I'm a researcher at the Engineering Institute (Instituto de Ingenieria) of UNAM in Mexico City in seismology and in laser-ultrasonic, trying to work as much on the theoretical as the practical aspects. My topics of interest are the modeling of the generation and propagation of mechanical waves through semi-analytical or finite element methods, the recovery of Green functions from ambient noise, and its application to the characterization of the subsoil at several scales (city, geothermal fields, volcanic, earth crust or even crust-mantle boundary) and the non-destructive characterization of materials. More recently, I focus on a newborn seismological method called Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) that uses fiber optic cables as transmisser of information and as sensors, mainly to better assess the seismic hazard in urban areas. I have been teaching classes related to physics and seismic hazards for undergraduate and master levels at the ENES of Morelia and now I teach seismology and elastodynamics for master's students in the Earth Sciences school at UNAM.

Education and Employments
  • Principal Researcher, 2019, Instituto de Ingeniería, UNAM CDMX, Mexico
  • Catedra Conacyt, 2015-2019, Instituto de Geofisica Unidad Morelia, UNAM, Mexico
  • Associate researcher, 2013-2015, Instituto de Ingeniería, CDMX UNAM, Mexico
  • Associate researcher, 2009-2012, IMI-CNRC, Boucherville, Canada
  • Associate researcher, 2007-2008, Instituto de Ingeniería, CDMX UNAM, Mexico
  • Ph.D in Mechanics, 2003-2006, Bordeaux1 University, France
Research Interests
  • Anelastic and Schock Wave Simulation
  • Distributed Acoustic Sensing (fiber optic) seismology
  • Volcanology: magma plumbing system imaging, volcanic activity monitoring
  • Earth Structure: Shallow (few meters) to deep (core mantle boundary) imaging, anisotropy
  • Non destructive characterization/evaluation of material
Methods
  • Ambient seismic field correlations, Correlation of Coda of Correlations (C3), auto-correlations
  • H/V spectral ratio following a diffuse field approach (directional energy densities)
  • Distributed Acoustinc Sensing
  • Laser Ultrasonics
  • DWN, IBEM, IBEM-DWN, SEM, FEM,