Mario Moreno was born in Puebla, Mexico, in 1978. He received the B.S. degree in electronics from Electronics School, Meritorious Autonomous University, Puebla, in 2000, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in microelectronics from the National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics (INAOE), Puebla, in 2003 and 2008, respectively. In 2008 and 2009 he was a postdoctoral researcher at Laboratoire de Physique des Interfaces et des Couches Minces, Ecole Polytechnique, CNRS, Palaiseau, France. He joined the Electronics Group, INAOE, in 2010, as a Researcher and currently is chief of the microelectronics laboratory of INAOE.