Robert Funk is professor in Political Science at the Public Affairs Institute from Universidad de Chile and director from the Studies Centre of Public Opinion at the same house of studies. He is also Director at studies centre Plural.

His areas of research have been related to different aspects of Chilean Politics, including Democratization, elite politics, and presidentialism. He is a non-resident investigator at the Center for strategic and International Studies in Washington DC, and during 2012 he was visiting fellow in the Center for Hemispheric Policy at the University of Miami.

His academic publications include diverse papers, including chapters in La Politica Chilena: entre la rutina, el mito y el modelo, edited by Manuel Alcantara Saez & Leticia M. Ruiz Rodriguez (Barcelona 2006), El gobierno de Ricardo Lagos: La nueva vía chilena hacia el socialismo, edited by Robert L. Funk (Santiago 2006), and The Bachelet Government, edited by Silvia Borzutzky and Gregory Weeks (University Press of Florida, 2010).

Professor Funk was elected President of the Chilean Asociation of Science and Politics during 2008-2009, and he is also a regular columnist at LaTercera.com and Revista Capital.