Alberto Bernabé Pajares (Huelva, 1946) is Professor of Greek Philology and Indo-European Linguistics at the Complutense University of Madrid, where he has taught since 1969. Renowned for his studies on Orphism, archaic Greek epic, textual criticism, and Indo-European linguistics, he is the author of over one hundred articles in Spanish and international journals, translations of Greek works and Hittite texts, and several books, among which the following stand out: From Thales to Democritus. Pre-Socratic Fragments (1988) Hieros logos. Orphic poetry about the gods, the soul, and the afterlife (2003), and, in collaboration with A. Jiménez San Cristóbal, Instructions for the afterlife: the Orphic gold plates (2001)

He has served as President of the Spanish Linguistics Society, a contributor to the CSIC's Greek-Spanish Dictionary, and Editorial Secretary of the Spanish Journal of Linguistics. President of the Center for Near Eastern Studies and Advisor to the National Agency for Evaluation and Foresight, he is also a speaker at the Rafael Altamira Summer University.