He earned his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Barcelona in 2008. He received an international mobility grant from Finland to conduct research at the University of Tampere and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. He has also served as a consultant for the World Bank and has collaborated with various universities in Russia.
Since 2018, he has been a member of the Universidad Panamericana, Guadalajara campus, where he has served as a Research Professor in the School of Economics and Business. He currently holds the rank of Tenured Research Professor (D). He is a member of the National System of Researchers (SECIHTI), Level II.
He has received numerous awards and honors for his academic work, most notably the Revista de Comercio Exterior–Bancomext Award. His work has been published in highly prestigious academic journals, including *Economics of Innovation and New Technology*, *Communist and Post-Communist Studies*, *Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development*, and *Journal of Religion in Europe*. He currently serves as an editorial board member for *PLOS ONE*.
His research interests include international economics, applied economics, and the economics of education, among others.