Archeologist, PhD in Anthropology and researcher of the National Research System. During her eight years with the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), she helped to build the database of the Juan Comas Camps Library. Her professional experience in archeology has taken her to the states of Morelos, Oaxaca, Quintana Roo, Queretaro, Zacatecas, State of Mexico, Hidalgo and Guerrero as well as to the Cuicuilco site in Mexico City. She has taught at the National School of Anthropology and History (ENAH), the Autonomous University of Queretaro, the Autonomous University of Guadalajara and the University of Zacatecas. She has been with INAH for the past 26 years and has been in charge of the Toluquilla research project at the Queretaro INAH Center from 1993 to the present. She contributed to the preparation of the Toluquilla and Las Misiones technical file for UNESCO, she has given more than 50 conferences and courses and takes an active part in a number of associations including AMMPE, ICOMOS, ALAB and SMA. She is a member of the INAH publications and internal evaluation committees, has been an assistant panel member for the Archeology Council of the Institute and has published five books, 34 academic pieces and 30 popular articles. She is also a contributer to the Diario de Querétaro. [Spanish language newspaper]