He received the B.Sc. degree in Electronic and Communications Engineering and M.Sc. degree from the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Monterrey, México in 1989 and 1991 respectively. In 1994 received the Ph.D. degrees from the same university with "Methodology to protection operation analysis for fault diagnosis in power systems" as his dissertation topic. He taught 20 undergraduate courses and 70 graduate courses. He has lectured more than 100 postgraduate and training courses in México, Venezuela, República Dominicana, Guatemala, El Salvador and Perú, mainly oriented to power utility engineers in protective relay theory and its operation. He has written or coauthored 125 technical papers and 90 conference papers in México, United States, Denmark, France, Cuba, Colombia, Venezuela, Brasil, Bolivia and Perú. Dr. Vázquez has been the Graduate Advisor for 33 graduate students in México and Perú. He has a patent about adaptive digital protection and is author of three books.