Senior lecturer (Maître de conférences) in Spanish Civilization at the University of Grenoble Alpes (France). First Degree in History from the University of Zaragoza (Spain) and PhD in History and Civilization from the European University Institute (Florence, Italy) in 2009 with a thesis about the Institute of Political Studies (Miguel Artola prize, 2010).

He has been researcher at the Residencia de Estudiantes (2001-2003) and the Ortega y Gasset Foundation (2003), visiting researcher at the University of Madison Wisconsin (2006) and postdoctoral researcher at the University of Columbia in Nueva York (2010-2012). In 2004 he was granted with the Prize for Young Researchers from the Spanish Contemporary History Association. In 2021, he was scientific member of the School of Advanced Hispanic and Iberian Studies ( EHEHI, Casa de Velázquez).

He has been visiting researcher at the Central European University, the University of California in San Diego (UCSD), the Instituto de Ciências Sociaisat theUniversidade de Lisboa and the IMT School for Advanced Studies in Lucca. In 2018, the Contemporary History Association granted him the “Young Researchers Award”. He has published more than twenty articles and book chapters in national and international journals and publishers.

His latest works include the book Dictatorship and the electoral vote. Francoism and the Portuguese New State in comparative perspective, 1945-1975, Sussex Academic Press, 2020.