ACADEMIC & RESEARCH POSITIONS:
2016– Frost Professor, College of Arts, Sciences, & Education (CASE), School of Education and Human Development, CRSP, FIU
2024– Affiliate Research Professor, Institute of Applied Behavioral Sciences, Endicott College
2010–2023– Affiliated Professor, Fielding Graduate University, Santa Barbara. External Examiner of Dissertations.
2006–2016 Professor, College of Education (COE), FIU
2004–2006 Professor, College of Education, FIU
1998–2004 Associate Professor, Department of Educational Psychology & Special Education, Tenured on July 1998, FIU
2008–2015 Adjunct Research Professor, University of Miami (UM), (TRI).
2005–2010 Affiliate Professor, Robert R. Stempel School of Public Health, FIU
1997–2007 Affiliate Professor, Department of Psychology, FIU
1994–1998 Assistant Professor, College of Education, FIU
1992–1994 Associate Research Fellow, Post-Doctoral at the University of Miami, Medical School, Pediatrics, Touch Research Institute (TRI).
VISITING TEACHING & RESEARCH POSITIONS:
2012 summer Visiting Professor, University of Oviedo, Spain. Master Program in Behavior Analysis Delivered courses on child development.
2011–2013 Visiting Professor, University of Córdoba, Spain. Master Program in Psychology.
2011–2017 Affiliated Supervisor, Centro Almudaris, Córdoba, Spain. Conducted and supervised behavior-analytic interventions with young children with autism spectrum disorders
2008, 2009 Centro Almudaris, Córdoba, Spain. Supervised intervention with young children with autism and University of Cordoba, Spain.
2008, summer Visiting Professor, University of Nevada, Reno. Taught an advanced (PSY756) graduate seminar on “Child Development and Behavior Analysis”.
2006, summer Visiting Professor, University of Lille, France. Delivered a colloquium on research exploring “Stimulus equivalence with infants.”.
2006, summer Centro Almudaris, Córdoba, Spain. Developed and supervised intervention with young children with autism
2005, summer Universidad de Oviedo, Spain. Taught a seminar on “Child Learning and Development”.
2004, summer University of Sao Carlos, Sao Carlos, Brazil. Served as reviewer and advisor of four dissertations and one post-doctorate fellowship.
2003, summer Universidad de Oviedo, Spain. Taught undergraduate seminar on “Child Development”.
2002, summer National University of Ireland, Maynooth. Developed and conducted an experiment on “Instructional control and transformation of function across cultures as a function of subjects’ verbal and spatial abilities.”
2001, summer Universidad de Oviedo, Spain. Taught an undergraduate seminar in “Child Development”.
2001, summer Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa, México. Taught a graduate seminar on “Infant Development and Social Learning Processes.”.
2001, spring Instituto Tecnológico de Sonora, Ciudad Obregón, México. Taught graduate workshop on “Infant Learning and Development”.
2000, summer Universidad de Oviedo, Spain. Taught an undergraduate seminar in “Child Development”.
1999, summer Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa, México. Taught graduate seminar on infant development; and on taxonomy of rule and their correspondence to rule-governed behavior.
1998, fall University of Almería, Andalucía, Spain. Taught an advanced graduate seminar for a week on “Infant social learning: A behavior-analytic approach.”
1998, summer Universidad Veracruzana, Veracruz, Xalapa, México. Instituto de Psicología Applicada a la Educación. Chaired 3 Master Theses-research projects and their successful defense and delivered a four-week seminar on “Behavior Analysis of Early Child Development.”
1997, summer Universidad de Sevilla, Spain. Deliver a workshop and wrote two theoretical papers on “Taxonomy of rules and rule-governed behavior” in collaboration with the faculty of the Department of Psychology at this University.
1997, summer University of Nevada, Reno. Taught a graduate seminar on child development.
1995, summer Universidad de Guadalajara, Jalisco, México. Centro de Estudios e Investigaciones Psicológicas. Delivered a seminar and published in a special issue of Journal for Experimental Analysis of Behavior (JEAB).