Fitxa persona

Valencia (1964). PhD in Classical Philology (1994) and Tenured Professor of Latin Philology at the Faculty of Philology, Translation and Communication.

After a period as a secondary school teacher, he joined the University of Valencia in 1994, where he teaches on various undergraduate and postgraduate programmes and has also served as director of the Master’s Degree in Research in Languages and Literatures. He has led educational innovation projects, including the University of Valencia’s first MOOC (Incipit). He has been awarded six recognised five-year teaching periods.

As a researcher, he has participated in several competitive research projects and has been Principal Investigator on two of them. His research focuses on Latin linguistics and the tradition and reception of classical literature. He is a member of the Research Group on the Reception of Classical Literatures (GIRLC). He is the author of numerous articles in indexed journals, as well as books and book chapters. He has served on the Editorial Board of the journals Studia Philologica Valentina and Quaderns de Filologia, and has directed two international scientific conferences. He has been awarded three six-year research periods recognised by ANECA.

With regard to management responsibilities, he served as Secretary of the Department of Classical Philology and of the Faculty of Philology, Translation and Communication, and as Dean of this Faculty from 2012 to 2018. From 2018 to 2022 he was Vice-Rector for Internationalisation and Cooperation at the University of Valencia, and from 2022 until January 2026, Vice-Rector for Internationalisation and Multilingualism. He has been a member of the University Senate since 2013 and was President of the Management Council of the Language Centre from 2022 to 2024. He has been a member of the Executive Committee of CRUE–International from 2019 to 2025, serving as its Executive Secretary since 2021 till 2025. He has been a member of the Steering Committee of Xarxa Vives from 2022 to 2026. He has been a member of the Steering Committee of the Alliance of European Universities FORTHEM since 2019, a body he chaired in 2022 and 2023.