Bachelor's degree in Geography and History (specialising in Geography). Professor of Human Geography at the University of Alicante (UA). Doctorate in Geography with research linked to Local Development and Economic Geography. Vice-President of the Scientific Council of the Ibero-American Environment Network (REIMA). Member of the Academic Scientific Council of the MCA BUSINESS AND POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL based in Florida (USA). Academic Co-Director of the Official Master's Degree in Local Development and Territorial Innovation (DELEITE-UA). Director of the AVANT-GVA (Anti-Depopulation) Interuniversity Chair at the University of Alicante. Director of GEOBINDEL (Local Development Research Observatory), within the Interuniversity Institute of Geography. Researcher at the Institute of Latin American Social Studies and professor in its doctoral programme. Director of the Human Geography Research Group-UA. With more than a hundred publications (books, book chapters, journals), both national and international. Director of 15 doctoral theses (until 2025), also internationally recognised and co-supervised. Visiting professor at Spanish universities (Granada, Salamanca, Complutense de Madrid), European universities (Aldo Moro University in Bari, Italy; Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany; MMSH Aix en Provence-Marseille, France) and American universities: Université Laval, Canada; Central University of Ecuador, Technical University of Manabí and State University of Manabí, Ecuador; Univalle, Valle del Cauca and Nariño in Colombia; National University of Asunción in Paraguay; Technological University of El Salvador; Pedro Ruiz Gallo National University and San Antonio Abad National University of Cusco in Peru; University of Havana and Carlos Rafael Rodríguez University of Cienfuegos in Cuba. Outstanding teacher in the DOCENTIA-UA programme for the last four academic years. He is also former president of the Local Development Working Group of the Association of Spanish Geographers (2021-2025) and former vice-dean of Students and Business at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters (2007-2010). Former Vice-Dean of Tourism and Geography at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters (2010-2011). Former Academic Director of the University Extension at the Villena University Campus (2012 to February 2017). Facilitator of the Villena Economic and Social Forum (2013-2015) alongside Professor Vicente Zapata. Member of GATER, the Rural Territory Analysis Group (advisory body) made up of the five public universities of Valencia and the Regional Ministry of Agriculture. Member of the working group on Territorial Diagnostics, AVALEM TERRITORI, (Universities of Castellón, Valencia and Alicante, together with LABORA (formerly SERVEF). Facilitator of the Villena Economic and Social Forum alongside Professor Vicente Zapata from the University of La Laguna. Member of the Jose María Soler Foundation. President of the Organising Committees of National and International Conferences on Local Development, Urban Geography and Sustainable Tourism over the last 15 years.