Santiago Castellanos (Logroño, 1971) is a Professor of Ancient History at the University of León and holds a PhD in History from the University of Salamanca. He has been a visiting scholar at the University of Oxford and the University of Notre Dame (United States), and has directed national projects on the decline of the Roman Empire and the cultural transformation of Visigothic Hispania. His work combines the rigor of the historian with the sensitivity of the storyteller. He has published in international academic journals and is the author of essays such as Los godos y la cruz, En el final de Roma, or Diocleciano y la Gran Persecución, as well as historical novels that recreate the world of Late Antiquity with exceptional human power. At TheNomba, he guides us through the origins of Europe and the spiritual roots of its history.