Director of the research group in International Macroeconomics, University of Murcia

Consultant referee of the Interministry Commission of Science and Technology of the Spanish Government, since 1988.

Referee for the scientific economic journals : Investigaciones Económicas, Moneda y Crédito, Revista de Economía Aplicada, Revista Española de Financiación y Contabilidad, Cuadernos de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales, Revista Asturaina de Economía, Estudios de Economía Aplicada, Recherches Economiques de Louvain and European Journal of Finance.

Expert for evaluations of the European Commission, Directorate General XII, Science, Research and Development/Joint Research Centre. (Identification number: EE1998A17052)

Member of TEPSA (Trans European Policy Studies Association), Brussels (Belgium)

Member of the Consultant Committee of the Regional Research, Technological Development, and Knowledge Plan of the Region of Murcia.

Expert Evaluator of the European Commission (DG XII) for the following programmes :

• Marie Curie fellowships Human Potential Panel (1999).
• Economic, Social and Human Sciences Evaluation Panel for Research Training Networks Activity (1999).
• Social and Human Sciences Panel of the Marie Curie Individual Fellowships Activity (since 1999).
• Marie Curie fellowships Human Potential Panel (since 2001).
• Marie Curie fellowships Human Potential Panel (since 2003).

Expert Scientist representative of the Mediterranean Spanish Regions (Cataluña, Baleares, C. Valenciana, Murcia y Andalucía) for an strategic study of interregional cooperation (Interreg Programme of the European Commission) (2000).

Consultant Member of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology. Programmes of Economic Sciences (Since 2000).

Economics Prize « Conde de Floridablanca in Economics, 2002 », Regional Government of Murcia (Spain).

President of the Scientific Commities for the Quality Evaluation in two Spanish Universities: Agencia de Calidad Universitaria de las Illes Balears, (Universitat de les Illes Balears, since 2004) and Comissió Valenciana d’Acreditació i Avaluació de la Qualitat (Universitat de València, since 2005).

Founder (1986) and President (since June 2007) of the Asociación Española de Economía y Finanzas Internacionales (AEEFI), which regularly organises the Simposium “Jornadas de Economía Internacional” in different Spanish Universities.