Civil Engineer (UNAM, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 1977), Master of Engineering, (Applied and theroretical mechanics, UNAM, 1980), MSc, DIC (1982, Soil Mechanics and Engineering Seismology, Imperial College, London), PhD (1986, Soil Mechanics, Imperial College, London).

Research Engineer at the Instituto de Ingeniería, UNAM, from 1986; lecturer at the School of Engineering (undergraduate and post graduate courses), from 1989. Head, Geotechnical Engineering Dept, Instituto de Ingeniería, UNNAM, 2016-2021.

Author of several dozens of publications – research papers, technical reports, books and book chapters. Has performed research on the behaviour of loose granular materials and has looked experimentally at the static and dynamic behaviour of the soft lacustrine Mexico City clays. Has also participated in numerous foundation engineering problems including the project for the geometrical correction of Mexico City’s Metropolitan Cathedral and the project for a new airport for Mexico City at a site with extremely soft and very compressible soils. He is a geotechnical consultant for Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History and a core member of TC301, the Technical Committee on the Preservation of Historical Sites and Monuments, ISSMGE.