Fitxa persona

Torrent, 1967. Degree in Geography and History (1990) and a PhD in Art History (2010) from the Universitat de València. He has developed his professional activity as director of the Museu Comarcal de l'Horta Sud Josep Ferrís March, from its creation in 1996 until 2013. Throughout this period he has combined this activity with teaching as an associate lecturer in the Department of History of Art at the University of Valencia. In 2013 he obtained a position as assistant professor and since 2018 he has been a full professor. He has been an elected member of the Senate since 2014, where he has been a member of several university management bodies, such as the Governing Council, the Statutes Committee and the Claustro Board. Between 2018 and 2023 he was director of the cultural heritage area of the Universitat de València.

His lines of research focus on the study of certain manifestations of cultural heritage related to the landscapes where they are integrated, such as popular architecture, industrial architecture and the heritage of public works, on which he has published various contributions in specialized journals and collective works.

He has worked on drawing up inventories of immovable ethnological heritage (1994) and industrial heritage in the Valencian Community (1997-2005) and has been a member of the drafting teams of various territorial planning instruments, special plans, master plans for monuments and municipal catalogues of protected buildings and spaces, and has authored a good number of reports on the protection and management of immovable cultural monuments. He has participated in more than ten research contracts and in several R&D projects financed in public calls.