Dr. Tavares-Velasco graduated as a bachelor of science degree in engineering physics at Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, with a final project on numerical solutions to Navier-Stokes equations by the finite element method. He then went on to pursue a Ph. D at the Physics Department of Cinvestav IPN under the advice of  Dr. Miguel Angel Pérez Angón, and he graduated in 2001 with the  thesis entitled “New physics in rare process involving the Z gauge boson, the top quark and the photon”, out of which 7 research articles were published in peer-reviewed international journals. After a short stint as a postdoctoral fellow at Instituto de Física de la Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolas de Hidalgo, Dr. Tavares-Velasco incorporated in 2003 as a full-time professor at the Facultad de Ciencias Físico Matemáticas de la Benemérita Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana. The bulk of the research work of Dr. Tavares-Velasco has been focused on the study of the phenomenology of the weak interaction in the standard model and extension theories, with special emphasis on the calculation of radiative corrections at the one-loop level.  As of 2018, Dr. Tavares-Velasco has advised the thesis projects of 12 bachelor students, 9 master of science students and 5 Ph. D students. His scientific production consists of 49 research articles published in peer-reviewed international journals such as Physical Review D (33), Physics Letter B (5), Journal of Physics G (5), International Journal of Modern Physics A (4), Europhysical Journal C (1) and Europhysics Letters (1). According to the INSPIRE preprint database, as of november 2018, Dr. Tavares-Velasco’s articles had received 469 citations,  excluding self-citations. In 2015, Dr. Tavares-Velasco was promoted to national researcher level III in Sistema Nacional de Investigadores of Conacyt (México).