Francisco is an architectural, construction, and art historian specialized in the Colonial Andes. His research focuses on the intersection of builders' agency, construction techniques, materiality, and the natural environment. He successfully completed his PhD at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris and the University of Granada in 2022. He has been a Visiting Scholar at the Habitat Research Institute-University of San Francisco Xavier in Bolivia in 2023. Francisco has held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Slicher van Bath de Jong Foundation-CEDLA/University of Amsterdam from 2022 to 2023. Additionally, he was recently awarded the Thoma Foundation Arts of Spanish Americas Research & Travel Grant for the period of 2023–2024. Currently, Francisco is actively engaged as a research associate at both the French Institute of Andean Studies in Peru and the Center for Historical Studies at Bernardo O'Higgins University in Chile.