Francisco Cebrián Abellán is Professor of Human Geography in the Department of Geography and Spatial Planning at the University of Castilla-La Mancha -UCLM- (Spain). For 13 years he served as Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at the UCLM. The director of the Urban-Regional Studies Research Group. The director of the Centre for Ibero-American Territorial Studies of the UCLM. The president of the Standing Committee of the Latin American Geography Group of the Spanish Association of Geography (AGE) until January 2025.
Over the past decade, he has been the principal investigator and collaborator on several national, European and regional projects, all obtained within a competitive process. He has authored more than seventy articles in indexed journals and numerous book chapters, published in both Spanish and English. He has completed numerous research stays at American and European universities and has supervised four doctoral theses. He has led the organisation of national and international seminars and scientific meetings, several of which have focused specifically on Latin American geography.
His scientific activity centers on the conceptual and methodological aspects of urbanization dynamics, urban morphology, urban planning, socio-economic structures, and urban policies, with a particular emphasis on intermediary cities. His work primarily focuses on the analysis of differentiated processes connected to the spatial realities of Latin American and Spain.