Andrea Izquierdo holds a Ph.D. in Educational Research with “Cum-Laude” from the University of Alicante (UA), and she is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Developmental Psychology and Didactics at the same university. During her academic tenure at UA, she has been awarded a Collaboration Scholarship by the Ministry of Education and Vocational Training in the Department of Developmental Psychology and Didactics. Additionally, she has held a predoctoral training contract (UAFPU21-54). In she specializes in intervention with programs for the development of socio-emotional competencies in the educational field. She is an active member of the SOCEDU research group (VIGROB-140), and has contribute to several research projects. Presently, she is involved in the MCIN project (PID2021-125279OB-100), and one funded by the European Commission (Erasmus+, KA2; 2023-1-PL01-KA220-HED-000156880). She has presented her work at national and international conferences, and has published several articles and book chapters. Additionally, she has completed numerous courses in teaching innovation. In terms of teaching, she instructs classes on the Undergraduate Degree in Early Childhood Education and Primary Education at UA.

Teresa Pozo-Rico, PhD in Educational Research, is a senior lecturer at the University of Alicante, Department of Developmental Psychology and Didactics. She holds a six-year research period recognized by CNEAI and AVAP, a scientific productivity indicator of 4.5 points, and an h-index of 13.Her research spans Spain, Moldova, Ukraine, Romania, Argentina, and Finland, with a doctoral stay culminating in a cum laude thesis with international mention and an extraordinary award in 2019. She collaborates with universities in Cuba, Poland, Lithuania, Italy, Thailand, Finland, Colombia, Portugal, Canada, the Czech Republic, China, and Nepal.As PI, she leads three projects, including one from the Valencian Community (GV/2021/153), another from UA (GRE20-22-A), and an Erasmus+ (2023-1-PL01-KA220-HED-000156880). She is part of national (PID2021-125279OB-I00) and international projects (INSHIP 19).She teaches in various Bachelor's and Master's programs, has co-supervised six doctoral theses, and participated in UNDP's Project 110378 INEDITA. She collaborates with the Teacher Training Service and has served as Deputy Director of her department since 2021.Her research focuses on teacher training, learning strategies, educational intervention, emotional intelligence, academic performance, burnout, and e-learning environments.

Cristina Pérez Rico, PhD in Auditing and Accounting, is an assistant professor in the Department of Business Economics at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid. She has teaching and research experience in multicultural environments, with international stays in Latin America and Portugal, one of which awarded her the title of international doctor with a grade of outstanding cum laude. She teaches on several undergraduate and master's degree programmes, and co-directs a doctoral thesis. She is a member of the INEDU-EPN Educational Research Group and has participated in the United Nations Development Programme's 'INEDITA' project, as well as in the national project PID2021-125279OB-I00 with the University of Alicante. She is currently participating as PI in a project funded by the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (2024/SOLCON-135776). She has an H-index of 10 and a Research Interest Score of 206.5. At Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, she is part of the emerging teaching innovation group Real-Conta and has participated in four teaching innovation projects since 2022, obtaining the First Prize of the VII Audit Chair ASEPUC-UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA (2022) and the ASEPUC CUNEF Prize for Educational Innovation in University Teaching of Accounting and/or Auditing. Her lines of research focus on digitalisation, especially in education and employment, sustainability, gender gap, accounting and economics.

Carlos Fernández García has an International PhD in Institutional Framework and Economic Growth from the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos de Madrid (Spain). He is a doctoral assistant at the URJC in the Department of Applied Economics, Economic History, and Institutions. In addition to being a member of the teaching staff of the Master's Degree in Management of Health Institutions at the Universidad de las Américas (UDLA) in Quito. Previously, he has imparted classes in different universities in Ecuador, such as the Universidad de Cuenca, Universidad Internacional SEK (UISEK), Escuela Politécnica Nacional (EPN), and others. He has also visited the Universidad Católica Tecnológica de Barahona in the Dominican Republic. His lines of research deal with education, applied economics, and ethical aspects, among others. In addition, he has an h-index of 10 in Google Scholar. He has participated as director of the research project Economics of Complexity to model and predict economic cycles (2014 to 2016). He is a member of the education project Contextual and personal factors in teaching effectiveness and its influence on students at European level. And was a member of the project Design and evaluation of an intervention programme (EFIDUC) from 2022 to 2025. He also participates in the international project Socio-economic and Business Challenges in the Age of Digitalisation (V1568). Carlos Fernández participates as a reviewer of scientific journals of recognised international prestige.

Juan Luis Castejón Costa has been a Full Professor in the area of Developmental Psychology and Didactics at the University of Alicante since 2002. His research focuses on instructional design, the structure of intelligence and its educational implications, motivation and its relationship with academic performance, expert competence analysis, emotional intelligence and its connections to employability, as well as factors influencing academic achievement. He has supervised 35 doctoral theses and published approximately 100 articles in national and international journals, most of them indexed in JCR, with half of them in Q1 and Q2. He has been a Research Affiliate and Visiting Professor at Yale University (USA). In 1995, he served as an advisor for the IV Framework Programme for Research of the European Union. He has also been an external evaluator for the Education area of ANEP/AEI (Spanish Research Agency) and, from 2021 to 2023, was a member of the D-18 Commission of ANECA. He has received six positive teaching evaluations and has been awarded six consecutive research periods by CNEAI. Currently, he is the Director of the Research Group on Skills, Competencies, and Instruction and the Coordinator of the PhD Program in Educational Research at the University of Alicante.

Raquel Gilar Corbi is a Full Professor in the area of Developmental Psychology and Didactics at the University of Alicante. Her research interests cover various aspects of Educational Psychology, including instructional design, expert competence analysis, initial and continuous teacher training, program evaluation, socio-emotional competencies and their relationship with employability, transversal competencies in university graduates, as well as factors affecting academic performance at all educational levels. She directs the consolidated research group SOCEDU and has been the Principal Investigator in two National R&D Plan projects and in two international projects, one funded by the Secretariat of Higher Education, Science, Technology, and Innovation (SENESCYT) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and the other supported by the European Erasmus+ KA2 Project. The findings from these projects and research areas have been published in over 60 national and international journal articles. She has supervised 20 doctoral theses, all of which received the cum laude distinction. She has served as an external evaluator for the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). She has been an invited speaker at several European universities, including Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Università degli Studi Roma Tre, as well as at institutions in Ecuador, such as the Central University of Ecuador and the National Polytechnic School of Ecuador.