The Festival Committee of La Copa has elected its neighbor Salvador Gil Guirado, Doctor in Geography and Territorial Planning from the University of Murcia, professor of the Department of Geography of the same University and postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Geography of the University of Murcia. Alicante, as the preacher of his Patron Saint Festivities.
Salvador Gil carried out his doctoral thesis on natural risks and climatic variability in the Region of Murcia between the year 1600 and today thanks to a predoctoral fellowship from the Seneca Foundation.
During his predoctoral period he was working in different research centers in Argentina.
Since obtaining his doctorate, he has worked as a research assistant for Yale University (USA), as a postdoctoral researcher at the Sorbonne University (France), as a professor at the Faculty of Tourism of the University of Murcia and finally as a teacher in the Department of Geography of the University of Murcia and Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Geography of the University of Alicante.
It will be presented by his colleague from the University of Murcia Alfredo Pérez Morales, professor of the Department of Geography of this University.
For María Espín, Mayor-Pedánea de La Copa "It is a pride that someone young and with a great professional career as Salvador is in charge of opening with our proclamation our 2018 Cup Festivities, even more after seeing how delighted and grateful he is I was there when I told him that the Festival Commission had thought of him, I am sure he will make a very good cry and leave the bar high. "
Source: Ayuntamiento de Bullas