México City 1976. B.A. in Philosophy and Master in Mesoamerican Studies from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). Master in Humanities (specializing in Moral and Political Philosophy) from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM-Iztapalapa). Ph.D in Philosophy from Leiden University, the Netherlands. His doctoral dissertation: “Tlamatiliztli: The wisdom of the Nahua people. Intercultural philosophy and land rights,” has been published by Leiden University Press. He did postdoctoral stays at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada, in the Department of History and at the Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas “Luis Villoro” of the Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo. During the 2024-2025 academic year he will be a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University at the Center for the Study of World Religions (CSWR).  

He taught undergraduate courses at the Faculty of Philosophy at UNAM, where he taught “Problems of Philosophy in Mexico and Latin America” and “Problems of Philosophy of History and Social Sciences” from 2013 to 2016. In 2015, he awarded the Coimbra Group Fellowship for young professors and researchers from Latin American universities.

He is a Research Associate of the Philosophy and Psychedelics Research Group at the University of Exeter, UK, a member of the Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant Medicines, and a founding member of Via Synapsis, an academic society focused on organizing the University Congress on Psychoactive Substances at UNAM since 2014.