(Almería, 1985). Degree in History from the University of Granada (2008). Master in “Europe, the Mediterranean World and its Atlantic Diffusion. Methods and Theories for Historical Research” at the Universidad Pablo de Olavide (2010). PhD from the Universidad Pablo de Olavide (2014), extraordinary doctoral prize, with the thesis La construcción del Gran Norte de México: cartografía, conocimiento y poder (The construction of the Great North of Mexico: cartography, knowledge and power). Since 2021 he has been a Senior Scientist at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas at the Escuela de Estudios Hispano-Americanos / Instituto de Historia, in Seville. He has carried out research stays at the History of Science and Technology Department of the Johns Hopkins University and at the Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography at the Newberry Library, Chicago. He has been a postdoctoral researcher at the Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (2016-2018) and a Juan de la Cierva postdoctoral researcher at the Universidad Pablo de Olavide (2020).

He is principal investigator of the MAPWORKS research project “Marcos de mapeo y prácticas de territorialización en América (siglos XVI-XVIII): espacios, categorías y representaciones” (PID2022-141020NA-I00, Proyectos de Generación del Conocimiento, Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación). He has been PI of the I+D+i FEDER-Andalucía CARTOPOLIC project “Cartografías en movimiento. Circulation and construction of geographical knowledge in the Iberian polycentric monarchies (16th and 17th centuries)”.

He specialises in the history of cartography and geographical ideas in the Iberian colonial spheres during the Modern Age, in the history of America and the history of navigation. His research focuses on the processes of circulation and construction of geographical knowledge, interpretations of the natural environment and its cartographic representations in New Spain and the Pacific Ocean between the 15th and 18th centuries. His research has resulted in the publication of a monograph, two coordinated books and a critical edition, among other works in books and journals indexed both nationally and internationally.

He has taught in the PhD Programme “Sustainable Development and Globalisation” at the Autonomous University of Baja California Sur, where he co-directed two PhD theses, and lectured in the areas of Modern History and Contemporary History at the Pablo de Olavide University. In 2021 he received the honorary mention for an article published in 2019 in the category of Cultural History by the Mexican Committee of Historical Sciences. He is currently editor of the journal Anuario de Estudios Americanos, published by Editorial CSIC.