Jorge Rivera Noriega obtained the B. Sc. and M. Sc. degrees from the National Autonomous University of Mexico. As a fellow of the CONACYT-Fulbright-García Robles program he pursued the doctoral studies at the University of Missouri-Columbia, and upon obtaining the Ph. D. degree under supervision of Prof. Steve Hofmann, he took a three-year position as J. L. Doob Posdoctoral Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has been teaching and developing his research in México ever since, and has been director of several thesis at the undergraduate, master and doctoral degree level. He has also been mentor of several posdoctoral fellows. He started teaching at ITAM in the Autumn Semester of 2017. His research interests are focused on certain interactions of modern Fourier analysis with partial differential equations, functional analysis and geometric measure theory.