He obtained a PhD from Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, while working at the GSyC/Libresoft research group. His research interests lie in the intersection between software evolution, mining software repositories, and empirical software engineering, with an emphasis on large scale studies and statistical analysis of software projects. He is a member of the editorial review board of the International Journal of Open Source Software and Processes (IJOSSP) and the International Journal of Social and Organizational Dynamics in IT (IJSODIT).