He obtained his PhD in Islamic Studies (2011) and his master’s degree in Humanities (2003) and Hispanic Philology (2003) from the University of Alicante (Spain). He completed his Master of Arts degree in Islamic Studies at the University of the Philippines in 2008. He is soon to finish his Master in History and Sciences of the Music at the University of La Rioja (Spain). Winner in 2004 and 2008 of the research prize Ibn al-Abbar—the most important Spanish award in Islamic Studies—he was also granted the Premio Juan Andrés de Ensayo e Investigación en Ciencias Humanas for the study “Literatura hispanofilipina actual” (2010). Donoso has also published a critical edition of Noli me tangere (2011) and other prose writings of José Rizal (2012), as well as that of the legendary novel Los pájaros de fuego by Jesús Balmori (2010)—the first of their kind. He has worked as well with Jeannifer Zabala promoting Catalan Studies in the Philippines through the publication of the study Romanços Filipins del Regne de València (2008) and the translation into Filipino of the Valencian novel Tirante el Blanco (2010). He also edited the volume “More Hispanic than We Admit: Insights into Philippine Cultural History” (2008), which will soon be published as More Islamic than We Admit. A specialist in Islamic and Philippine Studies, he currently teaches at the University of Alicante in Spain.