I am a Doctor in Humanities by the University Carlos III of Madrid and in Religions and Thought Systems by the École Pratique des Hautes Études-PSL, with specialization in the religious history of the Graeco-Roman world. My research focuses on the workings of polytheism and the dynamics of religious continuity and change in the Hellenistic and Roman Mediterranean. I am developing this research focus through five specific lines of investigation: 1) the cohabitation and joint veneration of gods in sanctuaries; 2) theonyms and cult epithets; 3) the religious dynamics of port cities; 4) Hellenistic and Roman ruler cults; 5) mystery cults. 

My doctoral thesis, Divine Cohabitations in Sanctuaries of the Graeco-Roman World (2021), co-supervised by Prof. Jaime Alvar Ezquerra (UC3M) and Prof. Nicole Belayche (EPHE), was recognized internationally with two prizes: one from the UC3M to the best doctoral thesis in Humanities 2021, and another one from the Chancellerie des Universités de Paris to the best thesis in Lettres et Sciences Humaines 2022. 

During the academic year 2021-2022, I did a six-month research stay at the University of Toulouse - Jean Jaurès within the ERC Advanced Grant project MAP 741182: Mapping Ancient Polytheisms, directed by Prof. Corinne Bonnet, as well as a six-month stay at Leiden University under the supervision of Prof. Miguel John Versluys, funded by a Margarita Salas fellowship. Since October 2022, I am a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Classical Archaeology and Ancient History at Lund University, where I am developing the project Divine Networks in Ancient Mediterranean Ports (DiNAMPo).

This project seeks to deepen our knowledge of the dynamics of ancient polytheism and religious continuity and change in the multiethnic, multicultural and highly interconnected Hellenistic and Roman Mediterranean (late 4th cent. BC – ca. 300 AD). The research approach through which this aim is pursued is the analysis of human-divine communication in ancient port cities noted for their cosmopolitanism, with a focus on the fabrication du divin or “god-making” that it implies – i.e. the human ceaseless (re)creation of the divine and the ritual means to interact with it in religious communication and mythological narratives through the use of various symbolic and material media. Particularly, the investigation assesses the impact of maritime networks and intense cross-cultural interactions on “god-making” in the religious practices and myths of two first-rank Mediterranean ports specifically selected as case studies: the sacred island of Delos, mythical birthplace of Apollo and Artemis, declared free-tax port by the Romans in 166 BC, and the river port area of Rome, i.e. the Regiones XIII (Aventinus) and XIV (Transtiberim), housing the Emporium and the residential area of the people involved in its economic activity. 

The research is based on the premise that unprecedented increased connectivity and mobility and the resultant strong cross-cultural relations enlarge the number of a local community’s religious options – of available gods, ritual practices and media –, thus expand the significant world of its members, and foster religious change and original religious developments. Consequently, major port cities like Delos or Rome were large "religious laboratories”, places with great individual and social religious creativity and, in consequence, a high capacity to produce religious innovations, which could become anchored in the local religious customs, or even be transferred to other places, or globalized. Therefore, port cities appear as ideal contexts to investigate polytheism through the lens of multiculturalism, as well as the dynamization of religion by seafaring mobility and maritime economic activities.

I am also an active participant in the research projects PID2020-117176GBI00: Religion: the Individuals and the Communitas (RICO, 01/09/2021 – 31/08/2025), directed by Prof. Jaime Alvar Ezquerra, and PID2021-127020NB-I00: Omnipotens. Manufacturing and Empowering Gods in Greco-Roman Antiquity (OMEGA, 01/09/2022 – 31/08/2026), headed by Dr. Valentino Gasparini, both funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation.

Likewise, I am a member of the research group Historiography and History of Religions of the Julio Caro Baroja Institute of Historiography (University Carlos III of Madrid) and of the ARYS Association ("Antiquity: Religions and Societies"), as well as assistant secretary of the homonymous scientific journal published by this association.