PhD in Archaeology from the University of Durham, England (2011), a Master's degree in Anthropology from UNAM (2003), and a Bachelor's degree at Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia (2001). He is a full-time research fellow at the Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas (IIA). He holds the PRIDE D incentive, a program which recognizes full-time and outstanding academic staff. He is also part of the Sistema Nacional de Investigadores, level I. His research interests include the history of archaeology, the history of archaeological tourism, climate change, and rock art; mainly specialized in the study of Sonoran Desert (Sonora and Baja California Sur). Among his publications as a single author, the following ones stand out: The Caborca ​​Rock Art Style and the Archaeology of La Proveedora, Sonora (2024); Cuando las cosas se toman en serio: el poder comcaac de una vasija (2020); Cambio Climático y Arqueología en el Desierto de Sonora (2020); Light Shows and Narratives of the Past (2013), Archaeology in Circulation: Nationalism and Tourism in Coins, Banknotes, Stamps, and Tourist Guides in the Post-revolutionary Mexico (2011); he also co-authored Rock varnish in La Proveedora/Sonora in the context of desert geobiological processes and landscape evolution (2021); and The soundscapes of Baja California Sur: preliminary results from the Santa Teresa Canyon rock art landscape (2021). He has actively participated in national and international research teams, such as in the UNAM’s Instituto de Geología, the University of Barcelona or the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (Sonora/Baja California Sur), where he led and co-led several research teams. From 2016 to the date, he has been responsible of directing founded UNAM’s projects (DGAPA-PAPIIT), that includes the current one which is entitled: Adaptación de sociedades a climas extremos: cambio climático, arqueología y arte rupestre en el Desierto de Sonora (2024-2026). He was a founding member of a project with the aim of creating a bachelor's degree in anthropology at UNAM, originally conceived within the IIA (2013-2015). He was the first chair of the Centro de Estudios Antropológicos at the FCPyS-UNAM (2015-2021), where for the first time at this University, a bachelor's degree in anthropology was instructed, encompassing the core areas of archaeology, social anthropology, physical anthropology, and anthropological linguistics. He is a professor in that undergraduate program, also in the Postgraduate Program in Mesoamerican Studies, and in the Posgraduate Program in Anthropology, both at UNAM. He has also delivered lecture at the Autonomous University of Campeche and the University of Sonora. At these two universities, he joined up in for the implementation of the undergraduate programs in anthropology. He has supervised theses for undergraduate, master's, and doctoral dissertations. His participation in collegiate bodies is diverse; he is an active representative member of the Honorable Consejo Universitario, the Consejo Interno, and the Comité Editorial, the latter two at the IIA. He was editor of the journal Anales de Antropología (2020-2024). He received the Alfonso Caso Medal an important UNAM’s recognition, as the best student of his class. And is currently Head of the Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas at UNAM (2024-2028).