CAREER

University Professor in the Department of Contemporary History of the UPV/EHU, where he has developed his teaching and research activity since 1989. In the current principal investigator of the group.

Degree in Geography and History from the UPV/EHU (1987) and Doctor in Geography and History from the UPV/EHU with an extraordinary prize (1993).

He has made stays as a pre-doctoral researcher in Paris (1989 and 1990) and London (1990), as a Visiting Fellow in the European University Institute of Florence (2002) and as a Visiting Professor in the Universtiy of Messina (2017).

His research activity is developed in the consolidated research group “Biography & Parliament”, in the lines of research concerned with the analysis of elites through collective biography and prosopographic analysis, and contemporary Bilbao.

In developing this work, he has participated as a researcher in several research projects and contracts, notable amongst which is the Biographical Dictionary of the Spanish MPs (1810-1854), funded by the Spanish Parliament, of which he was executive editor, and he has participated in the elaboration of the resulting publications.

Together with this group activity, he has developed individual research on the Democratic Sexennium (1868-1874), the memory of the Francoist repression, and the history of the press. He has also elaborated teaching material and some works on the evaluation of university activity.

His career and research have been evaluated positively in sex sexennia, five research sexennia (1989-2018) and one research transfer sexennia (2006-2015). Similarly, he has received the Prize for Research of the Euskoiker Foundation in the area of social sciences and humanities (2007).

He has been a member of the editorial board of the journal Historia contemporánea since 1998, of the journal Bidebarrieta since 2009, of the journal Vasconia since 2012 and of the journal Parliaments, Estates & Representation since 2017.

In the management field, he was Director of the university evaluation agency UNIBASQ (2009-2011), Director of the Department (2017-2024), Vice-Dean of the Faculty (1997-2000), Vice-Rector of the University (2000-2001) and a member of different academic commissions. At present, he is Secretary General of the International Commission for the History of Representative & Parliamentary Institutions, an organization affiliated to the International Committee of Historical Sciences (ICHS).