Mercè Balasch i Bernat holds a degree in Physiotherapy (2007), an Official Master's Degree in Physiotherapy in the Ageing Process: Social and Healthcare Strategies (2009), and a PhD in Physiotherapy (2014). She is currently an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Physiotherapy at the University of Valencia, affiliated with the Department of Physiotherapy. Her teaching and research activities focus on health promotion and prevention, with a special interest in chronic musculoskeletal pain. She teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses and coordinates the Musculoskeletal Conditions track of the Master’s Degree in Functional Recovery in Physiotherapy. She is also known for her work in health outreach aimed at the general public, having delivered over 40 courses on healthy lifestyle habits and the prevention of highly prevalent, low-disability conditions. She is a member of the PTinMotion research group at the University of Valencia and the Spanish Society of Physiotherapy and Pain (SEFID). She has numerous scientific publications in the field of pain and physiotherapy and has participated in funded research projects in collaboration with national and international universities.

Graduate in Physiotherapy and Master's Degree in Functional Recovery in Physiotherapy from the University of Valencia, Master's Degree in Bioethics from the Catholic University of Valencia, and Doctorate in Physiotherapy.

My two main lines of research focus on sarcopenia in older adults and physiotherapy intervention in the context of liver transplantation. I have participated in two national projects funded by the Carles III Health Institute, carried out at the Health Research Institute (IIS) of La Fe Hospital in Valencia, both focused on the context of liver transplantation.

I have 14 publications indexed in JCR journals and collaborate with two research groups: PTinMOTION Physiotherapy in Motion, a multi-specialty research group from the Department of Physiotherapy at the University of Valencia, and the Hepatology and Liver Transplantation Research Group at the IIS La Fe.