Dr. Ortiz-Ledon earned his B.S. in 2012 from Universidad Autonoma de Ciudad Juarez in Chihuahua, Mexico. During his undergraduate studies, he conducted research in developing electrode materials for microbial fuell cell applications, this was the first time he worked in electrochemistry and after this, he decided to pursue a Ph.D. in chemistry. In 2013, he joined the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry  at New Mexico State University as a graduate student and in 2014 he joined Professor Cynthia Zoski's research group, where he worked on electrocatalysis of hydrogen evolution reaction at nanoparticle ensembles and single-nanoparticle level. During his graduate studies he developed a huge interest in understanding electrochemical interfaces at the nanoscale level and find better analytical techniques to study them, in 2017 he joined the Center for Electrochemistry at the University of Texas at Austin where he learned fabrication of nanoelectrodes to study electrocatalysis at single nanoparticles. After earning his Ph.D. from New Mexico State University,  he joined Professor Robert Hamers research group at the University of Wisconsin-Madison as a postdoctoral researcher where he work on developing in situ techniques to study Li-ion batteries in collaboration with Koura, Silatronix, Inc. In 2024 he joined the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at EIU where his research group will focus on developing and utilizing in situ techniques to study electrochemical interfaces at the nanoscale level to understand how confinement affects electron transfer reactions and its potential applications for energy conversion and storage.