He holds a degree in Communication and Journalism, a Master's degree in International Relations Studies and a PhD in Political and Social Sciences from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He is a full time professor-researcher attached to the Center for International Relations of the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences of the UNAM. His research interests are migration policies in North America, European Union, Mercosur and Africa, as well as integration processes in Latin America and the Caribbean. He is a member of the faculty of the Master's program in Migration Studies at the Universidad Iberoamericana (Santa Fe).

He is the author of the books Migración y bloques regionales: Retos actuales en Unión Europea, TLCAN y Mercosur (2011); Evolución de las políticas migratorias en el Mercosur. De las estrategias individuales de poblamiento a la formulación de una política común intrarregional (2015); and coordinator of the book Retos y oportunidades de la Alianza del Pacífico en el actual contexto internacional convulso (2019). He also writes articles for the newspapers El Popular de Puebla and El Imparcial de Oaxaca, and is the director of the Revista de Relaciones Internacionales de la UNAM.