I received my bachelor's degree in electrical and electronics engineering and my master's degree in electrical engineering, specializing in control systems, from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico, in 2011 and 2013, respectively. Then, I obtained my Ph.D in "Automatique" from Paris-Saclay University, France, in 2017. From October to December 2015, I was a visiting Ph.D. student at the Institute of Cyber-Systems and Control at Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China. From January to February 2016, I was a visiting Ph.D. student at the Johann Bernoulli Institute at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. From 2017 to 2018, I was a postdoctoral researcher member of the Engineering and Technology Institute Groningen (ENTEG) at the University of Groningen. From 2018 to 2021, I was a fellow of the Faculty of Science and Engineering and an ENTEG member at the University of Groningen. From 2021 to 2022, I was a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Cognitive Robotics at the Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. Since October 2022, I have been a lecturer in Control Systems Engineering at the University of Plymouth, UK.

I am a member of the following societies:

• Senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 
• IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS)
• IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS)
• International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC)
• Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)
• Institute of Mathematics & its Applications (IMA)

Additionally, I am a member of the following technical committees:

• Non-linear Control Systems TC2.3 (IFAC)
• Robotics and Automation Technical Committee on Soft Robotics (IEEE)
•  Robotics and Automation Technical Committee on Robot Control (IEEE)

I am an associate editor for the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters journal

I was part of the supervisory team of the following Ph.D. projects:

• “Energy-based tracking control methods for classes of port-Hamiltonian systems” Najmeh Javanmardi. University of Groningen, NL, 2024.
• “Swarm and formation control of satellites using passivity” Ningbo Li. University of Groningen, NL, 2023.
• “Energy based control strategies for mechanical systems” Carmen Chan-Zheng. University of Groningen, NL, 2023.

I am part of the supervisory team of the following Ph.D. projects:

• “Autonomous Surface Sea Vessel Swarm Robotic Control Algorithm for Climate Forecasting” Guy Ludford. University of Plymouth, UK.
• “Developing a prototype to model spasticity and hypertonia as a tool to improve clinical teaching and research outcomes” Gabriela Gonzalez Chan. University of Plymouth, UK.
• “Design and Control of Variable-stiffness-actuators for Bipedal Locomotion” Oliver Smith. University of Plymouth, UK. (DoS)
• “Structural Performance Analysis of a Floating Green Energy Storage Subjected to Non-linear Loads” Muhammad Anas Maqbool. University of Plymouth, UK.

During the academic year 2025/2026, I will teach (in) the following courses:
CONT223 Engineering Mathematics and Control (Module lead)
ENGR103 Engineering Science
PRME310 Engineering Honours Project
MECH544 Data Processing, Simulation and Optimisation of Engineering Systems (Module lead)
MARN341 Marine Engineering

During the academic year 2024/2025, I taught (in) the following courses:
CONT223 Engineering Mathematics and Control (Module lead)
ENGR103 Engineering Science
PRME310 Engineering Honours Project
CONT318 Control and Intelligent Systems Design
MARN341 Marine Engineering

During the academic year 2023/2024, I taught the following courses:
CONT222 Engineering Mathematics and Control (Module lead)
MARN341 Marine Engineering

During the academic year 2022/2023, I taught the following courses:
CONT222 Engineering Mathematics and Control
MECH556 Autonomy Principles and Ethics

Previously, I was:
One of the lecturers of Mechatronics at the University of Groningen from 2018 to 2021.
The teaching assistant for Modeling and Control of Complex Nonlinear Engineering Systems at the University of Groningen from 2018 to 2021.