Personal information

There are a few photos of me in here (alone) and here (with my wife, Cecilia Guillen) and some with my whole family in here.

I am a research Astronomer at the Instituto de Astronomía (IAUNAM) which is part of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) .

I was born in México City, a city with a lot of peculiarities, such as this one. And, since we are talking about México I cannot stop without saying that Astronomy is one of the oldest traditions in the country. Many civilisations in the past studied the sky and built great observatories such as the Caracol Observatory made by the Mayas.

I like to do programming and sysadmin computers when I have some spare time. I respect a lot those great guys who have built GNU and I think that the GNU project is one of the best things on planet earth. I maintain the Debian GNU/Linux mirror at the Facultad de Ciencias (UNAM). Here is a link to nisamox.fciencias.unam.mx , the mirror server. Since we are talking about free software (now known as software "libre" to emphasise its liberty, or "libertad"), do not forget that Linux is pronounced "lee-nux". You can hear Linus Trovalds explaining this here . Ahh, and of course, vi is pronounced "vee eye".

Take a look at the campaigns which I support:

Are you wondering why this place has no gifs? Help us burning all your gifs. See the burn all your gifs campaign
Why We Must Fight UCITA
Boycott Amazon.com. In fact, the boycott has ended. I just left the link so that people know what Amazon did at that time!
Petition for a Europe free of software patents

I like the cinema a lot and I used to maintain the web pages of the MCR (Middle Common Room) Film Society at Churchill College, in Cambridge University.

As you have probably noticed I like México, its tradition and history a lot, and long time ago, I was in charge of the web pages of the Cambridge University Mexican Society (CUMEXSOC).

One of the most interesting photos I've seen of Xavier Hernandez and myself is this one taken in the gardens of the Institute of Astronomy of the University of Cambridge back in 1995.

If you are interested in watching videos made by me or made by others that are related to myself have a look at the following:

Talk given in 2006 at the Facultad de Quimica UNAM (check www.mendozza.org/sergio/talks for a copy of the talk) can be watched here.
My youtube videos are available here .

I like to run a lot and I managed to finish Mexico City's marathon on September 2001. Cycling is one of the things I try to do as much as I can, but obviously living in the third biggest metropolitan area in the world (and the 9th largest city in the world), makes this very complicated. Mountaineering is what I call my favourite sport, and I am a member of the Montañismo y exploración UNAM .

This page was written by Sergio Mendoza. If you have any comments or suggestions, please e-mail me at sergio@mendozza.org. You can fetch my GNUpg Public Key over here in case you want to get in touch with me privately. This place is Best Viewed with Any Browser.