Ricardo Pichel is an assistant professor in the Department of Spanish Literature and Literary Theory at the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) and a researcher at the Instituto da Lingua Galega (University of Santiago de Compostela). His research focuses on the editing and study of medieval Iberian texts (13th–15th centuries), medieval Galician‑Portuguese language and literature, and the cultural legacy of Alfonso X, with particular interest in the Iberian Matter of Troy and its treatment across corpora — especially digital ones. He has directed two digital‑edition projects of Hispanic sources (HERES; CHARTA 3.0: 168k) and collaborates in numerous initiatives in medieval studies and the digital humanities, among them LEHIAL I–II (University of Salamanca), 7PartidasDigital I–II (University of Valladolid), the Estoria de Espanna Digital Project and TranscribeEstoria (University of Birmingham), MELE (University of Porto), DEGE (University of British Columbia, Canada), CODEA+2020 (University of Alcalá), ARANHIS (University of Lisbon), and NOSTOI (Corpus of Iberian Trojan Texts; UNED / Université de Toulouse – Jean Jaurès).He is an active member of PhiloBiblon–BITAGAP, the international CHARTA network (University of Alcalá), SMELPS (University of Porto), and several Spanish excellence networks, including CHARTA 4.0 and the Red del Libro Medieval Hispánico.