Director of the Fish Physiology Laboratory, principal investigator of the “Millennium Institute Biodiversity of Antarctic and Subantarctic Ecosystems, BASE” and Full Academician of the Institute of Marine and Limnological Sciences of the Austral University of Chile. Marine Biologist from the Austral University of Chile, European doctor in Marine Sciences from the University of Cadiz, Spain, he did his postdoctoral studies at the U.S. Geological Survey, S.O. Conte Anadromous Fish Research Center, United States.