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ALVENTOSA DEL RIO, JOSEFINA

ALVENTOSA DEL RIO, JOSEFINA

PDI-Catedratic/a d'Universitat
ATIENZA NAVARRO, MARIA LUISA

ATIENZA NAVARRO, MARIA LUISA

PDI-Catedratic/a d'Universitat
Biography
 

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AVIÑO BELENGUER, DAVID

AVIÑO BELENGUER, DAVID

PDI-Ajudant Doctor/A
Biography
 

David Aviñó Belenguer has a Law Degree (2004) and a Doctor in Law -Civil- (2014) from the University of Valencia (UV). Likewise, he has a Diploma in Management and Public Administration (2011) from the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV).

Currently, he is an Assistant Professor at the University of Valencia (Civil Law). Participates as a member in research groups and research projects related to the study of European and digital private law and personal data protection. He also participates in teaching innovation groups and projects.

His research work is carried out in some branches of civil law: tort law, data protection, consumer law, real estate law, alternative dispute resolution, etc.; and in some branches of administrative law, such as urban planning and the environment, expropriations and property liability.

He has also carried out teaching stays (University of Toulouse, 2024) and research stays at the University of Strasbourg (2023, SAGE Research Center) and at the University of Cantabria (2024, Santander Financial Institute, "Law and Innovation" Group).

BADENAS BOLDO, JAVIER

BADENAS BOLDO, JAVIER

PDI-Ajudant Doctor/A

Edifici Departamental Occidental Despacho 2D03 Avda. dels Tarongers, s/n 46022 València

21541

javier.badenas@uv.es

Biography
 

Assistant Professor of Civil Law (accredited as Associate Professor) and Visiting Professor at the Università degli Studi di Firenze.

He holds a PhD in Law from the Universities of Bologna and Jaume I of Castellón. He also obtained his Law Degree from Universitat Jaume I and completed the Master’s Degree in Access to the Legal Profession and the Master’s Degree in Business Law, specializing in Commercial Law, at the University of Valencia.

He has carried out several research stays at prestigious international academic institutions, including the Università degli Studi di Firenze, Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna, and Sapienza Università di Roma. He has also participated as a speaker in national and international conferences and seminars and has been a member of various scientific organizing committees.

He is the author of several articles published in specialized legal journals, book chapters in collective works, and a monograph. His main research interests focus on distribution contracts and Consumer Law.

BELTRAN MARTINEZ, MARIA BEATRIZ

BELTRAN MARTINEZ, MARIA BEATRIZ

PDI-Associat/Da Universitari/A
BLASCO GASCO, FRANCISCO

BLASCO GASCO, FRANCISCO

PDI-Catedratic/a d'Universitat
BUENO BIOT, ALVARO

BUENO BIOT, ALVARO

PDI-Ajudant Doctor/A

Edifici Departamental Occidental Despacho 2E01 Avda. dels Tarongers, s/n 46022 València

alvaro.bueno@uv.es

Biography
 

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CAMARASA GIMENO, MARIA ESTHER

CAMARASA GIMENO, MARIA ESTHER

PDI-Associat/Da Universitari/A
CARDOS ELENA, JOSE MARIA

CARDOS ELENA, JOSE MARIA

PDI-Ajudant Doctor/A

Facultat de Dret. Departament de Dret Civil. Edifici Departamental Occidental, 2a planta, despatx 2D10. Avinguda dels Tarongers s/n. 46022 València

21817

jose.maria.cardos@uv.es

Biography
 

Graduate in Law from the University of Valencia (2008). Extraordinary Bachelor's Award. Degree in Political Science and Administration from the University of Valencia (2008). Extraordinary Bachelor's Award. Special mention to the academic performance of the Generalitat Valenciana (2007/2008 academic year). XIII Manuel Broseta Pont University Legal Studies Prize, convened by the Professor Manuel Broseta Foundation, with the sponsorship of the Royal Valencian Academy of Jurisprudence and Legislation (2009). Doctor of Law from the University of Valencia (2025). Excellent cum laude unanimously. Specialization Diploma in Valencian Civil Law by the University of Valencia (2025).

