M. Ángeles Cerezo, Full Professor in the Department of Psychology, Clinical Psychologist. Graduated from the University of Valencia with "Extraordinary Award",  and PhD from the University of Madrid. Her post-doctorate was completed as a Fulbright scholar in the USA at the Child Behavior Institute of the University of Tennessee (UTK) with Dr. Robert Wahler, focusing on aggressive children in disadvantaged families. She created the "Aggression and Family" Research Unit (www.uv.es/agrefa). Her areas of expertise include early interaction and attachment in children; and family conflict and the development of antisocial behavior in preschool and school-aged children. Using observational methodology, she has designed coding systems for the assessment of coercive family processes (Standardized Observation Codes III - SOC III) and for early interaction (Códigos de Interacción Temprana; CITMI-R) with a version for newborns (CITMI-NB).

Dr. Cerezo has developed primary prevention programs to promote best practices for children by supporting parenting. She designed Programa Apoyo Psicológico P/Materno-Infantil (PAPMI©, 1990), a method for strengthening children's socio-emotional development and increasing the number of children with secure attachment that has benefited more than 5,000 families. PAPMI© has led to knowledge transfer to the society with the creation of the UV spin-off the Instituto Psiológico de Infancia y Familia (IPINFA), in 2007; https://www.ipinfa.com/papmi/

She has been Visiting Professor at University College Dublin (UCD)  and Trinity College (TCD) invited by Prof. Sheila Green, a Research Scholar in Residence at the Center for the Study of Family Violence at Northern University of Illinois, invited by Prof. Joel Milner, and, in 2019, a Visiting Scholar at Child & Family Institute (University of Oregon) invited by Prof. Tom Dishion, and at the Lamarsh Center for Child and Youth Research at York University in Toronto, Canada, invited by Prof. Debra Pepler.

Dr. Cerezo has participated in projects in the United States, Europe (BIO-MED and Daphne), and Spain, with regional governments and institutions, and in expert groups both domestically and internationally on issues related to childhood and parenting. She is the Principal Investigator for six National Plan projects. Senior Associate Editor of Child Abuse and Neglect, the prestigious journal of the International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (ISPCAN), from 2005 to 2010.

Her courses in Master's Degrees relate with child abuse and its consequences (Psychological Intervention in Social Settings), psychological processes in domestic violence (Law and Gender-based Violence), socio-emotional assessment in early interaction (Health Psychology), and early interaction in socio-emotional development (Postgraduate Program in Pediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynecology - Child Development and Early Intervention). In the Psychology degree program, she teaches Psychology of Delinquency (last year optional course). Her teaching career spans seven five-year periods, all of which have received positive evaluations.

Professor Cerezo's research program connects theory with practice: practice generating greater knowledge and improving, in turn, interventions. She is the author of more than one hundred articles in national and international journals. She focuses her research activity on early interaction predictors of child attachment quality based on dynamic analysis and the development of child mental health promotion programs. The quality of her research work has been recognized by Her work has been recognized by the National Agency for Quality Assessment and Accreditation of Spain (ANECA) with 6 consecutive six-year periods of scientific productivity, including the Knowledge Transfer award. In 2020, she published for parents and professionals: Si los bebés hablaran: su asombroso mundo emocional (Pirámide) and the English version If Babies Could Talk: A Window into Their Amazing Emotional Life (Austin Macauley) 

Ana María D’Ocon Giménez holds a Bachelor’s degree (1989) and a PhD (1994) in Psychology from the University of Valencia. She is currently an Associate Professor and Vice-Dean of Studies at the Faculty of Psychology and Speech Therapy. She teaches both in the Psychology and Speech Therapy undergraduate programs, as well as in the Master’s Degree in Psychological Intervention in Social Contexts at the University of Valencia. Her research interests over the years have focused on socialization processes within the family context, early caregiver–child interaction, parental sensitivity, attachment styles, the development of children’s self-regulation, and early communication.

Assistant Professor in the Department of Basic Psychology at the University of Valencia and researcher in the field of cognitive psychology. Her research has mainly focused on orthographic processing and visual word recognition, with special attention to the mechanisms of orthographic invariance (position, rotation, and letter similarity). In parallel, she has also developed research lines in the field of misinformation processing, studying the cognitive and emotional factors that influence the credibility and spread of fake news.

Her teaching activity covers courses in the Department of Basic Psychology, where she combines a theoretical approach with practical activities aimed at fostering critical thinking, creativity, and reflection on human cognition. In addition, she participates in educational innovation projects focused on scientific communication and the use of creative formats in university teaching.

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Pablo Ribes Guardiola is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Basic Psychology at the University of Valencia. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology (2011) and a PhD in Psychology (2017) from the University Jaume I of Castelló, within the Psychopathology, Health and Neuropsychology doctoral program.

His main research interests lie in the field of clinical neuroscience. His work focuses on the application of multidomain assessment protocols—integrating self-report measures, cognitive task performance, and peripheral and central psychophysiological indices—to the study of psychopathy and other problems within the externalizing spectrum of psychopathology, with the goal of understanding them in terms of individual differences in threat sensitivity, affiliative capacity, and inhibitory control.

