Luis Rubén González Márquez is a PhD candidate in Sociology at the University of California, Merced. He earned a B.A. in History from the University of El Salvador and masters’ degrees in Sociology from the Latin American Faculty of Social Science in Ecuador and the University of California, Merced. Luis Rubén was awarded with a Fulbright-LASPAU scholarship for his graduate studies in 2019-2021. He also received a Dissertation Improvement Award Grant from the American Sociological Association and the National Science Foundation (ASA-DDRIG) and a Dissertation Fellowship from the Institute of Global Conflict and Cooperation from the University of California (UC-IGCC), for 2023-2024. His dissertation examines the escalation of conflicts in the extraction of renewable energies, based in a comparative-historical analysis of hydroelectric dam large projects in Central America. Previously, Luis Rubén has conducted research on labor and popular mobilization in El Salvador.