He holds a PhD in Economics and Business from Aarhus University (2015). During 2013, Juan Carlos visited the Department of Economics at University of Pennsylvania and held a PhD internship position at the Research Unit of Norges Bank (Central Bank of Norway). In 2015, he also visited the Department of Economics at BI Norwegian Business School. His main research interests are monetary policy, macroeconometrics and macrofinance, with particular focus on the solution, estimation and statistical evaluation of DSGE models both in discrete and continuous time.