He holds a PhD in Economics from the School of Economics-UNAM, a Master's degree in Economics from UNAM, a Master of Arts in Economics from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, U.S.A., and a Bachelor's degree in Economics from FES-Acatlán. He is currently a tenured researcher "C" of T.C., attached to the Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas, level "D" of PRIDE and level II of SNI. His research interests are Poverty, Climate Change, Energy, Macroeconomics, Industrial Productivity and Econometrics. He is Coordinator of the Macroeconometric Prospective Analysis area of the IIEc. He received the National University Distinction for Young Academics and the National University Award in the teaching category in 2017. He obtained scholarships for research and updating internships from international universities, the Ford Foundation and Grupo Santander. He has published articles in national and international refereed and indexed journals such as Climatic Change, Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture and Journal of International Money and Finance. He has written book chapters in Springer, The Apple Academic Press, Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas and Fondo de Cultura Económica. He has published books in support of teaching. He has been responsible for national and international research projects. He has done research stages and courses at Cambridge University, University of California, Brown University, Levy Institute and the University of Pennsylvania. He has taught courses at FE, Graduate School of Economics, IIEc, FES-Acatlán, in the U.S.A., France, Ecuador and Costa Rica. He has supervised doctoral, master's, specialty and undergraduate theses.