I am Associate Professor at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. My research focusses on the Economic History of developing regions, and in particular on the impact of colonialism on living standards and long-run human capital formation. I teach Economic History as well as Demography courses at graduate and undergraduate level. I also supervise PhD students in Economic History. 

I obtained my PhD in Economic History at Eberhard-Karls University of Tuebingen in 2014. My thesis dealt with the determinants of long-run human capital formation in the Iberian world. From 2014 to 2017 I was a post-doc researcher within the VIDI-Project: ‘Is Poverty Destiny? Exploring Long Term Changes in African Living Standards in Global Perspective’, at Wageningen University & Research. Afterwards, I started a tenure track position at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.

I am also a member of the Figuerola Institute of History and Social Sciences, the African Economic History Network (AEHN) and the GEPS working group, and an associate editor at the Revista de Historia Industrial (RHI). I am also the academic director of the Master in Economic Development and Growth (MEDEG) at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.