He graduated with an Industrial Engineering from the USM and he earned his Msc and Ph.D. in Fluid Mechanics, Energy and Combustion at University of Poitiers, France. He worked as a Research Fellow at the BRE Centre for Fire Safety Engineering at the University of Edinburgh, UK and from 2007 a Maître des Conférences at Aix-Marseille Université, France. His research interests include, heat and mass transfer processes in combustion, soot production, ignition and flame propagation, microgravity and smouldering combustion. These activities are carried out in the EC2G Group (www.usm.ec2g.cl).