Architect and Civil Engineer. PhD in Urban Planning and Territorial Management from the Technical University of Valencia. MBA by the ESIC Business School of Valencia and MsC in Concessions and Public-Private Collaboration of the Technical University of Madrid. Associated Professor responsible for various courses related to territorial policy and environmental & infrastructure planning at the Faculty Civil Engineering of the UPCT since 2010. He has also been a visiting professor at the universities of California Berkeley (USA), Alcalá de Henares (Spain), CEPES (Mexico) and Cyprus University of Technology. He is currently an invited professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) through a Fulbright grant from the United States government.

In the scientific field, he is researcher in charge of the R&D group of Territorial Policy, Environmental and Infrastructure Planning (http://potepapi.upct.es) and Director of the Biyectiva GIS Business Professorship of the UPCT. He is the author of more than 50 publications in international research journals and 15 books, being part of the 2% most cited authors in the world according to the list published by Stanford University. He has participated in several European research projects and directed more than 20 final degree projects and doctoral theses related to GIS applied to Environmental Sciences, Urban Planning, Infrastructure Management and Natural Hazards diagnosis. He and belongs to the editorial board of several international scientific journals and regularly works as a reviewer in the main scientific journals on urban planning and environmental studies areas, as well as as an evaluator of scientific projects for public research organizations in several countries from all over the world. 

At a professional level, he has held positions of diverse responsibility in the private sector in national and multinational companies in the field of consulting and civil engineering. He is an advisor to various regional and national public administrations. He has been coordinator of the reconstruction project for the city of Lorca financed by the European Infrastructure Bank after the earthquake of 2011 and the project of Integrated Territorial Investment of the European Union for the Mar Menor coastal lagoon after its environmental crisis of 2015. In the field of public management, he has been the General Director of Transport, Coasts and Ports of the Government of the Region of Murcia and member of the boards of administration of the public business societies of the Ministry of Public Works from Spain for the urban integration of the high-speed trains in the cities of Murcia and Cartagena. He has also been an elected member of the governing board of the College of Civil Engineers, and of the Professional Ethics Committee of the College of Architects.