Researcher and part-time professor at the University Rovira i Virgili (URV) and teaching collaborator of the Open University of Catalonia (UOC). He has a degree in anthropology from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (1990), a master's degree in Euro-Arab Studies from the University of Girona (1993) and a doctorate in anthropology from the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (2009). Between 1995 and 2001 he was coordinator of the migration area of the CIDOB (Barcelona Centre for International Affairs). In 2002 he joined the Secretariat of Religious Affairs of the Generalitat de Catalunya, where he worked as head of studies until 2004. As an independent consultant, he has collaborated with public and private Spanish and international institutions. He is the author of different monographs on Muslim communities in Spain.