In 1941 he obtained a doctorate (PhD) from Edinburgh[1] and took up a position as a soil engineer at the Macaulay Institute in Aberdeen.
Here he worked with Vivaldi Girela Vilchez, Cano Ruiz and Rausell Colon on clay minerals.
His proposers were Sir William Gammie Ogg, George Dawson Preston, Arnold Beevers, Alexander B. Stewart and James Paton.
[4] Pining for Spain, he returned there in 1964 as a researcher in the Chemistry Department of the University of Madrid under Prof Enrique Gutierrez Rios [es].
In 1967 his wanderlust continued and he moved with his family to County Waterford in southern Ireland to set up his own printing company: Volturna Press.