Practicing lawyer, specialized in Property Law, between 2008 and 2025.

Author of the monograph The compulsory donation and its legal regime,Editorial Reus, 2025.

Author of several book chapters in renowned publishing houses, among which stand out: "The de facto repeal of art. 1056 of the Spanish Civil Code. Criticism of the jurisprudential and registry interpretation relative to the partition of the inheritance made by the testator", in Los retos del Derecho de Sucesiones en Europa, Tirant lo Blanch, Valencia, 2026, pp. 385-406; "The management of the profit society", in GPS Familia, Tirant lo Blanch, 2026, pp. 515-545; "Acceptance of donations by minors. Between the autonomy of the minor and the duty of the parents to protect their superior interest", in The personal and patrimonial situation of the minor before the law today, Colex, Madrid, 2025, pp. 572-611; "Comments on articles 435 to 449", in Comments on the Bolivian Civil Code. Book three: Of the obligations. Part one: Of the obligations in general,Tirant lo Blanch, 2025, pp. 655-735; "Atypical claims for payment of compensation for domestic work under article 1438 CC", in Entre persona y familia, Reus, 2024, pp. 665-683; and "The protection of the interests of the minor donor", in Age as a factor of vulnerability: present and future challenges in the field of private law, Aranzadi, 2023, pp. 431-446.

Author of several research articles in legal journals of recognized prestige and impact, among which stand out: "The mandatory donation in Spanish jurisprudence", in Actualidad Jurídica Iberoamericana, 22, 2025, pp. 416-461; "The form of atypical free contracts: the border between exigible obligations and duties of conscience", in Revista Boliviana de Derecho, 39, 2025, pp. 168-199; "The revocation of donations for the imputation of crimes to the donor. An interpretative proposal of article 648.2.º CC", in Revista de Derecho Patrimonial, 65, 2024; "The translational effectiveness of the donation in the Civil Code in the light of the historical and legislative antecedents", in Civil Law Yearbook, 2024, pp. 1181-1284; "Quantificación y pago de la compensación por trabajo domestico del article 1438 CC in the jurisprudence of the Supreme Court", in Revista Boliviana de Derecho, 37, 2024, pp. 132-159; "Notes on the utility of donation-partition and bilateral partition in Common Civil Law", in Actualidad Jurídica Iberoamericana, 20 extra, 2024, pp. 288-319; and "Free distributions of property in the framework of marital separations", in Actualidad Jurídica Iberoamericana, 17 extra, 2023, pp. 1546-1573.

He has taught (in Valencian and Spanish)in numerous subjects of Civil Law in various degrees at the University of Valencia: Degree in Law, Degree in Criminology, Degree in Labor Relations and Human Resources, Degree in Tourism, Double Degree in Law and Political Science and Public Administration, Double Degree in Law and Economics, Master's Degree in Advocacy, Master's Degree in Advocacy and Procuring, Master's Degree in Business Law (Commercial Labor and Tax Advisory) and Master's Degree in Mediation, Arbitration and Conflict Management in Private Law.

He is currently a PhD Assistant Professor in the Civil Law Department of the University of Valencia.

CARRION VIDAL, MARIA DE LA ALMUDENA

CARRION VIDAL, MARIA DE LA ALMUDENA

PDI-Ajudant Doctor/A
Biography
 
Almudena Carrión Vidal has a Bachelor's degree and Doctorate in Law from the University of Valencia (EG).  She is an Assistant Professor of Civil Law at the same university and a Tutor Professor of Civil Law at UNED València (Centre Francisco Tomás i Valent).

