Researcher at the Inter-American Institute of Water Sciences and Technology (IITCA - UAEM). Civil Engineer, M.Sc. and Ph.D. (Hydrology) at Laval University, Quebec where he also completed a postdoctoral stage. He is a member of the Order of Engineers of Quebec and a member of the National Researchers System since 1994. (2001 - 2005) he was Coordinator of the Ibero-American Network for Drinking Water and Sanitation. He has been the Chairman of the LA-Wetnet Management Committee since 2005. Coordinator of Red Lerma-Mexico. Since 2010 he has been Network Manager of Mexican Network for Water Resources. Awarded with: the Nezahualcóyotl State prize 2005; the prize Ignacio Ramírez Calzada 2007, State Award for the Environment (2012) and “National Prize for Hydraulics-2016” (AMH, 2017). He has extensive experience in water management, and as a trainer of human capital. President of the Technical Society for Engineering in Water Sciences (SoTeICA-CICEM). He has more than 200 publications and he is co-author or co-editor of 11 books where the most recent is: The importance of floods in IWRM in Mexico (2012).