He was born in Veracruz, Mexico in 1960 and obtained his B.S degree in Electronics form the Tecnológico Nacional de México – campus I.T. Minatitlan in 1982, and Ph.D. in Industrial Electronics from the Unversidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain (1991). He worked at the National Institute of Electricity and Clean Energies - INEEL in the Power Electronics Group from 1982 to 1987, and from 1991 to 1994. He has been member of the Mexican System of Researches for more than 28 years and he received the Third Millennium Medal from the IEEE in 2000. He was founding  president of the chapter of Power Electronics of the Morelos Section of the IEEE (1994) and the Mexican Society of Power Electronics – SOMEP in the year 2000. Since January 2018, he has been Associate Editor of the IEEE Latin American Transactions magazine and since more than 25 years he has served as reviewer for many worldwide recognized journals.