He is an Assistant Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Alicante, where he teaches anthropology-related subjects across various degrees. His main research interests are conflict, ethnic conflict, and political violence. He has conducted fieldwork in Northern Ireland, the Philippines, Syria, Sahrawi refugee camps, and Spain.

He earned a BA in Social and Cultural Anthropology from Queen's University of Belfast, where he also completed a MA in Ethnic Conflict and Deeply Divided Societies. He completed his PhD at the Autonomous University of Madrid, with a thesis focused on the first fifteen months of the Syrian conflict and the shaping of the civil war. in addition, he recently completed a diploma at the Complutense University of Madrid focusing on the critical analysis of capitalism from a Marxist perspective.

He speaks five languages: Spanish, Catalan-Valencian, English, French, and Arabic. He is a member of several professional associations and research groups. His theoretical interests include historical materialism, structuralism, symbolic anthropology, and the concepts of overflow, coloniality, ritual, taboo, myth, and contamination in the context of conflict.