Education

Ph.D. Candidate Physical Oceanography.
Utrecht University (2020 - present).

M2 Environmental Fluid Mechanics.
Université Grenoble Alpes (2019 - 2020).

M1 Applied Mechanics.
Université Grenoble Alpes (2018 - 2019).

B.Sc. Physics.
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (2011 - 2017).

Experience

Institute for Marine and Atmospheric research Utrecht (IMAU).
   Utrecht. October 2020 - present.
   PhD Researcher.
   Project: Nanoplastics: investigating the formation, presence, and distribution in aquatic environments. Link 🔗
   Supervisor: Prof. Erik van Sebille.

Laboratoire d’Océanographie Physique et Spatiale (LOPS).
   Brest. February 2020 - September 2020.
   Master’s research internship.
   Project: Abyssal turbulence in the vicinity of Lucky Strike. Lucky Strike 🔗 LES plume 🔗
   Supervisors: Prof. Guillaume Roullet and Dr. Jonathan Gula.

Institut des Géosciences de l’Environnement (IGE).
   Grenoble. November 2018 - May 2019.
   Master’s research internship.
   Project: Measurement of Turbulence in Katabatic Winds on a Steep Slope.
   Supervisor: Dr. Jean-Emmanuel Sicart.

Center for Atmospheric Sciences, UNAM.
   Mexico City. July 2017 - August 2018.
   Undergraduate Research Assistant, Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction group.
   Project: Development of an operational forecast system for extreme events to predict meteorological conditions, waves and storm tides.
   Supervisor: Dr. Jorge Zavala Hidalgo.

Center for Atmospheric Sciences, UNAM.
   Mexico City. April 2017 - November 2017.
   Undergraduate Research Assistant, Laboratory of Geophysical Fluids.
   Project: Numerical simulations of convection in a stratified fluid. Link 🔗
   Supervisor: Dr. Angel Ruiz-Angulo.

CICESE.
   Tampico. November 2017.
   Field Assistant, Glider deployment in the Gulf of Mexico.
   Project: Oceanographic Monitoring Group with Gliders (GMOG).
   Supervisor: Dr. Angel Ruiz-Angulo.

Awards

Make Our Planet Great Again Laureate.
Master’s Excellence Grant for Climate Science and Research.
2018-2020.

Blue-Cloud Hackathon Winner Team.
EU 25,000 for developing the Sea-Clearly tool for tracking plastic pollution reaching aquaculture farms.
February 2022. seaclearly.io 🔗 Blue-Cloud 🔗

Conferences

Annual Reunion of the Mexican Geophysical Union.
“Study of the Planetary Boundary Layer over Mexico City during the inversion layers period.”
November 2017.

Nederlands Aardwetenschappelijk Congres (NAC) - NWO.
“Attribution of River-Sourced Floating Plastic in the South Atlantic Ocean Using Bayesian Inference.”
September 2022.

MICRO 2022 - Plastic Pollution from Macro to Nano.
“Backtracking nanoplastics found in the abyssal South Atlantic using Lagrangian simulations with fragmentation.”
November 2022.

Workshops

*Bad Honnef Physics School on Physics of the Ocean.
Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft – *Cancelled due to COVID-19.
July 2020.

Marine Master’s Summer School.
Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ) – Texel, Netherlands.
July 2019.

Summer School in Atmospheric Sciences.
UNAM – Juriquilla, Mexico.
June 2017.

JuliaCon 2016.
MIT – Cambridge, MA.
June 2016.

Teaching

Teaching Assistant of Numerical Methods for Physicists and Astronomers (NS-256B).
Faculty of Physics, Utrecht University.
2020-21, 2021-22, 2022-23.

Certifications

Nonlinear Dynamics: Mathematical and Computational Approaches.
Santa Fe Institute. Complexity Explorer (December 2016).
12.340x: Global Warming Science.
MITx. edX (May 2016).
ChM003x: Sensing Planet Earth – from Core to Outer Space.
Chalmers University of Technology. edX (March 2016).
Monitoring Climate from Space.
European Space Agency. FutureLearn (January 2016).
Causes of Climate Change.
University of Bergen. FutureLearn (October 2015).
IELTS.
British Council. Score: 7/9. November 2019.
Full Cave Diver.
Technical Diving International. March 2022.
Sidemount Diver.
Technical Diving International. March 2022.

Skills

Languages
   Spanish (native).
   French (fluent).
   English (fluent).
   Dutch (beginner).

Programming Languages
Python and Julia.