I am from a small town in the west of Jalisco, Mexico. I pursued my undergraduate studies at Universidad de Guadalajara, campus Puerto Vallarta (CUC).

During this time, I worked with aquaculture organisms such as shrimp and fish, covering aspects from rearing and diet to ecology. My undergraduate thesis focused on utilizing marine crabs as a source of pigments for koi carp.

After graduating, I started to work in environmental consulting in the Riviera Maya, in the Southeast of Mexico, and in 2017 I moved to Ireland to learn english. While I was in Ireland learning the english language, I knew about KAUST, and I applied in 2019, and later in august that year, I started my masters under the direction of Professor Michael Berumen within the Reef Ecology Lab. My master thesis was focused in the spatial dynamics of coral reef fish assemblages in three regions of the Red Sea, where I was very lucky to work under the direct supervision of Professor Susana Carvalho.

In 2021, I embarked on my PhD journey, with a shift in focus towards bacterial communities. In the first year of my PhD, I had the opportunity to collaborate with Red Sea Global on a project aimed at studying the bacterial communities of the Al Wahj Lagoon. My current research explores the variations in bacterial communities across different gradients, including spatial, spatio-temporal, and anthropogenic.

Throughout my academic journey at KAUST, I have participated in several research expeditions within the Red Sea and also one in Papua New Guinea, conducting biodiversity surveys in coral reefs and harnessing the use of eDNA in biodiversity surveys. As a student, where I presented my research and engaged with fellow scholars and experts in the field. Because KAUST is a university that fosters collaborations, I have also taken part in different projects of other fellow students and also participated in other programs such as the retrieval of Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structures (ARMS) in different areas of the Red Sea.