"He directs the Department of Communication of the Ibero-American University, is a member of the National System of Researchers (N-II), Vice President of the Executive Committee of the UNESCO Chairs in Communication, is an academic advisor to the Professional Electoral Service of the National Electoral Institute (INE ) from Mexico and a regular scholar at the International Media Literacy Seminar in Salzburg, Austria.

He has a doctorate in Political Science from the European University Institute of Florence, Italy, and a Master in Latin American Studies from the University of Cambridge. His research areas: political communication; media-political regime relations; socio-digital networks and civic participation; and media content and political attitudes. On these subjects he has several books, chapters, articles and conferences. "