FRANCISCO JOSÉ RÓDENAS RIGLA is a social worker, PhD in Sociology, full professor at the University of Valencia and researcher at the Polibienestar Research Institute, where he coordinates the PhD programme in ‘Design, management and evaluation of public social welfare policies’. He currently teaches at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the same university, where he gives undergraduate and postgraduate courses on topics related to research in social welfare systems, social and health care, and new technologies. He is also director of the Official Master's Degree in Social Work in Health Care.

With 33 years of experience in teaching and research (four six-year research periods and one transfer period), he leads a line of research on the efficiency and quality of long-term care systems. He has published the results of his research in journals included in the WoS-Journal Citation Reports, such as Health Policy, Health and Social Care in the Community, International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Cities, Social Indicators Research and European Journal of Ageing. He is co-author of some thirty book chapters and/or books on welfare and social and health care services published by renowned publishers such as Routledge, McGraw Hill, Palgrave Macmillan and Tirant lo Blanch. He has participated in 48 European research projects, has led four competitive R&D&I projects linked to the National Research Plan, and has been part of the research team or principal investigator in more than 50 research contracts with public administrations and companies. He has carried out research fellowships in the United Kingdom (University of Kent and London School of Economics and Political Science) and in the Netherlands (VU University Amsterdam -Vrije Universiteit-).