Fitxa persona

Degree in History from the Universitat de València with Extraordinary Honor Prize (2006) and Doctor cum laude in Archaeology from the same university (2013). He developed his PhD The Requena-Utiel Plateau in the 2^nd-1^st centuries BC. The Romanization of the Iberian territory of Kelin under the direction of Prof. Consuelo Mata, in the framework of a pre-doctoral fellowship Cinc Segles UV and with a grant from the Instituto Alicantino de Cultura Juan Gil-Albert. The thesis was later published as a monograph in the Miscellaneous serie of the Servei d'Investigació Prehistòrica (2015). During the realization of the PhD, he developed research stays in the School of Human Evolution & Social Change of the Arizona State University (USA) under the direction of Prof. Michael Barton, in the School of Humanities of the University of Southampton (England) with Prof. Simon Keay and in the Department of Archeology at the University of Glasgow (Scotland) with Prof. Peter Van Dommelen. 

Subsequently, he enjoyed a VAL i+D GVA postdoctoral contract at the UV Department of Prehistory, Archaeology and Ancient History, with a one-year postdoctoral stay at the Joukowsky Institute for Archeology and the Ancient World at Brown University (USA). He has been an associate professor of Ancient History at the UV, an associate professor in the Department of Humanities at the Universidad Cardenal Herrera CEU and a collaborating professor at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. He is currently an Lecturer of ​​Archaeology at the UV. He has taught in the degrees of History, Art History and Philosophy, as well as in the master's degree in Archaeology.

He is specialized in Iberian Culture and his line of research is focused on Landscape & Territory analysis, rural habitat, pottery production, metallurgy, beekeeping, as well as Romanization processes of indigenous societies. He has co-directed the archaeological excavations in the Iberian rural settlement of Casa de la Cabeza (Requena, Valencia) and in the metallurgical workshop of Los Chotiles (Sinarcas, Valencia). Since 2017, together with Consuelo Mata, he has co-directed the project for the excavation, research and enhancement of the Iberian hillfort of Pico de los Ajos (Yátova, Valencia), in collaboration with the Museu de Prehistòria de València and the Ayuntamiento de Yátova, integrated within the Ruta dels Ibers. València. Likewise, he has carried out 4 surveying campaigns for the Iberian and Roman settlement pattern in the Requena-Utiel region and has worked on numerous excavations in Spain and Italy, highlighting his participation in the projects of the Casa di Arianna and Via degli Augustali (Pompeii, Italy), Truncu e'Molas & Pauli Stincus (Punic occupation in Sardinia, Italy) and Djebel Mergueb (territory of Carthage, Tunisia).

He is part of the editorial board of the journal Saitabi (Facultat de Geografia i Història, UV). He has been reviewer in journals such as the Cambridge Archaeological Journal, Trabajos de Prehistoria and SAGVNTVM. He has participated in the elaboration of two master plans, one of the Iberian Culture in Valencia and another of the aforementioned Pico de los Ajos.

He is head of initiative of the Vice-Principal of Culture and Society, coordinating the Unisocietat program in different locations (Requena, Bétera and Cullera). In addition to that, he coordinates the Seasonal Universities of Requena (Wine) and Ayora (Honey Culture). It is part of the Centro de Estudios Requenenses and the Instituto de Estudios Comarcales de la Hoya de Buñol-Chiva, an institution from which received a research prize in 2009. He has got 2 six-year research periods by ANECA.