He graduated in Geography from the University of Santiago de Compostela (1998), and that year he received the Extraordinary End-of-Degree Award. After spending time at foreign centres, such as the “Institut Universitaire Européen de la Mer” (Université de Bretagne Occidentale) and the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo (Mendoza, Argentina), he completed his PhD at the latter in 2021, receiving the Honorable Mention award. Before that, he was trained thanks to the work carried out on several national and international projects in the field of Geomorphology, Biogeography, Landscape and Geodiversity Heritage.
He has expressed the results of his research in a wide range of articles, book chapters, best practice guides and educational and informative works, also transmitting this knowledge on the ground through numerous scientific excursions.
In his more applied aspect, he has applied the accumulated knowledge to land use planning, materializing integrated territorial plans such as the “Galician Coastal Planning” and the “Plan or the Galician Land Use Planning Guidelines”.
His scientific objective is to demonstrate the great value that historical, popular and perceptive sources represent for Physical Geography, especially as a complement to traditional methods in this discipline, as well as the potential that this scientific branch has for History based on its methods of systematization of sources, the use of geographic information systems and the geospatial analysis of historical processes.
Throughout his career he has always sought to test a transversality that he has reached from different tools and key concepts, for example, sound or toponymy, always seeking a didactic version of them, issues that are part of the teaching subjects that he has taught in the Degree in Geography and the Master in Territorial Planning and Management at the Faculty of Geography, History and Art of the USC.
Currently he is part of the research teams of the projects “Spaniards in Portugal (1715-1868): labor emigration and political exiles” (Knowledge Generation 2021). PID2021-123476NB-I00 (Spain-Portugal); “Geomorphological heritage of the Vergara International Pass, Malargüe, Mendoza” (SIIP Projects-Call 2022, Argentina); “Assessment of the impact of climate change on high Andean wetlands to design adaptation strategies for vulnerable local communities (Resilient Puna): pilot test in the Nevado Coropuna (southern Peru) (Spain-Peru)” PR803D-2023-00000006-00 (Cooperación Galega, 2023); and, as Principal Investigator, of the project “Geomorphological heritage of mountain passes in cultural itineraries: the cases of the Pehuenche and Planchón-Vergara international passes in the Central Andes (Mendoza, Argentina) and the Santiago roads in the eastern mountain ranges of Galicia. Comparative methodological application for its conversion as a tool for endogenous development in mountain populations”. PR 815A 2023/3 (Cooperación Galega, 2023) (Spain-Argentina).
