with membership in the Mexican Academy of Sciences (since 2004), and Level III membership in Mexico’s Sistema Nacional de Investigadores . He won the awards at Tec de Monterrey for his teaching as well as the Rómulo Garza Prize for his research work. He was also the first Mexican to be named senior member of the International Society of Optics and Photonics, serving in this organization as conference chair, editor, student chapter advisor and more. In 2020 he won the Esther Hoffman Beller Medal from The Optical Society "for exceptional commitment to optics education through extraordinary academic mentoring and teaching; the development of original, engaging teaching materials and the establishment of a world-class optics graduate program." See also List of Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education faculty List of Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education alumni References External links Official homepage Living people 21st-century Mexican physicists Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education faculty Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education alumni Members of the Mexican Academy of Sciences People from Zamora, Michoacán People from Monterrey Year of birth missing (living people)