VioDemos Principal Researcher. Professor at the Institute of Political Science of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and Associate Researcher at the Center for the Study of Policies and Practices in Education (CEPPE UC).

He has a degree in History UC, Master in Public Administration from Columbia University, Master and PhD in Political Science from New York University. 

His main research interests are Chilean politics, public policy, educational policy and citizenship education. In VioDemos he investigates the link between fraternity and other non-confrontational forms of relating -such as civic friendship, cooperation and interpersonal trust- with adversarial forms -such as political and structural violence- and the reciprocal effect of these forms on the quality of democracy and its institutions.

He is editor of the book Educación Ciudadana y Enseñanza Católica: La Fraternidad como Desiderátum (Ediciones UC, 2022) and co-editor (with Juan Pablo Luna) of the volume La Columna Vertebral Fracturada: Revisitando Intermediarios Políticos en Chile (RIL Editores, 2017).