Cognitive-behavioral psychotherapist and doctor in biomedical sciences, has been dedicated to teaching, research and scientific dissemination. His interests include the history of psychology, research methodology, psychometrics and health psychology. In the area of neuroscience, his work has focused on the study of the olfactory system, appetitive behaviors and optogenetic control of the prefrontal cortex in relapse to cocaine self-administration. Currently collaborates with the project "Dialogue of knowledge around the therapeutic potentialities of mushrooms containing psilocybin. A transdisciplinary study through neuroscience, psychology, anthropology, history and indigenous traditional knowledge" (CONAHCyT #1560311), which has allowed him to study the neuropsychologic effects of psilocybin, the substance responsible for the psychedelic experience of hallucinogenic mushrooms and approached him to its ritual use.