He received his PhD. in Socio- and Applied Linguistics from the Autonomous University of Madrid (Spain) with distinction by the European Union, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at King’s College London (2010-2011) and The University of Hong Kong (2011-2012). He has worked as assistant professor at The University of Hong Kong (2012-2015) where he has also been appointed as honorary associate professor in the Faculty of Education (2016-2017). He is author of the book Urban Schools and English Language Education in Late Modern China: A Critical Sociolinguistic Ethnography (Routledge Critical Series in Multilingualism, 2013).