PhD in Political and Social Sciences from Pompeu Fabra University. He earned his degree with the dissertation “Dealing with the Intermediation Crisis: The Political Outcomes of Collective Action in Chile.”

Political Scientist and Master’s in Sociology from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.

His doctoral research studied the political impacts of protests and social movements in Chile and Latin America within the context of a crisis of intermediation. His dissertation evaluated four factors and their interaction: the scope of the mobilizations, the tactics of mobilization, the organizational dimension of the mobilizations, and the structure of political opportunities.