José María Domínguez Rodríguez earned a European Doctorate from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He was a predoctoral fellow from 2005 to 2009, during which time he carried out research at the universities of Cambridge, Palermo and Naples. In 2011 he was awarded a musicology scholarship to study at the Real Academia de España in Rome. He has been a lecturer at the University of Extremadura and a postdoctoral fellow of the ‘Juan de la Cierva’ programme at the University of La Rioja. He is currently a full professor of Musicology at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. His studies have been published in journals such as Reales Sitios and Early Music.