Designer with mention in Product Design and Bachelor in Design from the University of Valparaiso, Chile.
Doctor (Ph.D.) in Design, Manufacture and Management of Industrial Projects, Master in Design and Manufacture Integrated by computer (CAD CAM CIM) and Master in Design, Management and Development of New Products, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain. Diploma in 3D Animation, University of Santiago de Chile.
He has worked as an independent Industrial Design consultant since 1997, doing professional work in Chile, Argentina and Spain and in the academy since 2005, teaching courses such as "Industrial Design Studio" and 3D Modeling and product representation in University of Santiago de Chile (USACH), Inacap, Technical University Federico Santa María (UTFSM) and since 2013 at the University of Chile (UCh), where from 2016 is a faculty from the Design Department at the Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning. In 2018 he was recognized as the best teacher of the Design undergraduate program.
Since 2009, when he began his doctorate as a fellow of the "Becas Chile" program, he has developed research in the area of "Emotional Design of Products and Services", a subject in which he has numerous indexed publications Wos and Scopus, conference papers and chapters in books published internationally. He has worked as reviewer and judge for the national FONDART Design area, the advanced human capital training program from CONICYT, external evaluator for the NWO (Netherlands organization for scientific research) and carried out consultancies on the area of Design and emotions for various media and institutions.
Since his incorporation to the Design Department in 2016, he has been awarded several competitive research funds through external programs such as FONDECYT INICIACION 2019, FONDECYT REGULAR 2020 Y VIU (CONICYT), Fondart nacional área Diseño 2018, and internal programs of the U. de Chile such as the U-INICIA 2017 fund and the Infrastructure for research fund of the Vicerrectoría de Investigación y Desarrollo (2019, VID U. Chile).