Joaquin Aldás-Manzano (PhD in Business and Economics, Universitat de València, Spain) is Professor of Marketing in the Department of Marketing, Faculty of Economics, Universitat de València, Researcher of Valencia Economics Research Institute (Ivie) and Visiting Research Fellow of the University of Glasgow (Scotland, UK) His research interest is focused on quantitative methods in marketing research and it has been published in the European Journal of Marketing, Journal of Services Marketing, Journal of Interactive Marketing, Journal of Business Ethics, Online Information Review o Tourism Management. He has co-authored with Prof. Ezequiel Uriel the book: Análisis Multivariante Aplicado [Applied Multivariate Data Analysis] (Thomson, 2005) and Análisis Multivariante Aplicado con R [Applied Multivariate Data Analysis with R] (Paraninfo, 2017).

Valencia (1964). PhD in Classical Philology (1994) and Tenured Professor of Latin Philology at the Faculty of Philology, Translation and Communication.

After a period as a secondary school teacher, he joined the University of Valencia in 1994, where he teaches on various undergraduate and postgraduate programmes and has also served as director of the Master’s Degree in Research in Languages and Literatures. He has led educational innovation projects, including the University of Valencia’s first MOOC (Incipit). He has been awarded six recognised five-year teaching periods.

As a researcher, he has participated in several competitive research projects and has been Principal Investigator on two of them. His research focuses on Latin linguistics and the tradition and reception of classical literature. He is a member of the Research Group on the Reception of Classical Literatures (GIRLC). He is the author of numerous articles in indexed journals, as well as books and book chapters. He has served on the Editorial Board of the journals Studia Philologica Valentina and Quaderns de Filologia, and has directed two international scientific conferences. He has been awarded three six-year research periods recognised by ANECA.

With regard to management responsibilities, he served as Secretary of the Department of Classical Philology and of the Faculty of Philology, Translation and Communication, and as Dean of this Faculty from 2012 to 2018. From 2018 to 2022 he was Vice-Rector for Internationalisation and Cooperation at the University of Valencia, and from 2022 until January 2026, Vice-Rector for Internationalisation and Multilingualism. He has been a member of the University Senate since 2013 and was President of the Management Council of the Language Centre from 2022 to 2024. He has been a member of the Executive Committee of CRUE–International from 2019 to 2025, serving as its Executive Secretary since 2021 till 2025. He has been a member of the Steering Committee of Xarxa Vives from 2022 to 2026. He has been a member of the Steering Committee of the Alliance of European Universities FORTHEM since 2019, a body he chaired in 2022 and 2023.

Joaquin Aldás-Manzano (PhD in Business and Economics, Universitat de València, Spain) is Professor of Marketing in the Department of Marketing, Faculty of Economics, Universitat de València, Researcher of Valencia Economics Research Institute (Ivie) and Visiting Research Fellow of the University of Glasgow (Scotland, UK) His research interest is focused on quantitative methods in marketing research and it has been published in the European Journal of Marketing, Journal of Services Marketing, Journal of Interactive Marketing, Journal of Business Ethics, Online Information Review o Tourism Management. He has co-authored with Prof. Ezequiel Uriel the book: Análisis Multivariante Aplicado [Applied Multivariate Data Analysis] (Thomson, 2005) and Análisis Multivariante Aplicado con R [Applied Multivariate Data Analysis with R] (Paraninfo, 2017).

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I obtained my degree in Biochemistry from the University of Havana (Cuba) in 1996. I began my scientific career at the Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology in Havana, where I worked on the development of transgenic plants expressing Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) toxins.

Between 1998 and 2012, I held research positions at several Spanish institutions, including the Universitat de València, the Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Agrarias and the Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas. I obtained my PhD in 2004 and carried out postdoctoral research focused on the molecular characterization of resistance mechanisms to Bt toxins and on the study of toxin–receptor interactions. During this period, I also investigated the integration of Bt-based technologies with biological control agents for the sustainable management of economically important pests within Integrated Pest Management (IPM) programmes.

In 2012, I joined Rothamsted Research (United Kingdom) as a Marie Curie Fellow. My research addressed the mode of action and selectivity of pyrethroids in economically important mites and ticks, as well as resistance mechanisms to other compounds, including flumethrin, coumaphos and amitraz. In addition, I developed sensitive molecular tools and monitoring assays for applications in IPM programmes.

In 2015, I joined the BIOTECMED Institute at the Universitat de València (Spain) as a Ramón y Cajal Research Fellow, and since 2021 I have held a position as Associate Professor. My research focuses on understanding the evolutionary and molecular mechanisms underlying pesticide resistance and identifying the determinants governing pesticide selectivity towards non-target organisms. I am also interested in the ecological and evolutionary processes that influence the long-term efficacy and sustainability of biological control programmes.