He holds a Bachelor's degree in International Relations and a Master's degree in International Relations from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He holds a second master's degree in International Policy Studies and a specialization in Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation Studies from the Monterey Institute of International Studies in California, United States. He is a graduate of the William Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies in Washington, D.C., USA, and the Regional Center for Counterterrorism in Southeast Asia in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He is a PhD candidate in Political and Social Sciences at UNAM. His research interests include national and international security, terrorism, organized crime, weapons of mass destruction and regional studies in Asia. He has served as a professor in prestigious national and international, public and private educational institutions, and as an instructor on security issues in several countries. Currently, he is a professor at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences and academic coordinator of the Diploma in Terrorism Analysis at UNAM