Licenciatura: Ingeniero Geólogo, Facultad de Ciencias de la Tierra, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, 1991.
Maestría: Technische Universität Clausthal, Alemania, 1996.
Doctorado: Technische Universität Clausthal, Alemania, 2000.?

Líneas de Investigación.

Rocas sedimentarias carbonatadas (calizas), ambientes de deposito, micro-facies y estratigrafÍa.
Rocas naturales de construcción, propiedades geoquímicas, petrofísicas y mecánicas aplicadas al cuidado, preservación y restauración en edificios históricos.

Publicaciones Recientes (últimos 5 años).

OMAÑA, L., LÓPEZ DONCEL, R.A., TORRES HERNÁNDEZ, J.R., BARBOZA GUDIÑO, J.R. (2022): Disconformity between the El Abra Formation underlying the “Temazcal unit” in Cerro Quemado locality, Temazcal, San Luis Potosí, Mexico: Biostratigraphy and microfacies analysis. Boletín de la Sociedad Geológica Mexicana, Vol. 74, No. 1.

OMAÑA, L., LÓPEZ DONCEL, R.A., TORRES HERNÁNDEZ, J.R., NÚÑEZ USECHE, F., EDITH CIENFUEGOS, E. (2022): The Cenomanian–Turonian oceanic anoxic event (OAE–2) and continuous drowning up to the Santonian of the W Valles–San Luis Potosí Platform, Central to Eastern Mexico: Biostratigraphy, chemostratigraphy and paleoenvironments. Micropaleontology. Micropaleontol- ogy, vol. 68, no. 1, pp. 29–50

POETZL, CHR., SIEGESMUND, S., LÓPEZ-DONCEL R.A. and DOHRMANN, R. (2022): Key parameters of volcanic tuffs used as building stone: a statistical approach. Environmental Earth Sciences. Environmental Earth Sciences (2022) 81:10

SOUSA, L., MENNINGEN, J., LÓPEZ-DONCEL, R.A., SIEGESMUND, S. (2021): Petrophysical properties of limestones - influence on behaviour under different environmental conditions and applications. Environmental Earth Sciences 80:814

SIECK, P., LÓPEZ-DONCEL, R.A., AGUILLÓN-ROBLES, A., CRUZ-CASTILLO, J.U., WEMMER, K. (2021): Origin and evolution of the Oligocene rhyolitic mag- mas in the Mesa Central of Mexico: geochemical, petrological and geochronological evidence from the Guanamé Ignimbrite. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 110(8), pp. 2863–2884

SIECK, P., DÁVILA-HARRIS, P., LÓPEZ-DONCEL, R.A., ALMAGUER, J., AGUILLÓN-ROBLES, A. WEMMER, K. & GUEVARA, R. (2021): Voluminous Paleogene volcanism in the southern Mesa Central, Mexico: Unravelling the fis- surefed origin of rhyolitic ignimbrites of the Villa Garcia-Loreto Volcanic Complex. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 2021, 415, 107252

ORENDAY-TAPIA, E.E., CHÁVEZ-CANO, M.M., PACHECO-MARTÍNEZ, J., LÓPEZ-DONCEL, R.A., PADILLA-CENICEROS, R. (2021): Relation between the velocity propagation of seismic wave (Vp) and density of historical masonry Environmental Earth Sciences, 80(14), 464

LÓPEZ DONCEL, R.A. (2021): Siegesmund, S. & Middendorf, B. (eds.): Monument future: decay and conservation of stone. Environmental Earth Sciences 80: 56 (2021).

OMAÑA, L., LÓPEZ DONCEL, R., TORRES HERNÁNDEZ, J.R., ALENCASTER, G., LÓPEZ CABALLERO, I. (2019): Mid-late Cenomanian larger benthic foraminifers from the El Abra Formation, Valles-San Luis Potosí Platform, central-eastern Mexico: Taxonomy, biostratigraphy and paleoenvironmental implications. Boletin de la Sociedad Geológica Mexicana, Vol. 71, No. 3, P. 691 ? 725.

PASCAL SIECK, RUBE´N LO´PEZ-DONCEL, PABLO DA´VILA-HARRIS, ALFREDO AGUILLO´N-ROBLES, KLAUS WEMMER, RENE´ C. MAURY (2019): Almandine garnet-bearing rhyolites associated to bimodal volcanism in the Mesa Central of Mexico: Geochemical, petrological and geochronological evolution. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 92 (2019) 310–328

SIEGESMUND, S., SOUSA, L. & LÓPEZ-DONCEL, R.A. (2018): Editorial to the topical collection in Environmental Earth Sciences "Stone in the architectural heritage: from quarry to monuments—environment, exploitation, properties and durability". Environ Earth Sci (2018) 77: 730.

MARÍA ELENA GARCÍA-ARREOLA, M.E., FLORES-VÉLEZ, L.M., LOREDO-TOVÍAS, M., AGUI LLÓN-ROBLES, A., LÓPEZ-DONCEL, R.A., CANO-RODRÍGUEZ, I. & SORIANO-PÉREZ, S.H. (2018): Assessment of the acid drainage neutralization capacity and the toxic metals lixiviation of tailing from Guanajuato mining district, Mexico. Environmental Earth Sciences (2018) 77: 355.

LÓPEZ-DONCEL, R., WEDEKIND, W., AGUILLÓN-ROBLES, A., DOHRMANN, R., MOLINA-MALDONADO, S., LEISER, T., WITTENBORN, A. & SIEGESMUND, S. (2018): Thermal expansion on volcanic tuff rocks used as building stones: examples from Mexico. Environmental Earth Sciences 77:338

ORENDAY-TAPIA, E. E., PACHECO-MARTI´NEZ J., PADILLA-CENICEROS R. & LO´PEZ-DONCEL R. A. (2018): In situ and nondestructive characterization of mechanical properties of heritage stone masonry. Environmental Earth Sciences (2018) 77:286

SIESGESMUND, S., LÓPEZ-DONCEL, R., SIECK, P., WILKE, H., WEMMER, K., FREI, D. & ORIOLO, S. (2018): Geochronological and geochemical constraints on the genesis of Cu-Au skarn deposits of the Santa María de la Paz district (Sierra del Fraile, Mexico). Ore Geology Reviews 94 (2018) 310–325

Estudiantes Vigentes.

Daria Marcela Barboza Treviño (Licenciatura)

Lic. Rest. Gustavo Rivera Zamora (Maestría en Geología Aplicada)

M. C. Gabriela Mora Navarro (Doctorado, DICIM)

Proyectos Vigentes.