He received the Ph.D. in Automatic Control from the University Claude Bernard-Lyon 1 (Lyon, France) in 2012, the Ph.D. in electrical engineering, M.Sc. in electrical engineering and professional title in electronic engineering from the University of Concepción (Concepción, Chile) in 2012, 2009 and 2006, respectively. He held a post-doctoral research position at the FEMTO-ST research institute (Besançon, France) from 2012 to 2013. His research interests include port-Hamiltonian systems, modelling and control of multi-physical systems and control of partial differential equations with application to micro-mechatronic and thermodynamic systems. He is member of the IFAC technical committee on non-linear control systems (TC2.3) since September 2014.