Professor of Economic History at the University of Alicante. He holds a bachelor's degree in History (1990), with honors, and a PhD in Economics (1996), with honors, from the University of Alicante, and he has received the Ramón Carande Economic History research award (1993). He has been vice-dean of the Faculty of Economics (2008-2010) and director of the Department of Applied Economic Analysis (2010-2012) of the University of Alicante. Since September 2019 he is Coordinator of the PhD Program in Business, Economics and Society. From 2008 to 2015 he has been co-editor of the journal Investigaciones de Historia Económica-Economic History Research and is currently a member of the scientific committee of Patrimonio Industriale and Ricerche di Storia Economica e Sociale. He has been a visiting researcher at the European University Institute in Florence (1991-1992) and visiting professor at the Università degli Studi di Padova (2013-2015 and 2018) and at the Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro (2019). He completed his doctoral thesis on the development of the footwear industry in Spain, under the direction of Professor Jordi Nadal of the University of Barcelona. He is specialized in the economic development of southern European countries and in Business History, and his main current research focuses on the industry resilience, the evolution of industrial districts, fashion industries and the use of country marks.