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Sociologist, Master in Sociology, and PhD (c) in Sociology from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. He is currently an Assistant Professor at Universidad Central de Chile and a researcher at the Center for Research in Economy and Society. In addition, he serves as the Executive Director of the Public Conversation Laboratory at the same institution. On the one hand, his work focuses on economic sociology, studying the legitimacy of indebtedness and loans with financial institutions. On the other hand, he conducts applied research in the field of public opinion and social media platforms. He specializes in quantitative methods and causal inference analysis, as well as computational methods for the social sciences, through the production, organization, and reporting of data available on the internet.

Research Interests

Financialization of everyday life; Public opinion and social media; Quantitative and digital methods

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