Trained at the University of Murcia, where I am currently a Lecturer of Medieval History. I have completed my training in various foreign research centres (Université Lumière-Lyon 2, Universidad de la República Oriental del Uruguay, Escuela Española de Historia y Arqueología in Rome, University of Ghent, Università degli Studi di Siena, Universidade Nova de Lisboa and Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne) through pre-doctoral and post-doctoral stays financed by public competitive programs.
My initial research focused on the analysis of the social organisation of the border territory during the late medieval centuries, with particular attention being paid to fortified settlements. Later, I oriented my work towards the analysis of the Andalusi rural space, paying special attention to agrarian archaeology and, within it, to the study of collective granaries, on which I directed a research project of the National Plan. In recent years, I have maintained this direction, but I have added two new lines of research focused on the archaeology of the Jewish minority in Iberia, and on the transformations produced in al-Andalus in the 12th and 13th centuries.