Blanca Villuendas has been a research associate in the Department of Oriental and Islamic Studies at the University of Tübingen since 2022, working on her DFG-funded project “The Triads of Ibn al-Maḥfūf: tracing the origin of Arabic geomancy and its reception in Europe and beyond”, in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Charles Burnett.

She holds a PhD in Arabic Studies from the University of Barcelona and was a doctoral candidate at the Institute of Human and Social Sciences of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) in Madrid. She also holds a Master's degree in Human Rights and Citizenship: Ethics and Politics from the University of Barcelona and a Master's degree in Religious Studies from the Complutense University of Madrid.

After the completion of her PhD and before her current position, Villuendas has worked at the University of Tübingen (Center for Islamic Theology), the University of Oxford (Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies-Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies), and the University of Barcelona (Arabic and Hebrew Studies, Arabic section).

Her research focuses on the intellectual history of the Islamic world. Her contributions are dedicated to the study of Arabic and Judeo-Arabic sources, the editing of manuscripts, and their history and transmission. She is interested in examples of global traditions that challenge religious and cultural identities. Therefore, she focuses on little-researched divinatory sciences such as dream interpretation and geomancy.