David Alonso García. Ph. D. for the Complutense University of Madrid, Department of Modern History where he teaches since 2004. His area of expertise includes Fiscal history and financial networks during XVIth, both in Spain and Europe. He was principal investigator in DynCoopNet network (managed by Drs. J. W. Owens and A. Crespo), supported by European Science Foundation, where the key topic attends to the role of cooperation within merchant networks. Currently he leads different research project for using GIS technologies in order to analyze Castilian tax system between 15th- 16th centuries and European cities.

He organized, with Dra. Ana Crespo, a session in XVth World Economic History Congress (Utrecht, 2009), about “Self-organizing networks and Trading Cooperation: GIS tools in the visualization of the Atlantic Economic expansion (1400- 1800)”. He has been visiting fellow in the London School of Economics (2000), Università di Roma “La Sapienza” (2001), University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA, 2006) and Università di Roma Tre (2010). He has published more than 70 scientist work, including books, articles, papers, contributions in meetings, etc.

David Alonso has also been participating in different projects of educational innovation since 2005. His ways of learning are focused on motivational aspects and cooperative methods. He has been Vice-Dean of Innovation and New Technologies between 2015-2018.

Since 2012, he has promoted entrepreneurship actions for Humanities, in cooperation with organizations such Impact Hub Madrid, Indra and Madrid Council. He was awarded with a UCM prize in entrepreneurship in 2016.

He also was promoter of Learn & Enjoy, a center of languages for implementation of new learning methodologies.