Awards and Honors
- National Researcher Level III (of III) SNI since January 2011
- Premio Ciudad capital "Herberto Castillo Martínez", 2010
- Mexican Academy of Sciences Award 2009, Basic Research in Exact Sciences.
- Thomson Reuters Award (Institute for Scientific Information) to the most cited Mexican contribution in
Chemistry in the last decade, Sept. 2009. - Award to the direction of the best doctoral thesis in Material Science 2008, IIM-UNAM 2008 (Ana Lilia Gonzalez)
- Award to the direction of the best doctoral thesis in Material Science 2006, IIM-UNAM 2006 (Xochitl Lopez Lozano)
- Distinguished Young Researcher in Exact Sciences 2006, UNAM.
- Ricardo J. Zevada Foundation prize to young scientists research projects in Science 1999-2000.
- The work “Theoretical and experimental optical spectroscopy study of hydrogen adsorption at Si(111)- 7×7”, by Cecilia Noguez, C. Beitia, W. Preyss, A.I. Shkrebtii, M. Roy, Y. Borensztein, R. Del Sole, Physical Review Letters 76, 4923 – 4926 (1996) was selected for the Highlights INFM 1996–1997 as a work of excellence (Italy).
- Weizmann Award to the best Ph. D. thesis in Exact Science 1996 (Mexican Academy of Science).
- Gabino Barreda Medal to the best Ph. D. student in Physics 1996 (UNAM).