Leandro is a Founding Partner and Academic & Research Director at Atentamente. He holds an M.S. and is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Educational Psychology from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Leandro also holds a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in Physics from the National Autonomous University of Mexico. He is a full-time professor at the Academy of Physics of the Autonomous University of Mexico City.

For more than 20 years, Leandro has been dedicated to social-emotional education, specializing in methodologies for the regulation of attention, emotions, and the strengthening of ethics and prosocial behaviors. At AtentaMente, he leads curriculum development, professional training, and educational and technological innovation. In addition, he spearheads scientific research on AtentaMente’s socio-emotional learning programs in collaboration with the Center for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.