Andrés Escala Ph.D. in Astrophysics from Yale University and Dr. en Cs. from Universidad de Chile. Afterwards he held a Postdoctoral position at Universidad de Chile and a Research Associate position at Stanford University. Since July 2009. Dr. Escala works as a Professor at the Astronomy Department at Universidad de Chile. Currently, he is an Associate Professor (2015 to date).

Along with a strong research program focused on (small scale) Structure Formation (see the section above), since the beginning of his position at Universidad de Chile, Dr. Escala has been particularly active in administrative instances, those includes been (between 2015 and 2020) vice-Director and the Director at the Department of Astronomy, as well as director of the Franco-Chilean Lab for Astronomy (UMI, CNRS, France).