I work at INAOE (Instituto Nacional de Astrofisica, Optica y Electronica), located at Santa Maria Tonantzintla, Puebla, Mexico. My research fields are analysis of structure of galaxies, NIR photometry and N-Body simulations.

I was an undergraduate at UFRGS (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul), in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, working with Horacio Dottori, in the Astronomy Department. I got my PhD thesis (Etude des structures des disques galactiques) at Observatoire de Marseille , France.

INAOE Astrophysics Department Colloquia Organizer period 2/2004 - 1/2005

Publications

Supervised theses

Divulgación: Eventos Intergalácticos (en español)

Edited Books

Toward a New Millennium in Galaxy Morphology (2000)

Penetrating Bars Through Masks of Cosmic Dust: The Hubble Tuning Fork Strikes a New Note (2004)

Galaxies and their Masks (2010)

Personal things

Some pre-hispanic draws

Some images from Hubble Telescope

Surprise (only over 18...)

Always under construction ...