David Cruz Cruz was born in Puebla, Mexico, where he studied Chemistry. In 2010, he received his Ph.D in Chemical Sciences at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), working in the field of asymmetric synthesis via chiral sulfoxides, under the guidance of Prof. Francisco Yuste López. From 2006 to 2007, he was a visiting Ph.D student at the Department of Organic Chemistry at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Spain, in the group of Prof. José Luis García Ruano. From 2011 to 2014, he joined the group of Prof. Karl Anker Jørgensen as a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Catalysis, Aarhus University, Denmark. Since 2015, he has worked at the Department of Chemistry, Universidad de Guanajuato, Mexico, as an Associate Professor. His main research interest is the structural diversification of bioactive molecules through different methodologies in organocatalysis.