Diana Berruezo-Sánchez is an ICREA Research Professor at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and the Principal Investigator of BADEMS.

She has taught and conducted research at the University of Oxford, the University of Barcelona, and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Diana has received funding from the European Research Council, the Newberry Library, the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, The Leverhulme Trust, The John Fell Fund, and the Balliol Interdisciplinary Institute to lead research projects at both Oxford and Barcelona. She has also been awarded contracts and grants from the Spanish Ministry of Education, the Community of Madrid, Fundación Ibercaja, and Fundació Agustí Pedro i Pons. Her research stays have included the Newberry Library (Chicago), the Hispanic Society of America (New York), and the University of Seville.

Diana Berruezo-Sánchez has pioneered a line of research on the cultural legacy of the sub-Saharan diaspora in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain, earning recognition from international institutions and publishing her findings with leading academic presses and journals. Her works include the monograph Black Voices in Early Modern Spanish Literature, 1500–1750 (Oxford University Press, 2024), the co-edited volume Iberia Negra (Routledge, 2024), and an article on Gaspar, a seventeenth-century Black fencer and poet, published in Bulletin of the Comediantes (2022). She has led groups and projects on this subject, such as The Making of Blackness (2022–2025) and the research workshops Black Iberia (2022) and Black Africans’ Agency (2020).