Dr. Ricardo Chávez Murillo holds a Bachelor's degree in Mechatronics Engineering from the Tecnológico Nacional de México, alongside both a Master's degree and Ph.D. in Astrophysics (awarded in 2010 and 2014) from the Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica (INAOE). His doctoral dissertation focused on constraining the dark energy equation of state parameter space using alternative cosmic tracers. He completed postdoctoral research stays at the Cavendish Laboratory and Kavli Institute for Cosmology at the University of Cambridge (UK), as well as at the Institute of Radio Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (IRyA-UNAM). Furthermore, he served as a support astronomer for the Large Millimeter Telescope and as a SECIHTI 'Investigador por México' researcher at IRyA-UNAM.

He holds Level I status in Mexico's National System of Researchers (SNII) and is a member of the International Astronomical Union and the Mexican Physical Society. His honors include the 2013–2014 Best Doctoral Dissertation Award and Honorable Mention for Master's Thesis at the National Astronomy Congress, as well as the Excellence Graduate Student Award from the State Government of Puebla.

His research specializes in observational cosmology, extragalactic astrophysics, and astronomical spectroscopy, highlighting the study and calibration of the Hβ line luminosity versus velocity dispersion relation in H II galaxies to measure cosmic distances, the expansion history of the Universe, the Hubble constant, and dark energy. He has led CONAHCYT Frontier Science projects and investigated Hubble constant tension using observational data from VLT, Keck, JWST, and the Large Millimeter Telescope. His scholarly record includes around 30 publications with over 1,300 citations (h-index of 15), combining his research with graduate teaching, scientific open-source software development, and public science outreach.