About me

I am a first year PhD student in the Physics and Astronomy Department of Northwestern University, working with Prof. Jason Wang on various topics related to exoplanet imaging. I am currently interested in expanding our knowledge of directly-imaged exoplanets with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), both developing new image processing methods to discover previously undetectable planets, and using current methods and observations to characterize the new planets that JWST is sensitive to.

I completed by undergraduate studies in Engineering Physics at the School of Engineering of the Autonomous University of Yucatán, in Yucatán, México. Even though my undergraduate institution did not have any astronomy faculty or offer any astronomy courses, I carried out original research in astrophysics with institutions in the United States and Europe. Some of my past research includes analyzing statistical biases in orbit-fitting of directly imaged exoplanets and characterizing properties of bar galaxies in hydrodynamical simulations with Francesca Fragkoudi (Durham University) and Eric Emsellem at the European Southern Observatory.

Prior to starting graduate school, I worked as a Cloud Engineer at Accenture, where I led a small team of people in tasks of software engineering, cloud computing (with Google Cloud Platform), database management, and both front-end and back-end web development.

I was born and raised in Yucatán, México, where I lived most of my life. In my spare time I enjoy reading, live music and plant-based food.