Francisco Marcos Marín is a Humboldt Research Award winner (Germany), an Expert of the European Research Council and a Professor Emeritus in the University of Texas at San Antonio. He holds PhDs in Sciences of Religions (2023) and in Romance Philology (1969) of the Universidad Complutense. He also earned a Certificate in Language Disorders, at the MD level, from the Faculty of Medicine of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. From 1999 to 2001, he was the academic director of the Instituto Cervantes, the national Spanish agency for Spanish Language and Culture abroad. He is an Honorary Citizen of San Antonio, Texas, an Honor Member of the Instituto Hispano-Árabe de Cultura, among other honors. Marcos Marín is co-director of ADMYTE, the Digital Archive of Spanish Manuscripts and Texts, and he directed the Written Corpora of Argentina and Chile and the Oral Corpus of Central Peninsular Spanish. He also directed the Digital Catalogue of the Foulché-Delbosc Collection in the National Library of Argentina, a joint project of Spain and Argentina. From 1991 to 1993, he directed the Area of Language Industry in the Spanish National Office for the Quincentennial. Between 1987 and 1995 he led the Madrid team of EUROTRA, the Machine Translation Project of the European Union. In 1981 he was UNESCO consultant in China. The author of more than fifty books and three hundred articles in scientific journals, he also collaborates with Latin American and European media and publishes poetry and short stories. Part of his work has been translated into Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German and Italian. He is a member of the North American Academy of the Spanish Language and the Argentine Academy of Letters.