• programming and programming languages: design, semantics, implementation, analysis
• software modularity and adaptability
• objects, functions, aspects, reflection, meta-programming, concurrency, distribution, mobility, etc. etc.
• practice of programming: tool support, debugging, code mining, user experiments

Administration

• Head of the Graduate Committee (2012-)
• Elected Member of the Department Council (2012-)
• Member of the Department Academic Evaluation Committee (2011-)
• Library Coordinator (2009-)
• Substitute Member of the Department Council (2007-2008)

Editorial Boards, Committees, Evaluations

• Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
• Member of the Steering Committee of the Aspect-Oriented Software Assocation
• Editor-in-Chief of the LNCS Transactions on AOSD, Springer-Verlag
• Reviewer for the following journals: IEEE Software, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Journal of Functional Programming (Cambridge), Software - Practice and Experience (Wiley), Science of Computer Programming (Elsevier), Theoretical Informatics and Applications (RAIRO, EDP Sciences)
• External Reviewer for POPL 2014, PEPM 2008, PLDI 2007
• Evaluator for the following funding agencies: FONDECYT Regular National Research Competition, Chile (2007), Swiss National Science Foundation, Switzerland (2007, 2009), Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, Holland (2010), Israel Science Foundation (2013)
• Member of the Engineering Study Group (Ingeniería 2) of CONICYT, Chile (2011-2012).

Research Projects

• INRIA Équipe Associée REAL [2013-2015/lead]
• FONDECYT Project 1110051 - Modular and Adaptable Software without Losing Control [2011-2014/lead]
• INRIA Équipe Associée RAPIDS [2010-2012/lead]
• FONDECYT Project 1090083 - Engineering and Composition of Domain-Specific Aspect Languages [2009-2012/researcher]
• STIC AmSud Project CoReA: Comprehension and Remodularization of Applications based on Aspects, Classboxes and Traits (09STIC02) [2009-2010/researcher]
• INRIA-CONICYT Project CORDIAL [2008-2009/lead]
• FONDECYT Project 11060493 - Modularization and Adaptation of Complex and Dynamic Software Systems [Oct.2006-Oct.2009/lead]
• Latin American Network on Aspect-Oriented Software Development [2007-2009/lead]
• Bilateral collaboration with the PROG lab of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel: ORION (Open Reflective Infrastructure for Open Networks) [2006-2007/lead]
• Center for Web Research (CWR) [PhD student 2002-2004, Postdoc 2005-2006, Young Researcher 2006-2007]
• European Network of Excellence CoreGRID (WP3) [2005-2007/researcher]
• Chile-Korea ITCC Project AOP for the Grid [2004-2006/lead]
• INRIA-CONICYT Project OSCAR [2004-2006/researcher]
• INRIA-CONICYT Project ProXiMoS [2002-2003/researcher]

Program Committee Chair

• 11th International Conference on Aspect-Oriented Software Development (AOSD 2012)
• 7th International Symposium on Software Composition 2008 (SC 2008) at ETAPS 2008
• XXVIth International Conference of the Chilean Computer Science Society (SCCC 2007)
• 1st Latin American Workshop on Aspect-Oriented Software Development (LA-WASP.07)

Program Committee Member

• 24th European Symposium on Programming (ESOP 2015)
• 13th International Conference on Generative Programming: Concepts & Experiences (GPCE 2014)
• 20th International Workshop on Foundations of Object-Oriented Languages (FOOL 2013)
• 27th ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA 2012)
• ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Scheme and Functional Programming (SFP 2012)
• 11th Workshop on the Foundations of Aspect-Oriented Languages (FOAL 2012)
• ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2012), Track on (Programming for Separation of Concerns)
• 10th ACM International Conference on Generative Programming and Component Engineering (GPCE 2011)
• 10th ACM International Conference on Aspect-Oriented Software Development (AOSD 2011)
• 6th ACM Dynamic Languages Symposium (DLS 2010)
• 24th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2010)
• 9th Workshop on the Foundations of Aspect-Oriented Languages (FOAL 2010)
• 9th ACM International Conference on Aspect-Oriented Software Development (AOSD 2010)
• ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2010), Track on (Programming for Separation of Concerns)
• 3rd Latin American Workshop on Aspect-Oriented Software Development (LA-WASP.09)
• Workshop on Context-Aware Software Technology and Applications (CASTA 2009), co-located with ESEC/FSE 2009
• Workshop on Context-Oriented Programming (COP 2009), co-located with ECOOP 2009
• Workshop on Reflection, AOP and Meta-Data for Software Evolution (RAM-SE), co-located with ECOOP 2009
• IFIP International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems (DAIS 2009)
• 47th International Conference on Objects, Models, Components and Patterns (TOOLS-EUROPE 2009)
• 13th Brazilian Symposium on Programming Languages (SBLP 2009)
• 8th International Conference on Software Composition (SC 2009)
• ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2009), Track on Programming for Separation of Concerns
• 5th International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems (ICAS 2009)
• XXVIIth International Conference of the Chilean Computer Science Society (SCCC 2008)
• 2nd Latin American Workshop on Aspect-Oriented Software Development (LA-WASP.08)
• 12th Brazilian Symposium on Programming Languages (SBLP 2008)
• IFIP International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems (DAIS 2008)
• ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2008), Track on Programming Languages, and Track on Programming for Separation of Concerns
• International Conference on Trustworthy Global Computing (TGC 2007)
• International Workshop on Software Professional Engineering Education (SPEED 2007)
• IFIP International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems (DAIS 2007)
• International Symposium on Software Composition (SC 2007)
• International Workshop on Virtual Machines and Intermediate Languages for Emerging Modularization Mechanisms (VMIL 2007)
• ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2007), Track on Programming for Separation of Concerns
• Brazilian Workshop on Aspect-Oriented Software Development (WASP 2006)
• NODe 2006 - Objects, Aspects, Services, the Web
• ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2006), Track on Programming for Separation of Concerns

Awards & Distinctions

• Invited speaker at the 4th International Workshop on Variability & Composition (VariComp 2013)
• Invited speaker at the 11th International Conference on Generative Programming and Component Engineering (GPCE 2012)
• Best professor award (for undergrad teaching), Computer Science Dept, University of Chile, 2011
• Best paper award MSR 2011
• Invited speaker at the 4th Latin American AOSD Workshop (LA-WASP 2010)
• Best paper award AOSD 2010
• Best paper award SBLP 2008
• Best paper award DAIS 2006
• Invited speaker at the 25th International Conference of the Chilean Computer Science Society (SCCC 2005)