He also holds a Master's degree in Geographical Information Systems (GIS) Project Management since 2004. Additionally, he was a grant holder at the National Geographic Institute of Spain, a research center belonging to the Ministry of Civil Works (Ministerio de Fomento).  During 2007 he was a visiting researcher in the Information Management Group (IMG) at the University of Manchester.

His research activities are focused on geospatial ontologies, geographical databases, information integration and disambiguation, and Linked Data. He has participated at several European (Towntology, DIGMAP and DynCoopNet) and Spanish (Geobuddies, WEBn+1, Autores 3.0, and España Virtual) projects. Within this context, he has co-authored numerous publications in books, given conferences, attended workshops, and collaborated in several R&D projects. He is also a member of the AENOR CTN_148 Geographical Information Committee, the corresponding Spanish Committee that participates in the Working Group of ISO 1950.

• Ciudad2020
• GeoLinked Data
• Red Temática Española de Linked Data
• myBigData
• WEB n+1

He has also participated in the following projects, some of which have had a large impact in the aforementioned research areas:

• España Virtual
• Autores3.0
• GeoBuddies
• IDEDES. Evaluación y potenciación del papel de las Infraestructuras de Datos Espaciales en el desarrollo sostenible en América Latina y el Caribe.
• TOWNTOLOGY: Urban Ontologies for an improved communication in Urban Civil Engineering projects.
• DIGMAP
• Convenio colaboración IGN 2007-2008
• DynCoopNet
• Infraestructura de Datos Espaciales de España (IDEE)

• Rivière or Fleuve? Modelling Multilinguality in the Hydrographical Domain. Aguado-de-Cea, G., Gómez-Pérez, A., Montiel-Ponsoda, E., Vilches-Blázquez, L.M. In 1st Workshop on the Multilingual Semantic Web. In conjuction with 19th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2010). 2010.
• Pattern-based OWL Ontology Debugging Guidelines. Corcho, O., Roussey,  C., Vilches Blázquez, L.M., Pérez, I. WOP 2009 - Workshop on Ontology Patterns, collocated with the 8th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC'09). 2009.
• A heuristic approach to generate good-quality linked data about hydrography Vilches-Blázquez, L.M., Corcho, O. In 8th International Workshop on Web Semantics (WebS'09) in conjunction with 20th edition of DEXA. 2009.
• A Catalogue of OWL Ontology AntiPatterns Roussey, C., Corcho, O., Vilches-Blázquez, L.M. In the Fifth International Conference on Knowledge Capture (K-CAP'09). 2009.
• An approach to comparing different ontologies in the context of hydrographical information. Vilches-Blázquez LM, Ramos JA, López-Pellicer FJ, Corcho O, Nogueras-Iso J. Fourth International Workshop "Information Fusion and Geographic Information Systems" (IF&GIS'09). 2009