Anxo Sánchez received his PhD in Theoretical Physics (with distinction) from Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, in 1991.

He then went on to a postdoctoral stay at Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA, as a Fulbright fellow. Currently, he is full professor of Applied Mathematics at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, where he founded the Interdisciplinary Group in Complex Systems (GISC) in 1996. He is also a a researcher and member of the Scientific Committee of the Institute UC3M-BS for Financial Big Data, and an associate researcher with BIFI, a research institute of Universidad de Zaragoza.