Vita

Víctor was born in Monterrey, México, on February 24^th, 1969. Due to his father's job, the family alternated residence between Monterrey and México City, to finally settle down in Monterrey. There Víctor pursued his B.S. in Industrial Chemistry at UANL and, after graduation, held his first job as a Quality Control chemist. Having decided that his chemical skills required (substantial) polishing, he joined the PhD program at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, LA. At LSU he joined Professor Gandour's research group, while thoroughly enjoying the Cajun and Creole heritage of the land (Mardi Gras included). Little he suspected that he would later be transferring to Virginia Tech, following his advisor. While at Virginia Tech, he decided that computers were fun and chemistry was fun so putting them together would be fun². Thus he turned his interests to Computational Chemistry, to finally get his Ph.D. as a Computational Bioorganic Chemist.