Miguel Pastor Coello (Valladolid, 1985) has a degree in Geography from the University of Valladolid (2008), a Master in Public Services and Social Policies (University of Salamanca, 2009) and a Master in International Cooperation for Development (University of Valladolid, 2012).

Her teaching career has been developed at the University of Valladolid. In the Faculty of Education (subject “Introduction to the current world” of the degree in Early Childhood Education. Course 2012/2013), in the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters (the subjects “Climatology” and “Hydrogeography” of the degree in Geography and Land Management. Course 2019/2020) and currently at the School of Architecture, sharing teaching in the subjects of “Urban Rehabilitation and Heritage” and “Theory of the city” of the Degree in Foundations of Architecture, as well as “Development Cooperation in the field of architecture and urbanism” of the Master in International Cooperation for Development taught by the four public universities of Castilla y León: Valladolid, Salamanca, León and Burgos.

His research work focuses on urban geography, although he has also studied heritage tourism activity. Thus, he made a stay in the Department of Human Geography at the Complutense University of Madrid (2011) with the full professor María García Hernández of the GIR “Tourism, Heritage and Development”. There she wrote the article published in 2014 in Cuadernos de Turismo of the University of Murcia entitled “Del deterioro del patrimonio a su puesta en valor e inclusión en la planificación turística: el caso de Valladolid” (ISSN: 1139-7861). He has also worked at the University of Oviedo for three years (2015, 2016 and 2017) through an agreement with the Public Society for Tourism and Cultural Management and Promotion of the Principality of Asturias, as a researcher of the Tourism Information System of Asturias (SITA).

During 2014 he obtained a S. Iberoamerica grant and carried out a 9-month research stay at the Romualdo Ardissone Geography Institute of the University of Buenos Aires to study the informal settlements or “villas” of the capital of Argentina under the supervision of professors Pablo Ciccolella (University of Buenos Aires) and Cristina Cravino (Universidad Nacional General Sarmiento). I made two more short stays there in 2016 and 2017.

After a brief period working in private enterprise, he joined as a geographer technician to the General Directorate of Cultural Heritage of the Junta de Castilla y León, as manager of the European cross-border project “Discover Duero Douro” (INTERREG) during 2020 and part of 2021.

He is currently working on his doctoral thesis on Urban heritage and housing policies in Spanish historic areas focused on the case study of Valladolid under the direction of the professor of the Department of Urban Planning and Architectural Representation of the University of Valladolid, María Castrillo Romón, and the professor of the Department of Geography of the University of Oviedo, Sergio Tomé Fernández. In September 2021 he joined the Department of Urban Planning and Architectural Representation of the University of Valladolid and shortly after he became a member of the University Institute of Urban Planning of the University of Valladolid and of the G.I.R Territorial and Urban Planning.

In this last period he has presented a communication at the X International Congress of Territorial Planning held in Valencia in November 2021 entitled “Valladolid green city, between touristification and the new normality”, he has given a paper at the bilateral seminar Valladolid-Paris 2022: Housing and popular neighborhoods: memory and heritage entitled “making social housing in a heritage building: the Old Coso of Valladolid” organized by the University Institute of Urban Planning of the University of Valladolid in October 2022. In addition to these, another together with Professor María Castrillo in the Congress of the Ibero-American Association of Urban History held at the Complutense University of Madrid, between 22 and 25 November 2022, entitled “The production of urban heritage space in the area of Platerías-Catedral (Valladolid) between 1985 and 2021” and participation in the XI International Congress of Territorial Planning held in Gijón in October 2023. Finally, he has accessed the intermediate level of Geographic Information Systems with ArcGisPro through the course of the University Institute of Urban Planning and the Buendía center of the University of Valladolid (March 2023).