Research Group

Current members of my research group:

Previous postdocs:

Carlos Alvarado (2018). Currently Professor at Vassar College.
Enrique Jiménez (2016-2018). Currently working in industry.
Carlos Vaquera Araujo (2013-2015). Currently at Universidad de Guanajuato.
Alma Dolores Rojas Pacheco (2010-2012). Currently at COBAEP Puebla.

Graduate Research Students:

PhD

Enrique Díaz Méndez (BUAP, co-advisor Dr. J.L. Díaz Cruz). PhD thesis title: Fenomenología del Sabor en Modelos de Dos Dobletes con Texturas, Junio 2017. Currently at Psiquantum.

Francisco José de Anda Navarro (Universidad de Guadalajara). PhD thesis title: Explorando modelos más allá del Modelo Estándar, December 2015. Researcher at TITS.

Alfonso Díaz Furlong (Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, co-advisor Dr. Lorenzo Díaz Cruz). PhD thesis title: Physics Beyond the Standard Model in the Randall-Sundrum Geometry, November 2012. Currently at BUAP.

Alma Dolores Rojas Pacheco (Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, co-advisor Dr. Lorenzo Díaz-Cruz). Ph D thesis title: Representaciones tensoriales 45 – dimensionales en modelos SUSY – GUT, April 2010. Currently at COBAEP Puebla.

MSc

César Bonilla (Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, co-advisor Dr. Lorenzo Díaz Cruz). M.S. thesis title: Simetrías Abelianas de sabor en modelos con tres dobletes de Higgs, enero 2013. Currently a professor at Universidad Católica del Norte.

J. Alberto Acosta López (Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, co-advisor Dr. Alberto Molgado). M.S. thesis title: Rompimiento de la simetría contínua SU(2) hacia el grupo discreto no-Abeliano , April 2012.

Enrique Díaz Méndez (University of Texas at El Paso). M.S. thesis title: Electroweak Scale Neutrinos, May 2009. Currently at Psiquantum.

Eric Sánchez (University of Texas at El Paso). M.S. Report: Some Comments on the Standard Model and its Possible Extensions, November 2007.

José Valadéz (University of Texas at El Paso). M.S. thesis title: Neutrino mass models in extra dimensions, May 2005. Currently at UACJ.

Undergraduate Research Students:

Christopher Cerda Puga (Universidad de Colima). Undergraduate research project title: The Standard Electroweak Model: A Theoretical and Phenomenological Study, June 2025. Currently a graduate student at the University of Notre Dame.

Yahir Benjamín Lúa Virgen (Universidad de Colima). Undergraduate research project title: The Standard model and beyond: Exploring Lepton Number as a Gauge Symmetry, June 2025. Currently a research assistant at UCOL.

Emmanuel Leon López (Universidad de Colima). Undergraduate research project title: Conceptos de Astrofísica, June 2024. Currently a graduate student at IFUNAM

Saúl Lima Salas (Undergraduate student – Universidad de Puebla). Member of my research group @ Colima from June 2023 – July 2024. Currently a graduate student at Indiana University.

Héctor Andrés Verduzco Acevedo (Universidad de Colima). Thesis title: Bremsstrahlung in Neutrino Scattering: A Small Step Beyond the Standard Model, June 2023. Currently a graduate student at Oklahoma State University.

Geraldine Esperanza Cabrera Chávez (Universidad de Colima). Thesis title: A Study of the Standard Model and a Subtle Exploration into Dark Matter, June 2023. Currently a graduate student at Oklahoma State University.

Itzelli Salazar Segovia (Universidad de Colima). Thesis title: Maximal Entanglement and unconstrained
Quantum Electrodynamics, June 2022. Currently a graduate student at University of California, Davis.

Gabriel Alejandro Jacobo Pamplona (Universidad de Colima). Thesis title: The Standard Model and massive neutrinos, July 2021. Currently a graduate student at University of Oregon.

Kort Gerardo Rodríguez Beck (Universidad de Coahuila). Member of my research group @ Colima from June 2021 – July 2022. Currently a graduate student at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Francisco Castillo Lona (Universidad de Colima). Thesis title: Setting up an Extra U(1) Gauge Symmetry Group in the Standard Model of Particle Physics, July 2020. Currently a graduate student at UCOL (other field).

Luis Delgadillo Franco (Universidad de Colima). Thesis title: Violación de CP y neutrinos, July 2017. Currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at IHEP.

Daniel Castellanos Magaña (Universidad de Colima). Thesis title: Cristales candidatos para la detección de Axiones a través de transiciones electrónicas, July 2016.

Jorge Alberto Torres Espinosa (Universidad de Colima). Thesis title: Breve introducción al Modelo Estándar de física de partículas, July 2015. Currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Utah.

Manuel A. Buen Abad Nájar (Universidad de Colima). Thesis title: Una introducción a la Unificación Gauge-Higgs, July 2013. Currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Maryland.

Francisco Berúmen Murillo (Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, co-advisor Dr. Carlos A. Ortiz González). Thesis title: Higgs vs No-Higgs en el Modelo Estándar, October 2012. Currently a Ph. D. student at Université Laval .

José Andrés Sepúlveda Quiroz (Universidad de Colima, , co-advisor Dr. Jonathan Paley). Thesis title: Encontrando vértices en eventos neutrino-núcleo para el experimento NOA, July 2011. Currently at Intel.

