Benito Elías García Valero finished his degree on Spanish Philology in 2008 at the University of Alicante. He got a Postgraduate in Literary Studies in 2010, and his PhD. with honours on Comparative Literature in 2015. He has completed research stages in the University of Sheffield (2011), the University of Osaka (2014), the NewHums Research Centre at the Università Degli Studi di Catania (2018) and the Laboratory of Neurobiology at University College London (2021). His main research applies compartist methodologies to study the relations between literature and science, especially cognitive poetics and neuroesthetics.  

He started to work at the University of Alicante in 2014, and he is currently a lecturer in the department of Spanish Philology, General Linguistics and Theory of Literature.