Dr. Cuevas is Full Professor at the Institute of Chemistry, National Autonomous University of México, where he carries out experimental and theoretical research on the nature of the stereoelectronic effects and weak interactions, with the aim to establish their role on the conformation, reactivity and molecular recognition processes. He is responsible author of 43 articles, with an average impact index of 4.0 and has received 1,200 cites by other authors. He has been member of the Internal Council of the Institute of Chemistry since 2003; he was elected representative of the Institute’s academic body at the Coordination of Scientific Research during 2003-2006, and at the Academic Council of the Biological and Health Sciences Area (UNAM). He has supervised 30 Bachelor’s, 12 Master and 6 Doctoral theses.

Dr. Cuevas focused on the Study of the contribution of the stereoelectronic effects in the conformational and reactive properties of chemical compounds, Study of weak interactions and their connection with molecular recognition, Computational study of the terminal biogenesis of natural products.