2025, WILEY, Top Viewed Article, Microbial Biotechnology, A model industrial workhorse: Bacillus subtilis strain 168 and its genome after a quarter of a century.
2025, Assigned time, DRI-SDSU
2024, CAREER award, Department of Energy
2024, NASA STAR (Spaceflight Technology, Applications and Research), training Award
2023, National Microbiome Collaborative, Department of Energy, Champion Award
Grants Research and Enterprise Writing (GREW) Fellowship – Fall
SDSU 2022, Inclusive Excellence Fellowship Summer 2022, SDSU
BSURE – Boosting Spaceflight Underrepresented Researcher Equity, Fellowship NASA
I-CORPS CSU Fellowship and GO decision for I-CORPS national
Assigned time, DRI-SDSU
Funding Support for Postdoctoral Fellowships, DRI-SDSU
2020, Water Journal Board Member
2019, Guided Engineering Apprenticeship in Research program (GEAR) advisor UCSD
2019, Member of the National System of Research, Level 1 CONACYT, Mexico
2017, Illustrious Guest at Alas Peruanas University, Lima, Peru
2016, Postdoctoral scholar fellowship 237897, CONACYT, $48K award
2014, Academic merit medal, PhD in biotechnology UAM-I, Mexico, DF
2011, Poster award XIII National Congress of Biotechnology and Engineering SMBB
2010, Academic merit medal, master in science of biotechnology UAM-I, Mexico, DF
2007, Recognition as one of the best graduates from the country of engineering in biotechnology. National Association of Colleges and Schools of Engineering (ANFEI) of Mexico