Jimenez-Crespo is a professor in translation and interpreting in the department of Spanish and Portuguese and the director of the department's MA and certificate in translating and interpreting. He is the author Localization in Translation (Routledge, 2024) and Translation and Web Localization (Routledge, 2013), as well as Crowdsourcing and Online Collaborative Translations: Expanding the Limits of Translation Studies (John Benjamins, 2017). He is in the editorial board of a number of Translation and Interpreting Studies journals such as Meta: Studies in Translatology, Jostrans: The Journal of Specialized Translation, Translation and Interpreting, The Journal of Digital Translation, L10Journal, InContext or Sendebar.

Jimenez-Crespo holds a PhD in Translation Studies  from the University of Granada, Spain. He also studied at the University of Glasgow in Scotland and at Moscow State Linguistic University in Russia, where he taught Spanish and translation. Before coming to Rutgers, he spent six years at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, where he taught Russian and directed the Spanish study abroad program.