Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics (UNAM, 1982), a master’s degree in Statistics (University of Iowa, 1994) and Sociology (University of Iowa, 1996) and a PhD in Sociology (University of Iowa, 2000).

He has worked as a researcher in different institutions in the USA (2001-2008): at the Mayo Clinic (Rochester, Minnesota), at the University of Pennsylvania, and at the Arizona State University. His research interests are inequality and poverty and the development of advanced quantitative methodologies for social research.

He is currently a senior B professor at UNAM. He has published more than 50 articles in various national and international refereed academic journals and is co-author of two books. He has taught courses on structural modeling, longitudinal analysis, survey design in different Mexican institutions such as El Colegio de México, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, Banco de México, Universidad Anáhuac del Sur. He is a national researcher; currently, he has S.N.I. level II.