He has held several predoctoral (FPI; Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness; 2012–2016) and postdoctoral fellowships (APOSTD; Generalitat Valenciana and European Social Fund [2018–2020]; PICD-UJI; University Jaume I [2021–2024]) aimed at developing his research career. During these periods, he also completed research stays at internationally recognized centers, including the Clinical Neuroscience Lab (Department of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, USA; 2014 and 2019–2020) and the Brain, Affect and Cognition Group (Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain; 2024).

He has published articles in  international journals in the fields of experimental psychology, psychophysiology, and clinical psychology, and has been awarded one positively evaluated research period (CNEAI). In addition, he has participated in five competitive research projects, acting as principal investigator in one of them: PSI2011-22559 (MICINN), PSI2015-66798-P (MINECO/FEDER), PID2019-104522GB-I00 (MICINN), P1·1B2013-12 (University Jaume I), and UJI-2023-26 (University Jaume I).

He has also presented numerous papers at national and international conferences, and is an active member of several scientific societies in the fields of psychophysiology, cognitive and affective neuroscience, and individual differences: Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR), Spanish Society of Psychophysiology and Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (SEPNECA), and Ibero-American Association for Research on Individual Differences (AIIDI).

During his pre- and postdoctoral training, he has taught courses in Basic Psychology at the Department of Basic, Clinical and Psychobiological Psychology at the University Jaume I, as well as at the Department of Health Psychology at the University of Alicante. His teaching performance has received overall positive evaluations according to the quality assurance procedures of the University Jaume I (DOCENTIA-UJI program) and the University of Alicante.

Vicent Rosell completed his degree in Psychology in 1987. Since then, both his academic training and research have focused on the study of language and speech, especially in people with neurological disorders. Before defending his doctoral thesis, he completed several master's degrees and specialised in courses related to language disorders. He had already published two books: one on language assessment at early ages (1991) and another on language stimulation in early childhood education (1993), several articles published in magazines and newspapers and presented numerous posters and oral communications at conferences and seminars on neurology, speech therapy, and psychology. Most of his contributions focused on the study of language, speech, and voice in adults and children with linguistic and communicative deficits. In 2005, he defended his doctoral thesis, "Use of the verb in patients with predominantly motor aphasia." Her involvement in clinical linguistics is reflected in her participation as a member of the research team in projects under the Ministry of Education's National R&D&I Plan. Within the framework of these projects, numerous papers have been presented at national and international conferences and seminars on clinical linguistics, speech therapy, neurology, and psychology. Several books, book chapters, and scientific articles have been published, including those in the Journal of Neurolinguistics, Aphasiology, Journal of Communication Disorders, Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, among others. He has co-supervised several doctoral theses, all of them focused on the study of language, speech, and voice in people with language deficits. Since 2015, he has directed the Speech Therapy Clinic of the Lluís Alcanyís Foundation - University of Valencia.

Ana M. Tur Porcar has a PhD in Psychology and is Full Professor at the University of Valencia. Extraordinary Doctorate Award 2005. She is part of the research team of Psychological Processes and Prosocial Behavior. She is the Director of the Master in Psychology and Family Management at the University of Valencia (27st edition).  She has four six-year positions with ANECA (3 research and 1 transfer). 

Her research interest focuses on the family and personal protection and vulnerability factors in childhood and adolescence (emotional and behavioral factors, prosociality, aggressiveness, parenting, etc.), as well as entrepreneurship in adolescence.

She has published 90 articles in international and national scientific journals on research fields related with parenting and family, personal empowerment, prosocial behavior, empathy, prosocial moral development, aggression, emotional instability, etc. in international journals such as Journal of Psychology, Plos One, Nurse Education Today, Psychosocial Intervention, Personality and Individual Differences, Journal of Adolescence, International Journal of Behavioral Development, Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, The Spanish Journal of Psychology, Psychological Report, Psicothema, Annals of Psychology, Psychology & Marketing, Quality & Quantity, or The Journal of Genetic Psychology...

She has been part of the research team of 44 R&D research projects, obtained in international, national and regional public calls (Spanish Agency of International Cooperation for Development, Ministry of Science and Technology, Ministry of Education and Science, Ministry of Science and Innovation, Department of Culture, Education and Science, Department of Social Welfare of the Generalitat Valenciana, etc.). Some of those research projects are listed as excellent (Prometheus I, Prometheus II and ISIC Network of Excellence).

She has presented 175 communications at international and national conferences held in the field of scientific psychology (Seattle, Washington, USA, Cape Town, South Africa, Brasilia, Brazil, Stockholm, Sweden, Istanbul, Turkey, Austin, Texas, USA Paris, France, Beijing, China, Milan, Italy, London, Great Britain, Amsterdam, Holland, etc.).

She has published more than 40 book chapters and books on the same topics, in national and international editorials on the education of emotions, parenting, coexistence in intercultural environments, protection and vulnerability in adoption, or gender violence.

In the management field, she has been Academic Secretary of the Faculty of Psychology of the Universitat de València, Academic Secretary of the Higher Conservatory of Dance of Valencia, Director of Educational Psychological Services of the Generalitat Valenciana and Superior Technician of the Department of Culture and Education of the Generalitat Valencia.