His research focuses on self-regulated learning, teacher self-regulation, motivation and educational psychology. His main line of research deals with motivation, emotion and self-regulation in educational contexts, seeking to contribute to the transformation processes inherent to education. Part of the work is oriented towards the multimodal assessment of self-regulated learning in students at different educational levels, using questionnaires, microanalysis interviews, think-aloud protocols and task traces. Other projects advance knowledge of teacher self-regulation by looking at the more specific dimensions of the professional role. Other work focuses on the teaching of self-regulation in classrooms in domains such as mathematics, social sciences and philosophy. He leads the MACE group, which brings an interdisciplinary and applied approach to research, and is part of the international research team "Thymós".

Member of the National System of Researchers in Uruguay. PhD in Psychology from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Master in Cognitive Psychology and Learning, FLACSO Argentina. He graduated as a psychologist and postgraduate in Educational Psychology at the Catholic University of Uruguay (UCU). He is Associate Professor. He is responsible for undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Educational Psychology, Self-regulation and Learning, Research Methodology. He has proposed courses in universities in Chile, Peru and Bolivia. In his line of research on "Motivation, emotion and self-regulation in educational contexts" he has directed more than 60 theses. He coordinates the MACE group and participates in the international research group "Thymós". He received the Uruguayan Society of Psychology award for consolidated researchers. He was director of the "Laboratory of support for the formulation of educational research projects", in the Fondo Sectorial de Educación (INEEd-ANII). He directed the Master in Educational Psychology and the Department of Education at UCU.