PhD (Queens' College, University of Cambridge), is a full-time research fellow at the Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). His field of specialisation is the history of Spanish naval shipbuilding in Europe, America and Asia during the Age of Sail, and teaches military and naval history and historiography at both graduate and undergraduate levels. His book Poder Naval y Modernización del Estado: política de construcción naval española (siglos XVI-XVIII) was awarded in the scientific category of the National Council for the Sciences and Arts (INAH-CONACULTA) in 2012. He has published extensively in scientific journals and books, and given academic conferences in Mexico, the United States, Perú, Chile, Spain, France, Great Britain, Japan, the Philippines, an Singapore. He is one of the founding members of the Red Imperial Contractor State Group, which focuses on the study of resource mobilisation for war and State-building, and gathers international scholars from several countries. He is Associate Editor of the International Journal of Maritime History (Leiden, Netherlands) and the Revista de Historia Naval (Instituto for Naval History and Culture of the Spanish Navy). He is also the founder and coordinator pf the Philippines-Mexico Studies Program of the UNAM, and the Red Filipiniana Network.