Born 1971; studied Classics at Universidad de Los Andes, Venezuela; 2001 BA; teaching Spanish, academic publishing (Islamic Texts Society; The Matheson Trust) in the UK, specialised in Arabic-English bilingual typesetting and Comparative Religion; 2018 PhD from the Warburg Institute, University of London; presently post-doctoral research in Lisbon for the ERC Rutter Project in History of Science.