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, NASA. 2023 Phase 1 awardee of the MUREP Partnership Learning Annual Notification (MPLAN)
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