Resume (EN)

felipe.ruiz@ug.uchile.cl

Current positions

Project and Funding Director – Half-time
Nodo XXI Foundation 2019 — present

• An NGO whose aim is the social and political democratisation of Chilean society, with a view to building a fairer, freer and more egalitarian society.
• I am a member of the Executive Board of Nodo XXI and am responsible for the portfolio of international funding projects for research and advocacy, totalling approximately USD 50,000 per year.

Chief Executive Officer – Half-time
Estrategia Sur 2024 — present

• Consulting firm specialised in data science for strategic decision-making.
• Founding partner and as CEI I am responsible for general administrative and commercial management.

Education

Professional

Summer Institute in Computational Social Sciences. – Profesional Specialization
Institute of Advanced Social Studies, National University of San Martín 2026

AI Specialization – Profesional Specialization
Anthropic Academy 2026

Analysis and synthesis of scientific literature using generative artificial intelligence – Profesional Specialization
Bernardo O’Higgins University 2026

Mastering ChatGPT for Writing and Awarding Research Projects – Profesional Specialization
Diego Portales University 2025

Data Science – Profesional Specialization
John Hopkins University 2024

Programming & Data Science Instructor – Profesional Specialization
The Carpentries 2023

Program of Advanced Studies on Latin American Economies – Profesional Specialization
UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean 2023

Summer School in Computational Social Sciences, Methods for Analysing Multimedia Data – Profesional Specialization
GESIS Leibniz Institute for The Social Sciences 2019

Academic

PhD – Social Sciences
University of Chile 2026

• Thesis title: The capitalist class in Chile today (2000–2019). A study of the Luksic and Cencosud business groups
• National Research and Development Agency. Excellence PhD Scholarship (2021-2025).

MSc – Social Sciences
University of Chile 2019

• Thesis title: The entrepreneurship of the pension system in Chile (2000-2018)
• National Research and Development Agency. Excellence MSc Scholarship (2017-2019)

BSc – Sociology
University of Chile 2016

Professional Experience

Data Scientist

Freelance
Multiple clients2017 – Present

Providing data collection, pre-processing, statistical analysis and data visualization services to different clients of the private, scientific and academic sector. The last projects I was involved were:

• 2026-2026. Exchange rates and prospects for industrial development in Uruguay (2000 to the present). Cuesta Duarte, PIT-CNT Institute for Research and Training. Project funded by INEFOP. Digital report & Reproducible repository.
• 2026-2025. Computational systematisation of tax statistics by economic sector (2023-1998), based on annual reports from Argentina’s Federal Public Revenue Administration. Instituto de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento. PICT-2020-SERIE-A-00496. Reproducible repository
• 2024-2023. Validation of administrative records and statistical analysis: occupational structure of Chile’s Central Government. Law Faculty, Alberto Hurtado University. National Fund for Scientific and Technological Development (grant 1231868). Digital report.
• 2021-2022. Validation and preparation of databases in reproducible format. Faculty of Social Sciences, Diego Portales University. National Fund for Scientific and Technological Development (grant 1171072).

Academic & Professional Teaching

Lecturer & Teaching assistant
Different institutions2016 – Present

Teaching experience in social theory, social stratification, public policies, research methods, statistical analysis, data science, computational methods and applied artificial intelligence in different educational contexts: universities (grade and posgraduate courses), professional specializations and particular lessons. I have taught courses on:

• Latin American and Chilean Social Theory.
• Social stratification and social classes in Latin America.
• Analysis of Public Policy in the social and economic spheres,
• Foundations of the R programming language.
• Research methods in the field of social sciences, economics and humanities.
• Introduction to data driven research projects.
• Basic and advanced statistical methods in Social Sciences.
• Open Science and Free Software Tools for Quantitative Social Research.
• An Introduction to Computational Social Sciences.
• Artificial Intelligence applied to socio-economic research.

Work in progress

• 2027-The chilean New Left in Government: Limits, Challenges and Lessons. Santiago de Chile: Fondo de Cultura Económica. Co-author. Peer-reviewed book.
• 2027-Work and pensions: progress and challenges. In The chilean New Left in Government: Limits, Challenges and Lessons.. Santiago de Chile: Fondo de Cultura Económica. Peer-reviewed book.
• 2027-Leading productive development: two contrasting experiences. In The chilean New Left in Government: Limits, Challenges and Lessons.. Santiago de Chile: Fondo de Cultura Económica. Peer-reviewed book.
• 2026-Transformations in the reproduction of the population of Petorca (Chile) and the dispute over water during the expansion of the agricultural frontier (1990–2022). Draft accepted in Waterlat-Gobacit Network Working Papers. Co-authored with: Javiera Rojas Cifuentes.
• 2026-Descriptive Statistics for Research in Communication and Social Sciences. A Brief Introduction. In Research Methodology in Communication and Public Opinion.. Santiago de Chile: Ediciones Universidad Diego Portales. Peer-reviewed book.
• 2026-International expansion and wealth capture in Chilean economic groups during the 21st century. Draft in progress for Socioeconomic Review.

Recent publications

• 2025-Capitalist class structure in Chile (21st century): a descriptive and multivariate quantitative characterization. Forum for Social Economics, Special Issue on the Social Consequences of Development in Latin America in the 21st Century.
• 2025-Computational methodology for the analysis of financial information in XBRL format. An initial effort applied to economic groups in Chile. En Quantitative research: recent methodological strategies for doctoral theses in Economic and Social Sciences. Argentina: Publisher of the Faculty of Economic Sciences of the National University of Córdoba. Peer-reviewed book.
• 2024-Solidarity in the contributory pension pillar. A progressive approach to discussing pensions reform. Public Policy Report. Friedrich Ebert Stiftüng & Fundación Nodo XXI. Co-author.
• 2024-What to do about student loans and debts? Condone and restructuring to restore the promise of higher education. Public Policy Report. Santiago de Chile: Fundación Nodo XXI. Coauthor.
• 2024-Financiarización y poder empresarial en el sistema de pensiones chileno. In Formas y mecanismos de la dominación financiera en América Latina. México: Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Author. Peer-reviewed book.
• 2024-What interruptions to the (intellectual and political) project of Popular Unity are still relevant to the present?. In La Unidad Popular Interrumpida. Santiago: University of Chile, Social Sciences Faculty Editions.
• 2023-The job of public transport, ride-hailing, and delivery drivers: Conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic and implications for a post-pandemic future. Travel, Behaviour, and Society, vol. 31, pages 63-77. Coauthor.
• 2021-Financialization and the construction of peripheral business power in the Chilean pension system. In Dependent Capitalisms in Contemporary Latin America and Europe. Palgrave Macmillan. Author. Peer-reviewed book.
• 2019-Descriptive Statistical Methods for Social Sciences Using Rstudio. 2nd Edition. Department of Sociology, University of Chile. Interactive online manual. Co-author.