Carlos graduated from Hamilton College in 2010 where he majored in chemical physics. For graduate studies, he joined the laboratory of Dr. Thomas Sakmar at the Rockefeller University as part of the tri-institutional training program in chemical biology. To support his research efforts, Carlos was awarded the NSF graduate research fellowship in 2012 and received his Ph.D. in 2017. He joined Weill Cornell Medicine as a medical student in 2020. He is interested in addiction psychiatry and improving health care access to underserved communities.