Academic Experience
PhD Bioscience – 2025
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Advisor: Prof. Pierre Magistretti
PhD Neuroscience – 2025
University of Turin
Advisor: Prof. Corrado Cali
M.Sc. Bioscience – 2020
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Advisor: Prof. Pierre Magistretti
B.Sc. Nanotechnology and Molecular Engineering – 2018
Universidad de las Américas Puebla
Advisor: Prof. Miguel Ángel Méndez Rojas
B.Sc.Chemistry – 2018
Universidad de las Américas Puebla
Advisor: Prof. Miguel Ángel Méndez Rojas
Member of the Training Advisory Committee – October 2024
Society for Neuroscience
FELASA Accreditation on Care and Use of Laboratory Animals – April – June 2024
Federation of European Laboratory Animal Science Associations & Department of Biology, University of Crete
Accredited on functions A, B, C, D and modules 20, 21, 22, 23 in mice, rats, and zebrafish
FELASA Workshop on Severity Classification and Reporting under EU Directive 2010/63/EU – May 2024
Federation of European Laboratory Animal Science Associations & Hellenic Society of Biomedical and Laboratory Animals Science
Bioenergetics for Brain Function – 2022
Cajal Advanced Neuroscience Training at Bordeaux School of Neuroscience
Bio-metholodogy of the Laboratory Mice – 2019 and 2022
Charles River
Travel Grants
Dean’s Travel Award – June 2023
King Abdullah of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia
American Chemical Society National Meeting – August 2018
Boston, USA
Atlantic Basin Conference on Chemistry – January 2018
Cancun, Mexico
National Conference of Chemistry and Chemical Education – September 2017
Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
American Chemical Society National Meeting – August 2017
Washington DC, USA
Latin American Meeting on Biological Inorganic Chemistry – October 2018
Queretaro, Mexico
Awards
Outstanding Student Chapter
Recognition by the American Chemical Society as one of the best international student chapters for three consecutive academic years (2015 – 2018).
Oral Presentations
The role of astrocytic glycogen dynamics in learning and long-term memory – October 2025
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (Lausanne, Switzerland)
Nano-neuroscience: Use of nanotechnology in a model of Parkinson’s Disease – July 2020
Universidad Popular Autónoma del Estado de Puebla (Online)
Biocompatible magnetic nanoparticles as intranasal drug delivery carriers for the brain – January 2018
Atlantic Basin Conference on Chemistry (Cancun, Mexico)
Poster Presentations
Glycogen dynamics during memory consolidation: Integrated biochemical and 3D ultrastructural analyses – November & December 2025
Neuroscience 2025, Society for Neuroscience (San Diego, USA)
Nature Conference on Brain Energy Metabolism (Thuwal, KSA)
Electron microscopy of brain tissue fixed by focused beam microwave to preserve glycogen – May 2025
Volume Electron Microscopy Gordon Research Seminar and Conference (Barcelona, Spain)
Optimization of anesthesia and microwave fixation conditions for biochemical and morphological studies of glycogen metabolism after behavioral tests – October 2024
Neuroscience 2024, Society for Neuroscience (Chicago, USA)
Spatial distribution of glycogen in layer 1 of the somatosensory cortex in aging mice – June 2024
Connectomics Conference – Max Planck Institute from Brain Research (Berlin, Germany)
Spatial distribution of glycogen in layer 1 of the somatosensory cortex in aging mice – September 2023
IBRO World Congress of Neuroscience (Granada, Spain)
The Effects of Anesthetics on Glycogen Concentration in Microwaved-Fixed Brain Samples – September 2022
5th Brainstorming Research Assembly for Young Neuroscientists (Rome, Italy)
Spatial distribution of glycogen in layer 1 of the somatosensory cortex in aging mice – June 2022
FENS Forum (Paris, France)
Glycogen quantification in microwave-fixed brain samples – October 2021
4th Brainstorming Research Assembly for Young Neuroscientists (Pisa, Italy)
Use of computational tools to evaluate the glycogen distribution in the somatosensory cortex of aged mice – November 2020
3rd Brainstorming Research Assembly for Young Neuroscientists (Online)
Nanoparticles for Brain Drug Delivery: Design, Synthesis, Characterization and Biological Evaluation – August 2018
American Chemical Society National Meeting
Biocompatible magnetic nanoparticles as intranasal drug delivery carriers for the brain. – September 2017
National Congress of Chemistry and Chemical Education (Biotechnology Section)
Student Chapter of the American Chemical Society in Mexico. – September 2017
National Congress of Chemistry and Chemical Education (Chemical Education Section) – Jalisco, Mexico