Short bio
I was born in Montevideo and I took my first degrees at Uruguay’s Universidad de la República. I went on to earn a PhD in Economic History from the University of Cambridge (2020), where I was based at King’s College and the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure (Campop). My thesis on long-term rural development in Uruguay won the 2021 Alexander Gerschenkron Prize of the Economic History Association. More recently, I have been awarded the Nicholas Crafts Early Career Award and the T.S. Ashton Prize from the Economic History Society (EHS, UK). My research has been published in top history journals (Past & Present, Economic History Review, Historical Methods, Journal of Global History) as well as in leading journals in the social sciences (World Development, Journal of Rural Studies) and interdisciplinary science (Nature Communications, Global Environmental Change). Since finishing my PhD, I have been at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, where I am currently ‘Ramón y Cajal’ Associate Professor of Economic History. 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 good food. 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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