Titular Professor at the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos, Mexico (2004 to present); Postdoctoral position as full time Assistant Professor at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (2002-2003); Doctoral Dissertation in Chemistry of Natural Products. Universität Bonn, Germany (1998-2001). Master of Science in Pharmacy. Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil (1996-1997). Pharmacy School. UFRGS, Brazil (1988-1994). Dr. Taketa has extensive training in phytochemistry and plant biotechnology. His work group has published the first article on plant metabolomics in Latin America in Planta Medica (2008). He has organized the 1st International Symposium on Metabolomics in Mexico (2015). He has initiated pioneering research in Mexico with ferns in the areas of phytochemistry, pharmacology, metabolomics and in vitro culture. He participated in the creation and is coordinator of the first postgraduate program on medicinal plants in Mexico, the Master's Degree in Research and Development of Medicinal Plants. He is a member of the Morelos Academy of Sciences. He is associate editor of the Brazilian Journal of Phamacognosy (Springer). He is the technical-scientific manager of the NODESS Network - Morelos Solidarity and Cooperative. In 2019 he received the “Martín de la Cruz Merit Award”, by the Ministry of Health of Mexico, a national distinction for the most outstanding in chemical and biological research on medicinal plant research.