He obtained a PhD in Sustainability, Technology and Humanism (Technical University of Catalonia, Spain). His three areas of interest are: (1) sustainability science (epistemological and methodological principles for sustainability research), (2) microbiology from a sustainability approach (the understanding of problems related to microbial processes from a sustainability perspective), and (3) governance for social-ecological resilience (institutional arrangements that enable systems to be social-ecological resilient). Regarding the latter, he has worked on the subject of sustainability of malaria control policies. He will be working on a characterization of institutional problems related to mining control and, particularly, the institutional designs that hamper an adaptive governance of mining.