Grantee of the Research Staff Training Plan (FPI) of the Ministry of Education and Science between 1987 and 1989. University assistant between 1989 and 1994. Senior lecturer between 1994 and 2003. University professor since 2003. Deputy director of the research section of the Department of Culture and Research of Alicante's Juan Gil-Albert Culture Institute between 1995 and 2007. Director of the University of Alicante's Interdisciplinary Research Group in Critical Studies on Latin America (GIECRYAL) since 2007, a group which has belonged to the CLACSO Network (Latin American Council of Social Sciences) since 2015 as an associate institution. Director of GeoGraphos. Revista Digital para Estudiantes de Geografía y Ciencias Sociales (ISSN: 2173-1276) since 2010. Full member of the international organisation FLACSO Spain (Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences) since 2014.