His main area of current research is the discovery and characterization of exoplanets. He participates in the HATSouth survey, a global network of automated wide-field telescopes dedicated to discovering transiting exoplanets, and is the PUC principal investigator of ACCESS, the Arizona-CfA-Católica Exoplanet Spectroscopy Survey, which will provide the first homogeneous database of ground-based exoplanetary transmission spectra in the optical using the IMACS instrument in Chile.