Antonio López Vega (Madrid, 1978) is a full-time professor in the Department of General Studies at ITAM. During his teaching career, he was Professor of Contemporary History at the Complutense University of Madrid until the 2024-2025 academic year and director of the Ortega y Gasset-Marañón University Research Institute, affiliated with this university, between 2019 and 2025.

Extraordinary Bachelor's Degree Award (2001) and Doctorate from the Complutense University with a PhD entitled “Gregorio Marañón: Intellectual Biography” (2007), supervised by Juan Pablo Fusi, which is the basis for his biography Gregorio Marañón. Radiografía de un liberal (Taurus, 2011), chosen as the best non-fiction book by the critics of El Cultural magazine, then linked to the newspaper El Mundo and, today, to El Español.

Throughout his teaching career, he has led various educational innovation projects as Principal Investigator or as a team member, publishing some of his findings in prestigious journals in this field, such as Peter Lang and Octaedro. He was also an Associate Professor at Carlos III University in Madrid and a Visiting Professor at numerous international universities, as well as at ITAM and the University of Guadalajara or the Oaxaca State University System in Mexico. Noteworthy among others are the Catholic University of Argentina and the University of the Province of Buenos Aires, in the same country; the University of San Martín de Porres and the University of Santo Toribio de Mogrovejo in Peru; and the University of Oxford in the UK, where, as a Visiting Scholar Senior Member Associated with St. Antony's College, he worked on his monograph 1914: The Year That Changed History (Taurus, 2014).

His written work highlights his focus on biography, the history of intellectuals, liberalism, science and medicine, democracy and democratic values in the contemporary world, and the history of Spanish-speaking countries. Throughout 2025, he will publish Spanish Expressionism in Three Acts: Goya, Gutiérrez Solana, Rando, edited by La Fábrica (as well as its translation into English and German).

In his research career, he has been recognized with three six-year research periods by the National Agency for Quality Assessment and Accreditation (ANECA) of the Ministry of Universities of Spain and has served as Principal Investigator or as a member of the research team in various national projects from 2006 to the present, participating in the project "Scientific diplomacy and supranational integration projects: Spain, France, the United States, and their projection in Latin America" (PID2024-157796NB-I00, Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, 2025-2029). Among the results of these projects, it is worth highlighting those he directed, which resulted in the monographs he edited together with Juan Pablo Fusi: Miradas. El género biográfico en español (Cinca, 2023); Diálogos Atlánticos. Cultura y ciencia en España y América en el siglo XX (Galaxia Gutenberg, 2021).

He has supervised nearly ten PhD and, in addition to the PhD program in History and Archaeology and Contemporary History at the Complutense University of Madrid, he is associated with the PhD programs in Literary Tradition, Written Culture, and Digital Humanities and Applied Artificial Intelligence at the University of Salamanca, as well as the PhD program in Government and Public Administration at the Menéndez Pelayo International University (UIMP). Among his dozens of book chapters and articles in academic journals included in outstanding quality indexes—where he has also edited some monographs—those published in journals such as Asclepio, Arbor, Revista de Occidente, Porta Linguarum, Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos, and the Boletín de la Real Academia Nacional de Medicina stand out.

He was also editor of Circunstancia. Revista de Ciencias Sociales del Instituto Universitario de Investigación José Ortega y Gasset (February 2009-May 2015), member of the Editorial Board of Revista CIAN-Revista de Historia de las Universidades (2013-2023), of the Anuario Mexicano de Asuntos Globales (2022-present), and Revista de Cuadernos de la Guardia Civil, and is editorial director for Latin America at Ediciones Cinca, where he also directs the collections “Biografía, pensamiento e historia” (2021-present) and “Colección Estudios Latinoamericanos” (2024-present). He has also given nearly a hundred lectures and participated in international conferences and symposiums at such prestigious forums as Harvard University, the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, Oxford University, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the Royal National Academy of Medicine of Spain, and the Guadalajara International Book Fair.

His research work was recognized with the Julián Marías Prize for Humanities from the Community of Madrid (under-40 category, 2012) and, among other distinctions, he is an honorary professor at the Santo Toribio de Mogrovejo and San Martín de Porres Universities in Peru and a corresponding member of the Peruvian Historical Society. He has been a member of the Teaching Evaluation Committee of the Agency for Quality Assurance in the University System of Castile and León since 2022. He is also an honorary member of EvalUE, Evaluateurs & experts de L'Union Européene.

Among other professional activities, it is also worth noting that López Vega has been curator of exhibitions at the National Library of Spain and is international consultant for Metroscopia (since 2014) - Institute for Social and Opinion Studies-, and an ex officio member of the Observatory on Judicial Independence and Electoral Integrity of the Global Network for Electoral Justice.

In the field of civil society, he has been secretary and patron of the Fundación Cultura en Vena (Culture in Veins Foundation) since its inception (Innsocial Málaga Award 2025, among others); director for Latin America of the Ortega-Marañón Foundation (2025); member of the Advisory Board of Puy Du Fou – Spain (some of whose shows include: “El sueño de Toledo,” “El último cantar,” and “A Pluma y Espada” have been awarded the IAAPA Brass Ring Award in 2021, 2022, and 2023), secretary of the Advisory Board and president of the International Network Council for Latin America of the Gaspar Casal Foundation, and scientific advisor to the Jorge Rando Museum in Málaga.

In addition, López has published articles in Spain's leading newspapers, such as El País, ABC, El Mundo, La Razón, among others, as well as in others such as Mexico's Excelsior. The section “Intellectuals and Spain” in the newspaper El Mundo highlighted him as one of the most relevant figures in the world of thought in Spain today.