Jose Ali Porras-Salazar holds a two-year postdoctoral fellowship from the Berkeley Education Alliance for Research in Singapore (BEARS), a PhD in Architecture and Urbanism from the University of Bio-Bio, Chile, a Master's degree in Bioclimatic Architecture and Environment from the Polytechnic University of Madrid, and a Bachelor's degree in Architecture from the University of Costa Rica. He also holds two specializations: Energy Policies for Sustainable Development from the Technical University of Berlin and InWEnt, and Sustainable Development from INCAE Business School. He has been a visiting researcher at the Research Institute for Landscape, Architecture, and Built Environment (LAB) at the Catholic University of Louvain (UCLouvain), at the International Centre for Indoor Environment and Energy (ICIEE) at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) and the University of Bio-Bio, Chile. He has also worked as an architecture and design consultant through the firm Ecobalance Consultores. He is a full professor and researcher at the University of Costa Rica School of Architecture. His research focuses on studying the effects of the indoor environment of buildings on occupant comfort, health, performance, and learning, as well as its improvement through architectural design.