Experience

  1. Postdoc Position

    Max Plank Institute for Polymer Research
    • Project “SAPs4Tissue: Self-assembling bioactive peptides for the biomimetic design of functional cell niches in human tissue models”
    • Research on self-assembling peptides as intrinsically disordered proteins, investigating their structural dynamics through coarse-grained simulations and functional properties
    • Implementation of machine learning algorithms for optimizing peptide sequences
    • Developed and maintained an internal peptide database, organizing molecular data to facilitate structure-function relationship studies

  2. Ph.D. thesis

    Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
    • Research Training Group 2450: “Tailored Scale-Bridging Approaches to Computational Nanoscience”
    • Implementation of neural network architectures to fit long-range and short-range energy interactions in protein disulfide exchange reactions for QM/MM simulations
    • Comparative analysis of energy potentials between ab initio and semi-empirical methods
    • Incorporation of data analysis, machine learning, and computational chemistry software workflows into an interactive Graphical User Interface, enhancing accessibility and usability of computational tools for non-expert users

  3. M.Sc. thesis

    Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí
    • Performed full-atomistic MD simulations and molecular docking to identify and characterize ion and nucleotide binding sites in the N-domain of membrane H⁺-ATPase from Saccharomyces cerevisiae
    • Conducted functional and structural analysis using circular dichroism, absorbance and fluorescence spectroscopy

  4. Internship

    Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí
    • Optical arrangement assembly for microcavities characterization at cryogenic temperatures
    • Reflectance, photoreflectance and photoluminescence measurement at different microcavities on real and reciprocal space

  5. Internship

    Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí
    • Characterization of glass surfaces by silanization and ionic coating
    • Measurement of dynamic contact angles between liquid interfaces over the characterized surfaces

  6. B.Sc. thesis

    Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí
    • Expression and purification of the recombinant N-domain of the H⁺-ATPase of S. cerevisiae
    • Steady-state fluorescence experiments for determining the position of nucleotide binding sites

Education

  1. PhD Natural Sciences

    Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
    Thesis title ‘Machine Learning methodology for the study of a disulfide exchange reaction’
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  2. MSc Interdisciplinary Sciences

    Universidad Autonoma de San Luis Potosi, Mexico
    Thesis title ‘Caracterización termodinámica del dominio-N de la H+-ATPasa de membrana plasmática de Saccharomyces cerevisiae’
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  3. BSc Biophysics

    Universidad Autonoma de San Luis Potosi, Mexico
    Thesis title ‘Caracterización estructural y funcional del dominio-N de la H+-ATPasa de membrana plasmática de Saccharomyces cerevisiae’

  4. Diploma in Automation and Industrial Electrical Control

    Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico
Skills & Hobbies
Skills
Machine learning
Computational chemistry
Protein purificatiom
Optical setups
Hobbies
World building, writing
Painting
Awards
Best Poster Presentation - Science Communication Category
Optical Communications Research Institute XVIII Week ∙ May 2018
Awarded first place for the poster presentation “How to measure the (effective) mass of light?” in the Science Communication category.
Second Best Poster Presentation
Leiden International (Bio)Medical Students Conference ∙ March 2017
Awarded second place for the poster presentation “Structural and functional characterization of the H+-ATPase of Saccharomyces cerevisiae” at this international conference.
Second Place at the 21st Metropolitan Physics Olympiad
Mexican Society of Physics (Sociedad Mexicana de Física) ∙ November 2011
Awarded second place at the 21st Metropolitan Physics Olympiad in Mexico City.
Third Place at the 1st Metropolitan Competition of Physics Apparatus and Experiments
Mexican Society of Physics (Sociedad Mexicana de Física) ∙ September 2010
Awarded third place in the Didactic Apparatus category at the 1st Metropolitan Competition of Physics Apparatus and Experiments.
Languages
85%
English
100%
Spanish
50%
French
50%
Portuguese
25%
German
25%