Detailed Work History

There might be some naming convention differences between my official CV and this section. That is just a stylistic choice.

Personal Information


Topics of Expertise

Programming · Interdisciplinary research · Information retrieval · Open Science · Computational social science · Academic literature analysis · Bibliometric analysis · Networks analysis · Data visualization · Machine learning · Natural language processing · Data storytelling · User interface · User experience · Relational databases · Genetics · Biomolecular dynamics


Programming Languages

  • Advanced: Python, SPARQL, LaTeX, SQL, XML, BASH
  • Basic: Java, R, HTML, JavaScript

Natural Languages

  • Spanish: Native
  • English: Expert
  • Dutch: B1

Education

PhD in Scientometrics

Leiden University, The Netherlands — 2018–2025 (to be defended 21 January 2026)

  • Dissertation: Science maps for information retrieval
  • Supervisors: Ludo Waltman, Nees Jan van Eck, Suzan Verberne

BSc/MSc in Biochemistry, Cum laude

Andrés Bello National University, Chile — 2008–2016

  • Dissertation: Identification of enzyme superfamilies significantly mutated in cancer and characterization of their analogous mutations
  • Supervisor: Daniel Eduardo Almonacid

Work Experience

Data Scientist — Multiversatory

Leiden University — 2025–ongoing

Project: Multiversatory

Supporting the emerging Multiversatory project at CWTS by exploring alternative perspectives in research evaluation, including:

  • Developing metrics for the workforce of universities
  • Monitoring the FAIRification of open science databases in Google BigQuery
  • Exploring metadata structures and schema interoperability for open datasets

Social Media Analyst — UnMiSSeD

Fondazione Bruno Kessler and Leiden University — 2024–2025

Project: European Media and Information Fund — Understanding Misinformation and Science in Societal Debates (UnMiSSeD)

Creating project deliverables using a dataset of tweets, including:

  • An online dashboard to explore the data
  • A paper summarizing the most important patterns of the dataset

Social Media Analyst — Scientific Communication

Delft University of Technology and Leiden University — 2021

Project: TU Delft COVID-19 Response Fund — Scientific Communication in Times of Corona Virus

Supporting research tasks, including:

  • Comparing clusters in citation networks with clusters in co-Tweetation networks of academic documents
  • Sentiment analysis of Twitter users sharing academic documents

Scientometric Analyst — CWTS B.V.

CWTS B.V., Leiden University — 2019–2021

Supporting consultancy requests and the following projects:

Machine Learning Researcher — WriteWise

WriteWise — 2017–2018

Innovating and implementing functionalities for academic writing assistance software, including:

  • Training machine learning classifiers of impactful academic documents
  • Extracting NLP features from the classifiers

Biological Networks Researcher — Fondecyt

Andrés Bello National University — 2013–2016

Project: Fondecyt no. 11130578 — Assessing the Molecular and Biological Impact of Cancer Mutations in Enzyme Superfamilies Using Protein and Chemical Similarity Networks

Functional predictions of genes inferred from genetic similarity networks, including:

  • Implementing the inference methodology on the networks
  • Finding cases of biological significance

Teaching

Teacher Assistant — Data Science

Leiden University — 2021–ongoing | Master students

Courses: Information retrieval · Text Mining · Data science · Essentials of machine learning · Artificial intelligence for business · Urban computing · Algorithms and Data structures

Workshop Lecturer — Python

Leiden University — 2020 | Beginners

Courses: Python for social scientists

Private Tutor

Santiago, Chile — 2008–2016 | High school and bachelor students

Courses: Math · Chemistry · Biology


Academic Service

Conference Workshop Organizer — NetSci

Maastricht University — 2025

Conference: International School and Conference on Network Science (NetSci 2025) Workshop: Networks in Science of Science

Evaluating the workshop program and assisting on events.

Blog Editor — Leiden Madtrics

Leiden University — 2019–2021

Leiden Madtrics — reviewing and approving blog submissions.


Peer Reviews

JournalReviews
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications3
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology3
Quantitative Science Studies4
Scientometrics1
ACM Transactions on Information Systems1
International Journal of Data Science and Analytics5
International Conference on Information Management and Big Data1
Journal of Computational Social Science2
EPJ Data Science1

Conferences

ConferenceYear
European Conference on Information Retrieval / International Workshop on Scholarly Information Access2026
Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval Workshop2025
Government Policies and Scientific Collaboration Symposium2025
International Conference on Computational Social Science2025
Conference on Complex Systems Science2025
Solid International Symposium / Una Europa FAIR Data Hackathon and Conference2025
European Conference on Information Retrieval / International Workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval2024
Glasgow Machine Learning in Science Conference2024
Meeting of Computational Linguistics in The Netherlands2024
International Conference on Science and Technology Indicators2023
European Conference on Information Retrieval / International Workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval2020
European Conference on Information Retrieval / International Workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval2019
International Conference on Science and Technology Indicators2018
Colombian Congress of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology / Iberoamerican Society of Bioinformatics2017
Annual Reunion of the Chilean Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology2016
(Chilean) National Congress of Biochemistry Students2015
International Congress of Biochemistry Students / (Chilean) National Congress of Biochemistry Students2015
International Society for Computational Biology – Latin America / X-meeting / Brazilian Symposium on Bioinformatics / Iberoamerican Society of Bioinformatics2014