The speaker holds a Ph.D. in Catalan Philology from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (Cum Laude), with the first dissertation in Spain on "European Concentration Camp Literature." He is the founder and director of CILEC (Center for Research on European Concentration Camp Literature). Recognized as a leading scholar in the field, he has focused his studies and publications on reflections regarding the relationship between testimony and Holocaust literature: “A Catalan in Mauthausen” (2001), “Women in the Nazi Camps” (2003), “Spaniards in the Nazi Camps” (2004). He has also researched Francoist repression in “Dying in Gernika-Lumo” (2004) and “Francoist Repression in the Canary Islands and North Africa” (forthcoming). He has edited the memoirs of Marcials Mayans, "Such a Long Night," and of Juan Camacho, "From Barcelona to Montevideo via Mauthausen and Buenos Aires," "Survivors of Mauthausen," and the censored manuscripts of Joaquim Amat Piniella: "Les llunyanies, poemes de l’exili" (71 poems written inside the camp) and the novel "K.L. Reich."
He was commissioned by the European Union (2007) to direct and compile the Dictionnaire Critique de la littérature européenne des camps de concentration et d’extermination nazis. He has received the Award for Republican Values from the President of the Parliament of Catalonia.