I am a Permanent Professor (tenure-track was funded by elite national scheme Ramón y Cajal) at the Department of English Philology, Faculty of Letters, University of Murcia. I co-direct the Daedalus Lab, the Murcia Center for Cognition, Communication, and Creativity. I am a member of the Red Hen Lab, an international consortium for research into multimodal communication.

I am the Principal Investigator of MULTIFLOW, a national research grant for a project to model the interplay of language, gesture, and speech patterns in human communication and thought. Continuously since 2016, I have been the PI of four such national grants.

I am the coordinator of MULTICOM, the Erasmus Mundus Masters in the Data Science of Human Multimodal Communication (Murcia, Lund, FAU Erlangen). I also coordinate MULTIDATA, the Erasmus Plus platform for the multimodal analysis of video data for higher education (Murcia, FAU, Radboud & MPI Psycholinguistics). I also lead the participation of the University of Murcia in the STORYTEL E+ project, to develop multimodal datasets for the study and teaching of oral storytelling (Cologne, Murcia, FAU, Bologna).

Previously, I was a Ramón y Cajal Assistant Professor at the University of Murcia, an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the University of Tübingen, a EURIAS Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and the Social Sciences, a FBBVA Leonardo Fellow at the Edinburgh Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and the AHRC Project A History of Distributed Cognition, a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Culture and Society (University of Navarra), a Research Fellow at All Souls College and the Faculty of Classics (University of Oxford), a Tandem Research Fellow in Linguistics and Literary Studies at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, and a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the universities of California San Diego (Cognitive Science), Case Western Reserve (Cognitive Science), Murcia (Classics and English), and Oxford (Classics).

I have also been a visiting scholar at the universities of FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Cologne, Tübingen, VU Amsterdam, Heidelberg, and UC Berkeley.

I have led teams including researchers and technicians from a great variety of profiles and career stages: project manager, computing and AI experts, data scientists, postdoctoral researchers (Marie Curie, Juan de la Cierva, or hired by my own grants), MAs, undergraduates.

I lead grants, collaborate in communication and funding strategies, and serve as a member of the governing board at the Hands with Heart Foundation, an international NGO helping children and adults with very limited access to healthcare and education.

My teaching experience includes various aspects of multimodal data science and its associated cognitive and linguistic theories, English linguistics and literature, discourse and communication, cognition and poetics, modern Greek, and cognitive linguistics, at the undergraduate and graduate levels. I was also an English teacher at secondary school for seven years. I am an award-winning author of fiction, children's literature, and science popularization in Spanish.

PhD in ancient and modern Greek literature, BA+MA in Classics, and BA+MA in English from the University of Murcia. MA in Classics from the University of London, University College London.