Manuel Herrera is a PhD student at King Juan Carlos University in Madrid, where he is writing his PhD thesis on EU non-proliferation policy. He holds a Master's degree in International Security from the Institute of International Studies in Barcelona (IBEI), where he has done a final thesis on the role of the EU in Iranian nuclear negotiations.

He was research assistant for the nuclear security programme at the Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies in New Delhi, India, where he carried out research on EU external action under the Iranian nuclear programme and on Indian nuclear strategy in the context of the Indo-Pakistani conflict. He has worked in the Office of Geopolitical Analysis of the Spanish Ministry of Defence, where he has supported the work of the Ministry through the regular preparation of analytical documents on the main international and geopolitical events affecting Spain, in particular issues related to non-proliferation and arms control. He was awarded a grant from the EU Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Consortium under the "Next Generation" programme to write a research report on the state and current situation of the Union's nuclear non-proliferation policy, which was prepared at the International and Foreign Policy Institute (INCIPE) in Madrid. Finally, he was a guest researcher at the CIE-IUL between May and November 2020

He is currently a Non-Doctoral Integrated Researcher at CEI-IUL, as well as Associate Professor at the International Security and Defence Campus of the Universidad CEU de San Pablo de Sevilla. In addition, he is a regular contributor to magazines, newspapers and strategic offices where he also deals with the issues mentioned above.