Raymundo Alberto Ramos Anguiano (Universidad de Colima). Undergraduate Thesis title: Mezcla tribimaximal de neutrinos, July 2010. Currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at KIAS.

Francisco José de Anda Navarro (Universidad de Guadalajara). Undergraduate Research Report:  Electroweak Scale neutrinos and Decaying Dark Matter, December 2009. Currently at TITS (researcher, staff).

Mónica Felipa Ramírez Palacios (Universidad de Guadalajara). Undergraduate Research Report: Neutrino Physics, December 2009. Currently at TITS (researcher, staff).

Arturo González Alatorre (Universidad de Colima, co-advisor Dr. Jonathan Paley). Undergraduate Thesis title: Interferometría de piones, August 2009.

Salvador Zamudio (Universidad de Colima). Undergraduate Thesis title: Una introducción básica a teoría de campo, May 2008.

Clayma Barajas (Universidad de Colima). Undergraduate Thesis title: Dirac vs. Majorana: Procesos fundamentales de los neutrinos de Majorana, May 2006

Summer Research Students:

Laxmi Emilia Valdivio López (Universidad de Guadalajara). REU undergraduate student, Summer 2024.

Alejandro Hernández Carrasco (Universidad Veracruzana). REU undergraduate student, Summer 2024.

Hancel de Jesús Borrego Cortez (UNISON). REU undergraduate student, Summer 2023.

Pablo Sebastián Vázquez Loreto (UNISON). REU undergraduate student, Summer 2023.

Jesús Alberto Velázquez Corral (UNISON). REU undergraduate student, Summer 2023.

Saúl Lima Salas (BUAP). REU undergraduate student, Summer 2023.

Jeoshua Alejandro Licea García (IPN). REU undergraduate student, Summer 2022.

Eduardo Tirado (Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa). REU undergraduate student, Summer 2022.

Ramón Sánchez (Universidad Autónoma de Chiapas). REU undergraduate student, Summer 2022.

Jorge Blanco Díaz (Universidad Autónoma de Chiapas). REU undergraduate student, Summer 2022.

Héctor Miguel Flores Huereca (Universidad de Sonora). REU undergraduate student, Summer 2022.

Eduardo Alberto Ramírez Soto (Universidad Autónoma de Cd. Juárez). REU undergraduate student, Summer 2022.

Gustavo Rodríguez Espejo (Universidad Veracruzana). REU undergraduate student, Summer 2022.

Juan Salvador García (B. Universidad Autónoma de Puebla). REU undergraduate student, Summer 2022.

José Luis Flores Pon (Universidad Autónoma de Chiapas). REU undergraduate student, Summer 2022.

Priscila Canseco (Universidad Autónoma de Chiapas). REU undergraduate student, Summer 2022.

Kort Rodríguez Beck (Universidad de Coahuila). REU undergraduate student, Summer 2021. Currently a graduate student at University of Illinois Urbana-Champagne.

Rolando Martínez Ramírez (Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí). REU undergraduate student, Summer 2018. Currently a graduate student at UNAM.

Mitzi Guadalupe Saldivar Omaña (Universidad de Guadalajara). REU undergraduate student, Summer 2018.

André Valera Pérez (B. Universidad Autónoma de Puebla). REU undergraduate student, Summer 2018.

Edgar Alejandro Esquivel Fajardo (Tecnológico Superior de Uruapan). REU undergraduate student, Summer 2018.

Alhely González Luna (B. Universidad de Puebla). REU undergraduate student, Summer 2018.

Diego Alberto Lugo Tapia (CESyT Juan de dios Bátiz). REU highschool student, Summer 2018.

Alex Santacruz Casillas (Universidad Autónoma de Baja California). REU undergraduate student, Summer 2018.

María Martínez Casales (Tecnológico de Monterrey). REU undergraduate student, Summer 2015. Currently a graduate student at Iowa State University.

Rosa Zamora Peinado (Universidad de Sonora). REU undergraduate student, Summer 2015.

Luis Carlos Camacho Chávez (Universidad de Guadalajara). REU undergraduate student, Summer 2013. Currently a graduate student at CINVESTAV.

Luis Alberto Zazueta Reyes (Universidad de Sonora). REU undergraduate student, Summer 2012. Currently a graduate student at College of William and Mary.

Maura Elizabeth Ramírez Quezada (Universidad de Sonora). REU undergraduate student, Summer 2013. Currently a postdoc at University of Tokyo.

Aurora de los Ángeles Durán Martínez (Universidad de Guadalajara). REU undergraduate student, Summer 2013.

Luis Alberto Zazueta Reyes (Universidad de Sonora). REU undergraduate student, Summer 2012. Currently a graduate student at College of William and Mary.

Arturo Chávez Filio (IPN). REU undergraduate student, Summer 2012. Currently a graduate student at CINVESTAV.

Óscar Sanders Muñoz (CESyT Juan de dios Bátiz). REU highschool student, Summer 2012. Currently a graduate student at CINVESTAV.

Rodrigo Alarcón Cabrera (CESyT Juan de dios Bátiz). REU highschool student, Summer 2012. Currently a graduate student at CINVESTAV.