Nelson graduated from the Universidad de Chile (Santiago de Chile) with a B.A. in History and an M.A. in Social Sciences with a specialization in Sociology of Modernization. His first research projects were related to Pentecostal communities in an urban context and the emergence of New Religious Movement in Chile. Because of his experience in religious studies, Nelson has participated as a lecturer in Center of Jewish Studies at Universidad de Chile since 2012. Currently, he is an instructor at the same university. He is interested in the relationship between religion and politics in Latin America, paying attention to the presence of religious agents and discourses in the public space in a neoliberal context. Nelson has the support of a Fulbright scholarship to complete his studies at UF.