For more details, please see my complete CV  (Updated July 2025).

CAREER

• July 2025 - Currently: Associate Professor at the Faculty of Economics and Business at UOC.

• September 2024 - Currently: Director of the Master's Program in Economic Analysis at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC).

• March 2021 - June 2025: Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Economics and Business at UOC.

• September 2021 - August 2024: Adjunct Professor at the Department of Economics at Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV).

• August 2020 - January 2021: Innovation Technician at the Business Innovation Chair at Fundació Universitat Rovira i Virgili (FURV).

• November 2019 - November 2020:  PostDoc Researcher at the Department of Economics at URV.

• December 2016 - October 2019: PreDoc Researcher at the Department of Economics at URV.

RESEARCH AND TEACHING CREDENTIALS (Highest-Level Accreditations)

• Six-year research assessment (AQU & ANECA accreditations): 2017 - 2022.

• Five-year teaching assessment (University accreditation): 2019 - 2023.

• Tenured Assistant Professor (ANECA accreditation): 2021.

• Reader's Report (AQU accreditation):  2021.

PHD SUPERVISION

• Ali Maddahi. "Exploring the Interplay between Transportation Infrastructure Network, Land Use/Cover Change, and Economic Activity in Spain with Big Data Analysis" (Started September 2023). Supervision jointly with E. Álvarez-Palau.

• Jorge Arturo Villarreal Valtierra. "Coworking and rural development" (Started September 2023). Supervision jointly with J. Wilson

RESEARCH MEMBERSHIPS

• SGR Group i2TIC-IA Lab (ICT and AI interdisciplinary research group)

-Research Member (2021 -).

• RSAI (Regional Science Association International)

-President of the Catalan Association of Regional Science (ACCR) (2025-).

-Member of the Editorial Board at 'La Riqueza de las Regiones' (Blog of the Spanish Regional Science Association) (2023-).

-Member of the European and Spanish Section (2017 -).

• RSA (Regional Studies Association)

-Member of the Spanish Section (2024 -).

• Journal of Regional Research (Investigaciones Regionales) ISSN: 1695-7253 / E-ISSN: 2340-2717

-Associate Editor (2025-).

EDUCATION

• • 2020: MSc in Teacher Training (Economics and Business) at UNED, Spain

  • 2019: PhD in Economics and Business at URV, Spain (Awarded with the Extraordinary Doctorate Award, Course 2019-20)

• • 2016: MSc in Economics at URV, Spain

  • 2015: BSc in Economics at URV, Spain

RESEARCH VISITING

July 2021: Institute of Geography and Spatial Management, Jagiellonian University, Krakow (Poland).

August – December 2018: Regional Economics Applications Laboratory (REAL), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA).

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Present Course (2024-25)

• • Universitat Oberta de Catalunya:

    • Global Business Environment (Master's Degrees belonging to the field of Economics and Business).

    • Economic Geography (Economics Bachelor's Degree and Tourism Bachelor's Degree).

    • Economic Development (Economics Bachelor's Degree).

    • Master Thesis Coordinator (Economic Analysis Master's Degree).

Past Courses (2016 - 2024)

• • Universitat Oberta de Catalunya:

    • Responsible Professor for different courses belonging to different Bachelor's and Master's Degrees belonging to the field of Economics and Business.

    • Master Thesis Supervisor (Economic Analysis Master's Degree).

    • Master Thesis Supervisor (Logistic's Management Master's Degree).

  • Universitat Rovira i Virgili:

    • Tourism Markets (Tourism Management Bachelor's Degree).

    • Statistics I (Business Administration, Economics and Finance and Accountancy Bachelor's Degree).

    • Statistics II (Business Administration Bachelor's Degree).

    • Econometrics I (Economics Bachelor's Degree).

    • Final Bachelor's Thesis (Supervisor).

    • Labour Economics (Law and Labour Relations Bachelor Degree and Labour Relations Bachelor's Degree).

    • Economics (Law Bachelor's Degree).

    • Applied Labour Market (Law and Labour Relations Bachelor Degree and Labour Relations Bachelor's Degree).

LANGUAGES

Catalan (C2 CEFR), Spanish (C1 CEFR) and English (C1 CEFR). 

COMPUTER SKILLS

Microsoft Office, Eviews, Gretl, Stata, R, GeoDa, QGIS, Geosegregation Analizer, SPSS, Scientific Workplace, LaTex.