Specialist in silvopastoral systems and environmental services. Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. Degree earned in 2005, with a dissertation titled: "Soil fertility and nutrient cycling in pure and mixed fodder bank systems using leguminous and non-leguminous shrubs”. MCs. from the University of Aberdeen. Degree earned in 1996, with the thesis: "The management of fodder trees in the tropics and the nutrition benefits to animal production". Bachelor´s degree from the Instituto Tecnológico Agropecuario, Morelia, Mich., México, 1991. Member of the National System of Researchers, level 2. Author of several peer review publications and advisor to many graduate and undergraduate students.