PhD in Philosophy from the University of Vienna, Austria. He was professor in the Department of Anthropology, History, and Humanities, FLACSO Ecuador, from 2011 to 2017. He currently teaches at the Ravensburg-Weingarten University of Applied Sciences, in Germany, and is a visiting lecturer at FLACSO Ecuador. His research interests are intercultural philosophy, environmental ethics, and social theory. Recent publications include: Nietzsche, Zaratustra y subjetividad en los Andes, 2019 in Revista Ideas y Valores; La filosofía en Ecuador entre 1930 y 1990, 2018 published in SOLAR Revista de Filosofía Iberoamericana; El Dionisos de Nietzshe en América Latina (1900-1925), 2018 published in Areté Revista de Filosofía; and Der Űbergang von ‘Sumak Kawsay’ zum neoextraktivistischen ‘Buen Vivir’, published by Campus Verlag in Umwelt und Entwicklung in globaler Perspektive (2017), edited by Stefan Peters and Hans-Jürgen Burchardt.