Prof. Díaz Cruz has a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from the University of Michigan (1989); he also holds a M.SC degree from CINVESTAV-IPN (México) and Undergraduate degree from Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (México). After a postdoctoral position at Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona (1990-1992), he returned to México for a research position at the Physics Department of CINVESTAV-IPN (México). Currently, he has a permanent position as “Profesor-Investigador Titular C” at Benemerita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (México). Dr Diaz-Cruz is member of the “Academia Mexicana de Ciencias, and acted as President of the Division of Particles and Fields of the Mexican Physical Society for the period 2000-2002. As member of “Sistema Nacional de Investigadores” (SNI, level 3), he has also been part of the SNI and CONACYT evaluation committee. His research work in the area of Elementary Particle Physics has produced over 130 papers, 89 of them being published in international indexed journals. Some of his papers dealing with the properties of Higgs particles have inspired searches at experimental facilities, such as Fermilab (USA) and CERN (Europe). His complete papers have generated over 3400 citations. Dr Diaz-Cruz has delivered seminars and talks at universities in USA, Spain, Japan, England, Italy, Poland, Russia, Brazil and Taiwan. He has been visiting professor at University of California (Berkeley), Michigan State University (USA), Warsaw University (Poland) and Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain). He received a Honorary Mention at Premio Nacional de la Juventud (1985, México) and the Puebla Prize for Science and Technology Achievements in 2009.
