He has a PhD in science from the University of Dortmund, Germany, he has completed postdoctoral stays at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Chicago, United States), as well as at the Brazilian Center for Physical Research (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). He has been a researcher at the Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron in Hamburg, Germany and is currently an associate researcher at the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Switzerland and Professor at the Physics Department of the Center for Research and Advanced Studies at IPN (CINVESTAV) in Mexico.

He has published more than four hundred specialized articles in the area of ​​Elementary Particle Physics. He is the author of the books Between quarks and gluons: Mexicans at CERN (2011), The Great Hadron Collider: stories from the world's largest laboratory (2012), The Higgs, the Liquid Universe, and the Large Hadron Collider (2014) , Universe: the greatest story ever told (2016), The Random Art of Deception (2018). He has been a columnist in national newspapers and magazines (La Crónica de Hoy, Milenio Diario, El Universal, Este País).

He has participated in international and national scientific associations and committees. Since 1997 he has been a member of the Panel for Future Instrumentation Innovation and Development of the International Committee for Future Accelerators, and was invited to the ICFA International High Energy Physics Computing Coordination Committee. He was an advisor to the General Directorate, Academic Secretary of CINVESTAV and designated secretary of the Mexican Academy of Sciences, among other appointments.

Since 1994 he works in the ALICE collaboration of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.