Sociology of education, Comparative Higher Education Education Systems and Policies, Governance of Higher Education Institutions and Systems, Sociology of Culture and Modernization.

Teaching at the graduate level both at national and international higher education institutions.

Examples of courses taught:

"Comparative Higher Education Policy", Master in Public Policy, Instituto de Políticas Públicas, Universidad Diego Portales, Chile.

"Higher Education Policy", Ph.D. Program in Education, Universidad Diego Portales/Universidad Alberto Hurtado; MA in Public Policy and Management, Chile; Facultad de Ciencias e Ingeniería, Universidad de Chile; Universidad de la Frontera, Chile.

"Higher Education Policy", Master in Educational Leadership and Management, Universidad Diego Portales, Chile.

"Education and Society: Chile at the start of the XXI century" (lecture), School of Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.

"Higher Education Systems in Latin America", Ph.D. Program in Higher Education Management, Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico.

"Perspectives on educational policies in Latin America" (lecture), Ph.D. Program in Education and Society, Universidad de la Salle, Colombia.

"Iberoamerican higher education challenges", Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo, Santander, Spain.

"Higher Education Systems in Comparative Perspective", Department of Education Research, CINVESTAV, Mexico.

"Higher Education Challenges in the 21st Century" in various universities, e.g., Universidad de los Andes, Colombia; Universidad Uniminuto, Colombia; Universidad Católica de Uruguay; Universidad Católica de Perú.

Supervision of two Ph.D. students (at present): J. Gysling (thesis under final revision) and M. Alarcón (2014 to date), Ph.D. Program in Higher Education, Universidad Diego Portales/Universiteit Leiden.

Coordination of the seminars (3 each year) of the Ph.D. Program in Higher Education, UDP/Universiteit Leiden, where students present and discuss their Ph.D. thesis and research projects.

Member of the Ph.D. Examination Committee for D. Casanova, Ph.D. Program in Higher Education, UDP/Universiteit Leiden (2015).

Member of the Ph.D. Examination Committee for M. Claro, Faculty of Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (2014).

Member of Editorial Boards and/or Scientific Committees of Academic Journals, e.g.: Revista de Educación del Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (España), Journal of Higher Education, Educational Policy Analysis Archives/ Archivos Analíticos de Políticas Educativas,
Learning Research Communications, Revista Iberoamericana de Educación Superior (RIES) (México), Revista de la Educación Superior de la ANUIES (RESU) (México), Revista Mexicana de Investigación Educativa (México), Revista de Estudios Brasileños (Brasil-España), , Revista Magis (Colombia), Revista Estudios Públicos (Chile) Estudios Pedagógicos (Chile), Revista Latinoamericana de Educación Comparada (Argentina(, Revista Latinoamericana de Política y Administración en Educación (Argentina), Revista Páginas de Educación (Uruguay), Revista Anuario ININCO (Venezuela).

Active participation in the Chilean public education debate as regular columnist in two chilean newspapers.

Academic blog (personal) active since 2005.

Member of the Consultative Expert Committee on Education Decentralization, Chile, 2011.

Member of the Presidential Advisory Council on Quality in Education, Chile 2009.

Chairperson of the National Committee for the Modernization of Chilean Education, 1994.

Chairperson of the Presidential Commission for Chilean Higher Education Policy during the 1990s.

Technical support for the design and implementation of higher education policies for Chilean public bodies and agencies, 1990-2016.

Member of various boards and advisory committees of Chilean Foundations and NGOs, e.g:
Currently: Centro Educacional de Alta Tecnología; Centro de Estudios Públicos; Enseña Chile; Fundación Prohumana.
Formerly: Fundación Educación- Empres; Fundación La Fuente; Fundación Paz Ciudadana; Transparency International.

Consultancy services to national and international institutions (OECD, The World Bank, UNESCO, Inter-American Development Bank, Ministry of Economics, Ministry of Finance, among others) on higher education policy and educational reform.

OECD Higher Education Reviews in: Antioquia, Colombia; Colombia; Egypt, Mexico, and Spain.

World Bank consultancy missions in Argentina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Colombia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Malaysia, Republic of Korea, Singapur, Uzbekistan, Perú, Venezuela, Zambia.

Other consultancy missions and/or academic activities: Bolivia, China, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Ethiopia, France, Germany, Kenya, Netherland, Nicaragua, Panama, Sweden, Tanzania, Uruguay, Zimbabwe.