Professional Background

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1. Education

University of California, Berkeley

 Ph.D. UC Berkeley (May 2018)

         M.P.P. UC Berkeley (2014)

    Pontificia Universidad Católica - Chile (PUC)

M.A. Sociology, PUC- Chile (2006)

Professional Degree. Civil Engineering, Transportation and Industrial Engineering, PUC-Chile (2005)

B.Sc. Civil Engineering, PUC-Chile (2004)

2. Teaching 

School of Engineering, PUC-Chile (2021 - )

Applied Econometrics  (Teaching 250 undergraduate students-semester per year. Greene and Angrist-Pischke textbooks)

Advanced Econometrics  (Teaching Graduate Level. Imbens - Rubin textbook)

Economics for Hard Times  (Teaching Professional Master Program. Duflo-Banerjee book)

Introduction to Economics (Academic Director: 900 students per year. Combining Varian, Mankiw and CORE textbooks)

Graduate Student Instructor (50%), Department of Economics, UC Berkeley (2017)

Introduction to Economics (2 sections, 30 students each). Professor Enrico Moretti

Lecturer (full time), Department of Sociology, PUC-Chile (2011)

Master Program: Thesis Seminar

Postgraduate Diploma:  Poverty and Social Protection in Latin America: Course for the Organization of the American States – OAS (online course)

Undergraduate: Poverty and Social Inequality

 Lecturer (part time), Department of Sociology, PUC-Chile (2007 - 2010)

Graduate Level: Public Policy Analysis (2007, 2008, 2009); Sociology of Poverty (2010)

Undergraduate Level: Poverty and Social Inequality (2008, 2009, 2010); Social Research Methods (2007)

Lecturer (part time), Department of Industrial Engineering, PUC-Chile (2008 – 2009)

Undergraduate Level: Introduction to Engineering (2009); Introduction to Economic Analysis (2008)

Teaching Assistant (part time), Several Departments at PUC-Chile (2001 – 2005)

Civil Engineering: Fluids Mechanics (2001), Introduction to Economic Analysis (2002), Stochastic Models (2003, 2004). 

Physics: Electricity and Magnetism (2002, 2003).

Sociology: Sociology of Symbols (2004), Theory of Collective Action (2005).

3. Professional Activities

National Director, TECHO - Chile (2009-2011)

Director of Social Programs at TECHO (2007-2008)

Program Manager, INFOCAP in slums (2006-2007)