Hernán is a Forestry Engineer from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, with a diploma in Forest and Land Management and a specialization in wildlife. He has extensive field experience across Chilean Patagonia, working with methodologies such as camera trapping, transect surveys, count points, live-capture trapping, and indirect tracking to study species including huemul deer, puma, and other native carnivores. As part of Fundación Rewilding Chile, he led fauna monitoring and field team coordination for the Corredor Nacional del Huemul in northern Patagonia, and previously worked as a wildlife consultant on threats to carnivores and guanacos in the Lago Peñuelas National Reserve. His undergraduate thesis examined the impact of livestock grazing on huemul habitat use in the Futaleufú National Reserve. He has also taught Wildlife Biology and Management and Veterinary Ecology at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, for forestry and veterinary medicine students. His interests include wildlife conservation, human-wildlife coexistence, and field research methods for monitoring threatened species across Patagonian ecosystems.