Luis Salas Almela

Luis Salas Almela studied Early Modern History in the Universidad Complutense of Madrid (Spain). After having published his first book in 2002, he went to the European University Institute (Italy), where he obtained his PhD in History andCivilization (October, 2006) with a work devoted to the study of the most powerful Castilian noble house, that of the dukes of Medina Sidonia in the Early Modern period (published as Medina Sidonia: el poder de la aristocracia, 1680-1670, Madrid, 2008). Then he went to the Centro de História de Além-Mar, in Lisbon (Portugal), where he begun a new research line about the development of the Iberian ports during the expansion of the Atlantic trade with the Indies (16th Century). A line that he continued developing in the Escuela de Estudios Hispano-Americanos (CSIC, Seville) between July 2009 and December 2011. Since January 2012 he started a Ramón y Cajal contract in the University of Córdoba andwas appointed professor in the same institution in 2021.