Curriculum

He took a degree and a doctor's degree in Classic Philology at Salamanca University and is a Professor of Latin Philology at A Coruña University. He directed the Spanish Philology Department (1991-92) and was the general secretary of A Coruña University (1992-97). Since 1997, he has been filling the office of director general of Universities in the 'Xunta de Galicia'. He enjoyed a scholarship of the 'Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst' to do some research works in the Academy of Bavaria (Germany) in 1983. He directs and coordinates many conferences, symposia and specialised courses and gives doctorate courses at A Coruña and Santiago Universities every year. He has also given doctorate courses at the Basque Country, Majorca and Cádiz Universities. He directed research projects of the Ministry of Education and Culture (DGICYT) and the Xunta de Galicia (CICET). He was a coordinator and teacher in the MA in Audio-visual Means, organised by the newspaper La Voz de Galicia. Nowadays, he directs a group of research workers at 'Ramón Piñeiro' Research Centre to elaborate the Corpus Documentale Latinum Gallaeciae and carry out the project As raíces culturais e literarias de Galicia: Os escritores de Galicia antes do galego.