Aarón Barraza is a CONACYT-CIBNOR Research Fellow with a PhD from the Instituto de Biotecnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), 2013. Barraza has spent five years at CONACYT-CIBNOR as a research fellow (2015 to present) and is a guest professor at CINVESTAV, Unidad Irapuato (2013-2015). Barraza holds a postdoctoral position at Instituto de Biotecnología, UNAM (2013). Barraza focuses on microbial diversity and ecological interactions of microorganisms, computational biology, next-generation sequencing, bioinformatics, carbohydrate metabolism, plant cell differentiation and development, and molecular physiological response to abiotic and biotic stresses.