The construction of this web page started on January 31st, 2009, while being on a 1-year postdoc at Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain (therefore the picture). At that time I was on a one-year leave of absence in my home university: Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo, México, which I joined in July 2008.
About the picture: I arrived in Madrid on the very cold snowy morning of January 8th, 2009; the picture was taken that weekend (10th or 11th). This is the back of Palacio Real; the door on the bottom left, next to the stairs, is the entrance to the kitchen.
I flew to Madrid from Austin, Texas, a place I will always consider my adoptive home.
--JVR.
