Professor of Social Psychology at the Pablo de Olavide University (UPO) in Seville, where she also holds the position of General Manager of Employability and Entrepreneurship. She is a psychologist from the University of Granada and a Doctor of Social Psychology from Olavide.
Her research focuses on the study of adolescent development, gender perspective and social inclusion, with an interdisciplinary and applied approach. She has participated in 10 national and international research projects. The most recent, from the State R&D&I Plan: ‘Bullying and cyberbullying among peers and in adolescent couples: from emotional regulation to suicidal ideation’ (2020-2023). She is Principal Investigator on research contracts on ‘Positive Adolescent Development from a Gender Perspective’ and the ‘Social, Emotional and Ethical Education’ project funded by Emory University (USA). Her scientific output includes more than 30 publications in high-impact indexed journals, such as Anales de Psicología, Revista de Psicodidáctica, Psychosocial Intervention, among others, addressing psychosocial adjustment in adolescence from a gender perspective.
Within the framework of the interdisciplinary INCASI2 project, her contribution focuses on the psychosocial analysis of inequalities in adolescence, providing a gender-based, comparative and evidence-based perspective.