Doctorate in Geography and Full Professor of the Department of Geography of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

Between February 2002 and February 2015 he was responsible for the Office of the Vice-Dean for Innovation and New Technologies at the Faculty of Geography and History (UCM); during these 13 years he has incorporated ICT within teaching/learning processes on the five Undergraduate and fourteen Master's courses delivered at the Faculty; implementing various tools for educational management (Virtual Campus, Plandoc, ERDAS, GIS, etc.) and organising over a hundred training courses for the teaching staff at the centre.

Participant in over twenty research projects funded by various institutions, a dozen of which cover Innovation and Improvement in Teaching Quality (7 in the role of lead researcher). He is the author of more than forty scientific articles mainly covering two fields of research: urban social problems, in particular security, and the application of new technologies to didactics in Social Sciences.

He was the first geographer to address the study of delinquency from a spatial perspective in Spain, opening up an important disciplinary line of research in the mid-80s. He has played a notable role as coordinator of a dozen atlases and graphical constructs of varying types. These include in particular the Madrid Security Atlas (2007), commissioned by Madrid City Council to incorporate Geographical Information Systems within the CISEM, so as to implement security management in the city using Information and Communication Technologies. He is also the author of the work “Espacio y delincuencia. Atlas Criminológico de Madrid (1983-1997)”, which received the “Antonio Maura” Municipal Research Award. Granted by Madrid City Council in 1999. His work in the field of the application of ICT to security has earned him the Decoration for Aeronautical Merit with white badge awarded by the Ministry of Defence on 22 December 2010.

He has directed four doctoral theses. The most recent, “Spatial analysis and security prognosis in urban areas: A comprehensive pursuit of the spatial-conduct traceability and its connections with the security driving forces” was defended by Samuel Nájera Bailón in January 2018.

International recognition of his work in the field of applying new technologies to the aforementioned research areas has given him the opportunity to deliver training programmes at the Colegio de Michoacán (La Piedad, Michoacán State, Mexico 2006), the Institute of Geography of the Universidad Autónoma de México (Mexico City, 2008), Universidad de Antioquia (Medellín, Colombia, 2011), Universidad de Santo Tomás  (Tunja, Colombia, 2014 and 2015), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Nicaragua (León, Nicaragua, 2015) and Universidad del Valle (Cali, Colombia, 2015) .

He currently teaches on various courses, including the Degree in Geography and Territorial Organisation, the Master's in Territorial Dynamics and Development, and the Master's in Geographical Information Technologies, all at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid.