I am an Assistant Professor in the Accounting Department of the Faculty of Economics at the Universitat de València. I hold a degree in Business Administration and Management from the same university. Additionally, I have completed the Pedagogical Adaptation Course (CAP), which is equivalent to the current Master's Degree in Secondary Education Teaching at the University of Valencia.

I furthered my university education by obtaining a Master's Degree in Accounting, Auditing, and Management Control, with a specialization in Auditing, from the University of Valencia.

In the professional realm, I possess extensive knowledge and experience as an expert accountant and accounts analyst, having fulfilled these roles in both small and medium-sized companies across various sectors, as well as in cooperatives.

Within the teaching domain, I teach Accounting and Financial Statements Analysis in the Business Administration and Management and Economics programs.

Additionally, I teach accounting in the Master's Degree in Social Economy (Cooperatives and Non-Profit Organizations) at the University of Valencia. Concurrently, I actively participate in educational innovation activities through various projects awarded by the Servei de Formació Permanent i Innovació Educativa (SFPIE) of the University of Valencia. These projects aim to progressively incorporate sustainability into the academic guides of the subjects I teach.

Full Professor of Finance and Accounting in the Department of Accounting of the Faculty of Economics. PhD in Economic and Business Administration from the Universitat de València, awarded by his outstanding PhD thesis.

Regarding his research activity, he is the director of several research lines included in META (Management Reports, Transparency, Accounting Education and Reliability of Financial Information), in the Research Structure Registered. He has conducted and participated in several competitive research projects, performing transparency actions with public and private entities. He is the author of numerous articles in indexed journals (WOS, SCOPUS) and several research monographies in institutions as IVIE, CNMV or AECA. He has five six-year terms of certified research activity and one six-year term of transfer of knowledge and innovation.

As a professor, he has conducted several courses in undergraduate and postgraduate studies in the Faculty of Economics. He has leaded projects of educational innovation and is the responsible for a consolidated group of teaching innovation. He has six five-year terms of certified teaching activity.

From 2016 to 2020 he was chairperson of the Board of Directors of the Spanish Association of Accounting University Professors (ASEPUC).

From 2013 to 2021, on representation of Other Entities Representing Collective Interests, he was a General Counselor of Caixa Ontinyent. During the same period, he was a Member of the Board of Directors and a Member of its Executive and Management Committee. From 2017 to 2021, he was a member of the Investment Committee of the same financial institution. 

At the present, he is Coordinator in Doctoral Program in Accounting and Corporate Finance.

At the University of Valencia, he was Director of the Accounting Departament (2009-2012), member of the Statutes Commission (2009-2013), member of the Commission for the elaboration of the Syllabus of the degree in Business Administration and Management and of the Commission for the elaboration of the Syllabus of the official master's degree in Accounting, Auditing and Management Control, Rector's Delegate for the Management of the EDEM University Centre (2012-2014), Vice-Rector for Economics, Infrastructures and Information Technologies (2014-2018) and Vice-Rector for Economics and Infrastructures (2018-2019).

He has been a member of the Board of the Faculty of Economics and has been a member of the Senate since 2009.

Paloma Merello holds a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration and Management from the Polytechnic University of Valencia (2010). She has a Master's degree in Data Analysis Engineering (2011) and two doctorates, one in Business Administration and Management (Polytechnic University of Valencia, 2013) and an International doctorate in Statistics and Operations Research (Polytechnic University of Valencia, 2015).

She currently carries out her teaching and research activities in the Department of Accounting at the University of Valencia. She specializes in Mathematical Modeling applied to Finance and Accounting, consumption disorders and social behavior, and preventive conservation of Cultural Heritage. She has been the Principal Investigator (PI) of the project "Non-rational decision dynamics: behavioral economics in financial and non-financial information" (ECOMINFO, 2020-2025), funded by the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities.

Merello actively participates in programs related to high intellectual abilities. She is the PI of the educational innovation project "Identification and promotion of university talent" at UV since the 22-2 academic year, Coordinator of the Talent Development and Educational Innovation Group in Accounting and Sustainability (GCID23_2573293) registered in the Registry of Consolidated Teaching Innovation Groups of the University of Valencia, and a member of the GIEDAC group (code GCID23_2588436). Additionally, she is part of the DACIU university mentoring program and teaches in the Master's program in education for gifted and talented students and talent development at the University of Valencia.