Jorge Fernández-Santos joined in 2017 the History faculty of the Rey Juan Carlos University (Madrid) where he is a member of the research group ITEM Identidad y territorio en la Edad Media. Educated at Cornell University, he later obtained a doctoral degree from the University of Cambridge. He was research fellow at the Spanish Academy in Rome and was awarded research fellowships by the Gerda Henkel Stiftung in Düsseldorf and the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness. He has published Juan Caramuel y la probable arquitectura (2014). Several publications delve on cultural exchange between Italy and Spain in the early modern period. His current research focusses on Trastámara Castile.