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Doctor Europaeus in History (UCM, 2008), currently Professor in Early Modern History.

He was awarded a Marie-Curie predoctoral fellowship at the ICS, Universidade de Lisboa. Predoctoral fellowship Fundación Caja Madrid. Predoctoral Fellowship Fundación Calouste Gulbenkian- Portugal National Library and has held positions as postdoctoral researcher at the CIDEHUS, Universidade de Évora, and at the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, UAM, the latter as recipient of a Juan de la Cierva grant. He has taught at the Department of Modern History, UCM, and both taught and researched at various universities as awardee of multiple Erasmus mobility grants: Évora, Lisbon, Lisbon (Nova), Queen Mary, and Catania, among others.

Guillén participated in the project Inquirir da honra: comissários do Santo Ofício e das Ordens Militares em Portugal (1570-1777) funded by the Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (Government of Portugal) at the Universidade de Évora. Other research collaborations include the IULCE (UAM) and Nobilitas II, funded by the Fundación Séneca. Individual projects such as Agentes da honra en Castela e Portugal XVII-XVIII (Reis de armas e comisarios das Ordens Militares (FCT-CIDEHUS) and Los Reyes de armas de la Monarquía de España. La familia Guerra y Villegas (UAM) brought to attention the under-researched activities of kings and officers of arms in Early Modern Iberia.

Widely published in his area of interest and a leading expert in his field of research, Guillén has contributed to -and in part pioneered -the ongoing renewal of academic studies on Nobility in both Spain and Portugal, particularly so by embracing their "Iberian" dimension and by espousing interdisciplinary research. Methodologies derived from Cultural History and Intellectual History are key to his past and present research.

Research Lines: 1) Intellectual debates on Nobility in Early Modern Europe; 2) Treatises on Nobility and literature on aristocratic life and culture in Early Modern Europe; 3) Heraldry and heraldic authorities: kings of arms in Habsburg Spain and elsewhere in Europe; 4) Study of the aristocratic ethos and value system: honour, virtue and excellence; 5) Analysis of the discursive language on Nobility in Early Modernity; 6) Military orders and ennoblement in Early Modernity and 7) Study of virtuous political praxis in Early Modernity.

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