He has more than 20 years of experience in the energy industry. He has held senior research and strategic leadership roles at ExxonMobil. Among other responsibilities, he served as a Senior Advisor to the Executive Team of the company, led multidisciplinary research groups promoting collaboration between industry, government and academia, and he was ExxonMobil representative at the Energy Centers of MIT, Stanford, Princeton and UT Austin.
He is a member of the ”Basic Energy Sciences Advisory Committee (BESAC)” of the U.S. Department of Energy.
He is a leader with a global impact in research and development; he led the commercialization of clean fuel technologies, managed teams of more than 1,500 scientists and engineers, and has a strong academic background. He has more than 30 patents and patent applications in USA and over 60 scientific publications.
He was a senior catalysis research engineer at BP (British Petroleum) and assistant professor at the University of Kansas. He has been member of the Board of several advisory committees, such as UC Davis, UC Riverside, Purdue U., Northwestern U. and Notre Dame U., among others. He has recently been elected President of the North American Catalysis Society.
He holds a degree in Chemical Engineering from Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (México); a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from UC Davis (USA), and postdoctoral studies at the Institute of Chemical Technology in Valencia (España).