Professor of Zoology since 2006 at the School of Biology, University of Costa Rica. Since 2009, he has been a researcher at CIMAR in the area of ​​beach, rocky coast, and seabed ecology. Since 2013, he has been the curator of polychaetes and sipunculids at the Museum of Zoology. He holds a PhD in Organism and Ecosystem Ecology from the University of Vigo, Spain. He researches marine invertebrate biodiversity and their relationship with the environment in sedimentary and rocky seabeds. He also uses morphological and genetic tools to identify marine invertebrates from the macrofauna and meiofauna.