Antonio Blat’s research interests revolve around cultural interaction between Europe and East Asia. He developed this topic throughout his one-year scholarship at Waseda University, his master’s degree on late modern and contemporary China and Japan (UOC) and as a member of the research group GEINTEA (group of study: Europe-Asia interactions) at the UCM. He has published several articles about Spanish diplomacy and became a member of the historian committee for the celebration of the 400 years of Japan-Spain relations by the Japanese Embassy in Madrid. For his PhD thesis on late modern history (UV), he embraced a transnational perspective, linking the study of diplomatic and cultural interactions to global biographies. Blat undertook this approach during his fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia (Tokyo University), his participation in a research project about the narration of the self and the coordination of a conference panel about Asia and the global perspective. He has teaching experience at Universitat de València (UV), Universidad de Salamanca (USAL), Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) and Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM).