He studied for his PhD in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh, working in the database group of the Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science under the supervision of Professor Leonid Libkin. He received the Best Paper Award at PODS in 2011 and the “Ramon Salas” Award for the best work in engineering produced by Chilean researchers in 2012. He has served on the program committee for SIGMOD and AAAI conferences and has published several papers in major database conferences and journals.