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Daniel Sahagún Sánchez got his bachelor degree in Physics from the National Autonomous University of Mexico in 2001. In 2006 he obtained his PhD from Imperial College London, there he learnt a number of techniques related to manipulating ultracold atoms and Bose-Einstein condensates with atom chips and performed one of the first studies on the interaction between atoms and microfabricated structures. Thereafter, he did one post-doctoral stay in the Cretan Matterwaves group during its early stage and built with the team, from scratch, the atom interferometer where a BEC was observed overtaking the speed of sound for the first time. He did a second post-doctoral stay at the Centre for Quantum Technologies in Singapore that was dedicated to further develop the atom chips. From 2014 he joined the Institute of Physics of the National Autonomous University of Mexico as the founding leader of the Cold Atoms and Quantum Optics Laboratory. The research group that hi is head of has being dedicating its research towards building hybrid quantum systems with atoms and photons. So far they have been developing quantum light with suitable characteristics for interacting with atoms.