BORN: December 4,1963, Mexico City, Mexico

CITIZENSHIP: Mexican.

EDUCATION

1990 BE (Geophysics Engineer), Faculty of Engineering, UNAM, Mexico.
     BE thesis on "Predicction of strong ground motions in Mexico city,
     using the records of small earthquakes as empirical Green's functions".

1995 MSc (Geophysics), Faculty of the Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Japan.
     MSc thesis on "Time domain analysis of non-linear site effects during strong ground
     motions using empirical Green's function method".


1995 Doctor in Science (Geophysics), Faculty of the Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Japan.
     Doctor Thesis on "Strong ground motion studies on the 1995 Hyogo-ken
     Nanbu Earthquake: Nonlinearity in soft soil layers and inversion of the
     high frequency radiation in the source".

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1991-1992 Researcher at National Center of Disaster prevention in Mexico City
          (Centro Nacional de Prevencion de Desastres, CENAPRED)).

1991-1 and 1991-2, Temporary profesor of "Algebra" at the Faculty of Engineering, UNAM
                   (Facultad de Ingenieria, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, UNAM).

RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTEREREST

 Strong ground motions seismology, nonlinear response of soils, borehole data analysis,
inversion, inversion using genetic algorithms source process and aplications of empirical
 Green's function method.

COMPUTER SKILLS

Fortran, Unix, GMT. Experience with programing and developing of programs for seismology.
Inversion with genetic algoritms for non-parallel (genesis) and parallel (GALOPPS
and PGA) versions.