José Luis Sánchez-Hernández is Full Professor of Economic Geography at the University of Salamanca (Spain). He holds a Geography bachelor’s degree (1989) and a PhD in Geography (1994), both issued by the University of Salamanca, where he is currently Head of the Department of Geography. His research interests are socioeconomic innovation processes in the food industry, alternative economic practices, and the theoretical development of economic geography. He has been a member of the Spanish Association of Geography (SAG) since 1990, actively engaged in the Economic Geography Specialty Group, which he chairs since December 2022. He has received the PhD Award of the University of Salamanca in 1994, and the Roser Majoral Award for the best article published by a member of the SAG in a foreign scientific journal (2014, co-authored).