His areas of interest are global political economy, critical social theory, and development studies. He is the author of the books Planetary Mine: Territories of Extraction Under Late Capitalism (Verso, 2020), and Gobernar la utopía: sobre la formación popular (Caja Negra Editora, 2021).

His research has been published in various international academic journals, as well as in general media. He is currently developing a long-term project on the globalized agri-food system in the context of the current climate emergency, as well as the intellectual history of economic planning during the 1960s and 1970s in Latin America.

He was previously a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Urban Theory Lab, Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.

He completed his PhD in Political Science at the University of Manchester, UK, in 2015, with a thesis that addressed the contested geographies of planetary urbanization in a mining and energy district of northern Chile. His research has been supported by grants and fellowships from the Social Science Research Council, the Urban Studies Foundation, the National Commission for Scientific and Technological Research of Chile, and the School of Social Sciences of the University of Manchester. As a PhD student at the University of Manchester, he received the Manchester Doctoral College 2015 Excellence Award for best outstanding output.