Short bio
I was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, where I took my first degrees at Universidad de la República. I went on to earn a PhD in History from the University of Cambridge (King’s College) in 2020, with a thesis on long-term rural development in Uruguay which won the Alexander Gerschenkron Prize of the Economic History Association. I am now Associate Professor of Economic History at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, and academic director of the Master in Sustainable Development and Global Governance. My research centres on Latin American and global economic history, with a focus on the interactions between agrarian development, institutions, and the natural environment. I have a keen interest in data visualization design, jazz, and cooking. Being Uruguayan I was given every chance to get good at football, but despite many heroic attempts by family, friends, and several coaches, my footballing skills remain limited to videogames.
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