(PhD student, Social Sciences and Humanities, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, M.A, Political Science, B.A., Education Sciences, Universidad de la República, Uruguay; Professor of Philosophy, the Instituto de Profesores Artigas).

He is a full-time professor in the Historical Research Area of the University's General Archive and in the Department of History and Philosophy of Education in the Faculty of Humanities at Udelar. D’Avenia teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on the history of education, the history of universities, the intellectual history of Latin America, and the uses of archives.

His doctoral project, co-directed by Alejandro Blanco and Vania Markarian, focuses on the construction of education as a sociological phenomenon, a contemporary effort in the disciplinary institutionalization of sociology and the rise of educational planning in the context of the Cold War. He has participated in research projects on the history of education, the history of universities, and the history of the social sciences. For 2025-2026, he has been working in collaboration with Vania Markarian on the research project “Social sciences and the publishing world in Uruguay in the long 1960s”; he is a member of the National System of Researchers of Uruguay.