Dr. Tristano Volpato studied a degree in sociology of cultural processes, at the Università degli Studi di Trento, Trento, Italy; a master's degree in social sciences, at the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences, in Mexico City; and a PHD in general sociology at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany.

Since the beginning of his academic career, he studied identity and cultural processes. In particular, his studies are distributed between the sociological theory, social research methodology and political philosophy.

As a university professor of qualitative research methodology, legal sociology and political sciences, he has collaborated with international universities, such as the Università degli Studi di Verona, the Università degli Studi di Trieste, the Università degli Studi di Trento, in Italy, and the Pontifical University of Ecuador, in Quito, Ecuador.

In Mexico he has served as a professor at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Iztapalapa Campus and at the Pontifical University of Mexico, participating, as a researcher, in the development of national projects on identity, discrimination, indigenism, Africanness, and human rights in the Department of Applied Research and Opinion of the Legal Research Institute of the National Autonomous University of Mexico. He has also served as a professor at the Intercontinental University, and as director of the Scholas Social project at the Pontifical University of Mexico, in Mexico City.

He is currently an associate professor in the Department of Sociology, at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, in Mexico CIty.

He is the author of theoretical-empirical research that focuses on multiculturalism, the identity negotiation process, and blackness. Among his most recent works, the articles stand out: Una aproximación teórica al concepto de democracia para el estudio del caso mexicano; ¿Supervivencia o transculturación? Dinámicas histórico-sociales de la identidad kikapú, en Coahuila, México; ¡Salam alaikum, alaikum salam!, dijo el brujo; El concepto de ‘negro’ como institucionalización del reconocimiento minoritario en México: una aproximación metodológica; Mazunte: un esempio di comunicazione interculturale nel sud-ovest del Pacifico messicano; Travisamento culturale o egemonia? Il Codice Magliabechiano e altre fonti storiche come modello interpretativo. Y las monografías Social Exclusion and the Negotiation of Afro Mexican Identity in the Costa Chica of Oaxaca, Mexico; Evolución y praxis del multiculturalismo cubano. Procesos de auto determinación minoritaria entre ajiaco y diversidad; Del negro mexicano y su identidad. Una propuesta teórico-metodológica para el reconocimiento; Memorias (2018-2020). Scholas-Social UPM (coord.); Alegoría de la raza. Un estudio de la diversidad para una teoría de las identidades (coord.); El Códice Magliabechiano entre hegemonía y memoria colectiva. Una aproximación periférica a su significado.