♦Programa de Apoyo a la Incorporacion de Personal Acadamico (PAIPA), Nivel C, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. 2008.
♦Best PhD Thesis 2004-2005 granted by the "Direccion General de Estudios de Posgrado" and "Programa de Posgrado en Ciencias de la Tierra" from UNAM, February, 2007.
♦Alfonso Caso Medal, granted by UNAM for the best graduate student within the PhD program in Sciences, April 7, 2006.
♦Best Presentation within the category of Graduate Students, oral presentations, The Geological Society of America, Cordilleran Section, Puerto Vallarta (Jalisco, Mexico), April 1-3, 2003.
♦DGEP (Direccion General de Estudios de Posgrado), PhD scholarship, 2001-2004, UNAM, Mexico.
♦ERASMUS-SOCRATES scholarship - Landslide hazard assessment using statistical methods (univariate, multivariate analysis, etc.) within a GIS software package;March - June 2000, Salzburg University, Austria.
♦Merit scholarship award at the University of Bucharest, Romania given by the Romanian Goverment 1996-1997 (Undergraduate student).
♦Merit scholarship award at the University of Civil Engineering, Bucharest, Romania given by the Romanian Goverment 1996 (MSc. Student).
♦Merit and Normal scholarships award at the University of Civil Engineering, Bucharest, Romania given by the Romanian Goverment 1991-1995 (Undergraduate student).