Professor of Geography at the University of Santiago de Compostela, in the Department of Geography and Town and Country Planning. Specialist in urban and cultural Geography.

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Director General for Tourism of the Autonomous Galician Government (2005-2009), Dean of the Faculty of Geography and History (2003-2005), Director of the Euro-regional Study Centre (CEER), an organism for scientific cooperation between the universities in Galicia and the northern region of Portugal (2013-2017).

Guest lecturer at universities in France (Le Mans, Caen, Toulouse-Le Mirail), Norway (Bergen, Finmark University College), Canada (Calgary, Lethbridge) and Brazil (Federal de Bahía, Federal de Sorocaba, Estadual de Feiras de Santana).

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Principal draft researcher for the Regional Atlas Project for the 2020 Strategy from the EU. Director in a cooperation project with Africa.

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Person in charge of the Competitive Reference Group, ANTE (Territorial Analysis), at the University of Santiago.

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Director of 25 Doctoral Theses, some of these in co-supervision with the Universities of Barcelona, Porto and Paris I-La Sorbonne.​