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I am currently responsible for the Ultracold Matter Laboratory (LMU for its acronym in Spanish), the first quantum gases laboratory in Mexico. This laboratory is part of the National Quantum Matter Laboratory (LANMAC, for its acronym in Spanish), which is composed of a network of laboratories and research groups from different Mexican institutions. At the LMU we have built a new experiment to produce and study quantum gases composed of lithium atoms. Currently, our experimental system is capable of producing ultra-cold Fermi gases composed of Lithium-6 atoms in different superfluid regimes through the BEC-BCS crossover. In the future we will also be able to produce Bose-Einstein condensates composed of the Lithium-7 bosonic isotope. We are particularly interested in the study of collective excitations in these ultracold systems. We are currently studying the production and propagation of Faraday waves, which is a parametric excitation of phononic nature. In the near future we will also study the phenomenon of quantum turbulence in atomic superfluids. This is characterized by the presence of numerous entangled quantized vortices, giving rise to a very interesting energy dissipation dynamic.