Doctor in Economics and tenured university professor of the department of Applied Economics (Political Economy Teaching Unit). He currently directs the POLAR (Policies, Actors, and Globalization) Research Group at the University of Valencia.
His areas of scientific interest are: international economic policy; economic policy evaluation; creativity in economics teaching; and art and economics.
He has participated in several competitive research projects supported by national (Ministry) and international institutions (European Union and United Nations). He has over 100 publications among articles, book and book chapters. Also, he has carried out research stays in several universities and European research centres, such as the Centre for the Study of Industrialisation Modes (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris) or the Nucleus of Research for Political Science and International Relations of Portugal, among others.
Besides, he is a screenwriter and director of the documentaries Brass Sounds (2003), La Fábrica (The Factory, 2005) and The Banquet of (Cultural) Commons (2020).