Fitxa persona

Graduate (1996) and Doctor (2002) in Social Anthropology from the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Tarragona) and full member of the Philosophy and Social Sciences Section of the Institut d'Estudis Catalans since 2021. He has been secretary of the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at the University of Valencia (2003-06), director of the official interuniversity master's degree in Cultural Management at the University of Valencia (2009-14) and vice-dean (2014-18) and dean (2018-2024) of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Valencia. He has been predoctoral research fellow at the University of Nevada (Ren, 1999) and postdoctoral fellow at the Queen'#s University of Belfast (2003), the Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Urbaine of the CNRS (Ivry Sud Seine, 2011), at the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (Oxford, 2015). He is the author of several texts and has participated in various research projects on borders and national identities, intangible heritage, emigration of Spanish scientists, urban glocalisation, urban movements and coexistence and neighbourhood relations in multicultural neighbourhoods. He has taught various subjects of Social and Cultural Anthropology in the Degrees in Social Work, Sociology, Human Nutrition and Dietetics, Food Science and Technology and the Double Degree in Sociology and Political and Public Administration Sciences, in the University Master's Degree in Cultural Management and in the Master's Degree in Development Cooperation (specialising in migration). He has been a trainer for various university extension courses, including the Unisocietat and Nau Gran programmes and the course on SDGs and Heritage. In addition, he has participated as a trainer in courses on Intercultural Mediation with immigrants, in Psychosocial Intervention in Multicultural Contexts in Teacher Training Days of the Popular University of Valencia, course on Integration of Immigrants of the IVASP and various continuing education courses of the City Council of Valencia on mediation, social intervention with immigrants and intercultural competences for the attention to citizenship. He is a member and collaborator, respectively, of the research groups MIDICO (Migrations, diversity and Social Cohesion) and ANTROPIA (Anthropology, heritage and cultural imaginaries).