I am a specialist in Archaeology of the Recent Past that investigates traumatic landscapes and architectures and contributes to their sustainable management as cultural resources and places of memory. After obtaining my PhD (2012) at USC, I have developed an ascending international scientific career through two consecutive postdoctoral stays at the University of the Basque Country (Juan de la Cierva 2014-2017) and at the Institute of Contemporary History, NOVA in Lisbon (CEECIND/04218/2017). I have a solid leadership background in field archaeology (director of 50 projects), leading my own archaeological research in northwestern Spain, Croatia and Portugal, as well as collaborating as a team member in other projects in Spain, Chile, Ethiopia, Guiné-Bissau and Equatorial Guinea. My talent as a researcher is accredited by awards such as the Extraordinary Degree Award (USC, 1998) or the Culture Award of the Provincial Council of Pontevedra for the best thesis in Humanities (2012). My ability to lead teams has been revealed in my postdoctoral career, in which I have worked with professionals, predoctoral researchers and students in training. I am currently an independent principal investigator at the IHC where I develop my project Archaeology of the Contemporary Past and Socialization of Heritage and direct the Uses of the Past, Memory and Cultural Heritage line and the Comparative Political History Research Group. I am the author and/or co-author of 169 publications on Archaeology, Anthropology and critical heritage studies, 160 communications and/or presentations at national and international conferences and 159 dissemination activities. In turn, I have organized and managed 34 R&D&I events (conferences, seminars). The international projection of my work is well supported by the articles in indexed journals (12 in journals of the Q1 quartile) and monographs (12 book chapters in international publishers with scientific peer review), as well as the research and international cooperation projects in which I have participated (Spain, Portugal, Ethiopia, Croatia, Chile, Guiné-Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, Argentina, Brazil). The growing impact of my research is well illustrated by citations on platforms such as Google Scholar (total: 1709; h-index: 21; 24/11/2024). I have been a visiting researcher at institutions such as the School of Advanced Research (USA), the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Binghamton University (New York, USA), the National University of Mar del Plata (Argentina), and the Universidade Federal Fluminense. I am a guest reviewer for journals such as American Ethnologist, Estudios Atacameños, Journal of European Archaeology, Journal of Contemporary Archaeology, Complutum, Arqueología de la Arquitectura, Public Archaeology, Arqueología Histórica, Open Archaeology and Arqueología. I have taught at the University of Santiago de Compostela and at the University of Vigo on Classical Archaeology, Prehistory and Archaeological Methodology. I have coordinated Archaeology modules in specialization courses and master's degrees at both the USC and the CSIC. I teach master's classes at the Complutense University, the University of Vigo and the University of the Basque Country. I have trained students in Field Archaeology in Chile, Ethiopia, Equatorial Guinea and Portugal. I have also followed and trained 340 young people in work camps since 2003. I have been a member of the jury of 11 doctoral theses, of the Scientific-Technical Committee for the selection of doctoral research staff of the Andalusian Plan for Research, Development and Innovation (PAIDI 2020). I am the author of the script for three documentaries. Between 2023 and 2024 I was responsible for the archaeology section of the Zig Zag cultural program on galician Television. The manual written with Alfredo González Ruibal "Archaeology. An approach to the materiality of the past (Alianza Editorial, Madrid, 2018) is a reference in the Latin American Universities.