He got his PhD at Universidad de Chile working with Prof. N. Mujica on hydrodynamics of solitons in a quasi-one dimensional free surface. He has done his postoctoral research at Laboratoire de Matière et Systèmes Complexes at Université Paris Diderot and later in Prof. Cheng's group in the Chemical Engineering and Material Department at University of Minnesota. His research interests are Faraday waves, tsunamis, drop impact, boundary layers, acoustic streaming, and granular flows.