He also participates in the Center for Biotechnology and Bioengineering (CeBiB) and the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD)..
He obtained his PhD at the University of Chile in 1998 under the supervision of Ricardo Baeza-Yates with the thesis Approximate Text Searching,[2] then worked as a post-doctoral researcher with Esko Ukkonen and Maxime Crochemore.
He studied for his Licenciate in Informatics (1986–1993) (5 years plus thesis), at the Faculty of Exact Sciences, Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP, Argentina).
His thesis was: “MediaCore: A Multimedia Interface Composition Toolkit”, Advisor: Prof. Jorge Sanz (IBM Argentina and Almaden Research Center).
Navarro organized the 13th International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval (SPIRE 2001), with the support of Ricardo Baeza-Yates.