Álvaro Piquero is PhD degree in Spanish Literature by the Complutense University of Madrid (2021) and he is currently a Substitute Professor at the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED). Between March 2022 and 2023, he had a research stay on the Romanceiro.pt project at the Institute for the Study of Literature and Tradition (IELT – NOVA FCSH). He has taught at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, the Università degli Studi di Perugia and the University of the Algarve. Related with his scientific works, he has published in high-impact journals and in national and international collective volumes, and is the author of the monographs El imaginario de la poesía erótica en los Siglos de Oro (Berlin, Peter Lang, 2023) and Ramón Menéndez Pidal en la Sierra de Guadarrama. Crónica de un vecino de San Rafael (Fundación Ramón Menéndez Pidal, 2018), and the edition of Álbum de Venus, seguido del Arte de putear de Moratín (Visor, 2014). In addition, he takes part regulary in national and international conferences, being part of the organizing committee of the VII Congresso Internacional do Romanceiro (Lisbon, IELT – NOVA FCSH, 2023) , the IX Jornadas de Iniciación a la Investigación en Lengua y Literaturas Hispánicas (Madrid, UCM, 2021) and the VI Congreso Internacional del Romancero (Madrid, UCM, 2019). Considering their work experience in cataloguing and Digital Humanities, he is nowadays the coordinator of Archivo del Romancero Menéndez PIdal-Goyri, from Ramón Menéndez Pidal Foundation, where he collaborates as a researcher since 2014. In the end, he is also a member of the Romanceiro.pt project at the University of Évora.