islands 

2009 - 2011: Postdoctoral Research Associate- Theoretisch-Physikalisches Institut of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena

Research Interests

Circumbinary, self-gravitating accretion disks; Stellar compact binary mergers; Multimessenger signals; Numerical Relativity and general relativistic hydrodynamics; Alternative gravity

Bibliometric Data

Google Scholar citations: h-index 28. Total citations 4033.

Grants

2025 - 2028: Computational relativistic astrophysics and data analysis in the era of gravitational-wave astronomy- Spanish Research Agency (PID2024-159689NB-C21), PI. 

2022 - 2026: Studies In Theoretical Astrophysics and General Relativity- Generalitat Valenciana (CIDEGENT/2021/046), PI. 

2015: Black Hole Formation on Cosmological Space-times- Administrative Department of Science, Technology and Innovation, Colombian Research Agency, PI.

Professional Services

Referee for Astrophys. J. Lett., Phys. Rev. Lett., Phys. Rev. D, Mon. Not. Royal Astron. Soc, Class. Quant. Grav.

Reviewer for the NASA Hubble Fellowship Program, 2026.

Hubble grants observation reviewer, 2021.

Coordinator and regular reviewer of Marenostrum computational resources. Division: Astronomy and Astrophysics.

 Awards and Honours

CIDEGENT fellowship, Conselleria de Innovación, Universidades, Ciencia y Sociedad, Spain.

Research Fellowship, Colombian Research Agency, Colombia.

Postdoctoral Fellowship, National Center for Particle, Astroparticle, and Nuclear Physics, Spain.

DFG grant SFB/Transregio 7 “Gravitational Wave Astronomy”, Germnany.

National Autonomous University of Mexico Fellowship, Mexico.

National university of Colombia Fellowship, Colombia.