Welcome to my personal website! **
** Contents reflect personal views and/or opinions unless otherwise specified.
A few things you may want to check out are:
- An updated copy of my CV.
- A link to my public repositories for detail on pet projects.
- A set of (hopefully) down-to-earth science summaries of contributed work in projects section.
- An overview of ongoing research in blog posts.
- Contact information can be found at the bottom of this page.
About
I was born in San Luis Potosi, Mexico where I got my physics major at the Facultad de Ciencias of the Universidad Autonoma de San Luis Potosi in 2013. Throughout my undergraduate education I had the joy of working in Prof. Eduardo Gomez lab at the Instituto de Fisica, UASLP developing thermally ultrastable optical cavities with applications in atom gravimetry and quantum sensors.
I then completed my PhD at the University of Maryland College Park in 2020 working in Ian Spielman's RbChip lab as a NIST guest researcher for the Joint Quantum Institute. My doctoral dissertation focused on experiments with elongated ultracold bosonic gases for quantum simulation, where we developed in-situ imaging techniques to probe the local thermodynamics of low-dimensional bosonic gases, as well as digital holographic aberration correction techniques. I certainly like all things microscopy and quantum gases!
I am currently the Barish-Weiss postdoctoral fellow in Rana X. Adhikari's experimental gravity group in Caltech. I am collaborating with Mariner; a 40-meter prototype of next-generation cryogenic gravitational wave detectors, where I am focused in low-noise lasers in the short wave infrarred band (~ 2 um) and their downstream adaptation for experimental gravity.
I am interested in combining advanced interferometric techniques in quantum and classical systems to advance fundamental physics; including light, gravitational, and matter waves.
I am an open source software and hardware enthusiast, microscopy, and optics hobbyist, and applied physics afficionado.