He holds a PhD in International Relations and African Studies from the Autonomous University of Madrid and a Bachelor and Master's degree in Political and Social Studies from the Sciences-Po Institute of Political Studies, Paris. He has done research and fieldwork at the Institut Fondamentale d'Afrique Noire of the Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar as well as at the Gaston Berger University in Saint-Louis, Senegal. Member of the Working Group of the University Program of Asian and African Studies, coordinator of the Diploma in African Studies, "Memory and Contemporary Dynamics" 2018-2019, 2019-2020 and 2020-2021. He is a member of the African Studies Group at the Autonomous University of Madrid and his research topics are: Sufi Islam, African transnational networks and migrations, processes of State and identity formation and construction in sub-Saharan Africa and Senegal. He is currently a full-time associate professor-researcher at the Center for International Relations of the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences of the UNAM where he teaches, among others, the subject of Africa as part of the curriculum of the Bachelor's Degree in International Relations. He is a candidate for the National System of Researchers (SNI).