He completed his doctoral dissertation, entitled ‘Coming to Terms with the Past: Power, Memory and Legitimacy in Truth Commissions’ in the Department of Political Science at Yale University in May 2011 with distinction. His research and teaching interests include memory politics, transitional justice, Latin American politics, and normative political theory. His article, ‘From Denial to Reluctant Dialogue: the Chilean Military’s Confrontation with Human Rights (1990-2006)’, was published in the International Journal of Transitional Justice in 2010.