Faculty member of the Interdisciplinary Program in Religious Studies. His primary area of interest is the relationship between art and the experience of the sacred. He studied architecture for four years, during which time he developed a passion for writing, drawing, and printmaking. He lived in Barcelona for five years, where he pursued studies in Classical Philology and Comparative Literature. He then lived in Athens for nearly ten years, where he discovered the Byzantine icon tradition as a practice that synthesized the different facets of his personal quest.

He trained as an iconographer at the Eikonourgía School of Iconography in Athens, under the guidance of the Greek painter and theologian Giorgos Kordis. During that time, he also earned a Master’s degree in Theology from the University of Athens. After completing his PhD on icon painting in modern Greece, he returned to Chile, where he began developing a line of research on the Latin American cult image, a topic on which he completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Faculty of Theology of the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina.

His research and teaching have focused on the epistemological and sacramental role of art within the context of Christianity, from both theoretical and practical perspectives, with a special emphasis on Eastern and Latin American Christianity. He has developed research (Fondecyt) and research-creation (VRI Pastoral) projects on these topics. Among other positions, he has served as Vice Dean of the Faculty of Theology and as a member of the Philosophy Study Group at ANID (National Agency for Research and Development).