Raúl teaches undergraduate courses in general chemistry and organic chemistry. His teaching approach focuses on making students aware of their heterogeneity of thinking, leveraging students’ cultural practices, and promoting equity and social justice through chemistry teaching. Raúl’s research focuses on exploring both student learning and teaching practices employing sociocultural approaches. He is interested in culturally relevant pedagogy, formative assessment, conceptual profile theory, and chemistry capital. Raúl's work has revealed the power of developing students’ multiple ways of thinking, doing, and being to disrupt settled forms of teaching and learning chemistry.

Raúl enjoys cooking Mexican-Korean fusion cuisine in his free time, reading Dostoyevsky and José Agustin novels, and playing video games.