Mechanical engineer with a Master in Development and Rural Innovation from Wageningen University. He is currently a Ph.D. Candidate in Social Sciences at the same university with the project: Post insurgency in Colombia: local agency, politics and reincorporation of FARC-EP. His research interests are Rural Sociology; Cooperatives and Solidarity Economy; Demobilization, Disarmament and Reintegration (DDR); Social Movements, Militant Ethnography; and the use of video in Social Sciences.