He is Bachelor’s Degree in English Philology (1988, Universidad Complutense de Madrid), MA in ESL (University of Georgia), MA in English Language and Literature (University of Wisconsin), PhD in English Philology (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) and European Doctorate in Didactics (Universidad Complutense de Madrid). He has four six-year teaching terms, three six-year research terms and one transfer. He has held Assistant Professor positions at the University of Georgia and the University of Wisconsin. Furthermore, he has been Visiting Scholar at Penn State University and the University of Antwerp, and he has taught postgraduate courses in Lithuania, Cyprus, Turkey, Colombia and Brazil. Currently he collaborates on master's degrees at the Universidad Católica de Ávila, UNED, and the Universidad de Jaén. He has also been the main researcher in four R&D projects and participated in eight more. He has directed six teaching innovation projects at Universidad de Alcalá and Universidad Politécnica de Valencia. Since 2013 he has been the director of the RELTS research group in which researchers from the Instituto Franklin-UAH participate. In 2017-2018 he was Acting Director of the TAEG Knowledge Center (Cyprus) where he holds different positions. He has more than 270 published works. Since 2019 he has been the Dean of the Faculty of Education of Universidad de Alcalá, and before that he was the Director of the Department of Modern Philology of the same university (2016-2019). He is currently president of the European Language Association for Specific Purposes.He is Editor in Chief of Revistas Encuentro (ESCI / web of Science), Global Journal of Foreign Language Teaching (ESCI / SCOPUS requested), Internal Journal of Learning & Teaching (ESCI / SCOPUS requested) and co-editor of Computer Assisted Language Learning Electronic Journal (SCOPUS), as well as a member of the scientific committee or evaluator of 15 other impact journals (JCR / SCOPUS / ESCI). He is a specialist in language teaching, assessment, educational technology and bilingual education.