Professor and researcher at CINVESTAV IPN; Department of Plants Biotechnology and Biochemistry at CINVESTAV Unidad Irapuato, http://www.ira.cinvestav.mx/. First Degree in Chemistry, 1975, from the Faculty of Chemical Sciences (UNAM); speciality degree from the Department of Biochemistry, Neurosciences, 1972–1973, CINVESTAV IPN, Mexico. PhD received from the Department of Biochemistry and Soil Science, University College North Wales, Bangor, UK, 1981. Worked at CINVESTAV from 1981 to 2021, where research interests included secondary metabolism and lipids in plants endemic to Mexico and Mesoamerica; botanical chemotaxonomy; PKSs in plants; and volatile organic compounds in plants ecology. Worked at the Neuroscience Laboratory, CINVESTAV IPN, Mexico, 1972–1973, and at the Laboratory of Phytochemistry, researching the biosynthesis and regulation of secondary metabolites and plant tissue culture and secondary metabolisms. Research work was carried out at the Laboratory of Plant Biochemistry, 1976–1980, Department of Biochemistry and Soil Science, University College of North Wales, UK, and at the Laboratory Fitobioquímica, Department of Biotechnology and Biochemistry. CINVESTAV Unidad Irapuato. Member of the Awards National Researchers System in Mexico; the Martin de la Cruz Mexican Academy of Traditional Medicine, 1998; and the editorial board of the journal Phytochemical Analysis, 1990–2000.