 
CASTILLO MARTINEZ, CAROLINA

CASTILLO MARTINEZ, CAROLINA

PDI-Catedratic/a d'Universitat
Biography
 

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CEBRIAN BELTRAN, SELENA JULIA

CEBRIAN BELTRAN, SELENA JULIA

PDI-Substitut/A
CHAPARRO MATAMOROS, PEDRO

CHAPARRO MATAMOROS, PEDRO

PDI-Titular d'Universitat
CLEMENTE MEORO, MARIO E

CLEMENTE MEORO, MARIO E

PDI-Catedratic/a d'Universitat

Avda. de los Naranjos s/n 46022 Valencia Despacho 2F11

(9638) 28115

mario.clemente@uv.es

COBAS COBIELLA, MARIA ELENA

COBAS COBIELLA, MARIA ELENA

PDI-Titular d'Universitat

(9638) 28857

m.elena.cobas@uv.es

ESPARZA OLCINA, CARLOS

ESPARZA OLCINA, CARLOS

PDI-Associat/Da Universitari/A
ESPLUGUES GARCIA, JULIO

ESPLUGUES GARCIA, JULIO

PI-Invest Formacio Atraccio Talent
Biography
 

He holds Bachelor’s Degrees in Law and in Business Administration from the University of Valencia, both awarded with Extraordinary Prizes. His academic work focuses on Civil Law, particularly on the law of obligations, contract theory, and tort law.

He earned his PhD in Law from the Universities of Valencia and Bologna, receiving the distinction of sobresaliente cum laude, with a dissertation entitled La determinación del daño contractual resarcible en el Código Civil español, devoted to the legal criteria for the quantification of contractual loss.

His publications address contemporary issues in contract law and tort law, with particular interest in the scope of compensable damage and the development of modern private law. He teaches courses on obligations, contracts, and tort law.

ESTRUCH ESTRUCH, JESUS

ESTRUCH ESTRUCH, JESUS

PDI-Catedratic/a d'Universitat
FERNANDEZ GIMENO, JOSE PASCUAL

FERNANDEZ GIMENO, JOSE PASCUAL

PDI-Prof. Permanent Laboral Ppl
GIUNTA SANTIMOTEO, GRISEL

GIUNTA SANTIMOTEO, GRISEL

PDI-Associat/Da Universitari/A
GRANJO ORTIZ, ANIA

GRANJO ORTIZ, ANIA

PDI-Associat/Da Universitat
GUILLEN CATALAN, RAQUEL

GUILLEN CATALAN, RAQUEL

PDI-Titular d'UniversitatSecretari/a de Departament
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LLACER BOSBACH, ANA MARIA

LLACER BOSBACH, ANA MARIA

PDI-Associat/Da Universitari/A
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MARCO VILA, PATRICIA

MARCO VILA, PATRICIA

PDI-Associat/Da Universitari/A
MARTINEZ VELENCOSO, LUZ MARIA

MARTINEZ VELENCOSO, LUZ MARIA

PDI-Catedratic/a d'Universitat
MAS BADIA, MARIA DOLORES

MAS BADIA, MARIA DOLORES

PDI-Catedratic/a d'Universitat
Biography
 

Professor of Civil Law at the University of Valencia.

She has been awarded several prizes: Prize for legal studies of the Real Academia Valenciana de Jurisprudencia y Legislación (2020), for the monograph entitled “Sistemas privados de información crediticia. Nueva regulación entre la protección de datos y el crédito responsable”, Tirant Lo Blanch, 2021. Savis en Dret Award (2012), granted by the Universitat de València and the Generalitat Valenciana, as coordinator and co-author of the work "El régimen económico matrimonial de la Comunidad Valenciana", Tecnos, 2010. Award for Teaching Excellence, from the Social Council of the University of Valencia and the Department of Education, Research, Culture and Sport of the Generalitat Valenciana (2016).

She is author of the books: ¿Una habitación propia? Arrendamiento y propiedad en la ley por el derecho a la vivienda  (Marcial Pons, Madrid, 2024). Sistemas privados de información crediticia. Nueva regulación entre la protección de datos y el crédito responsable (Tirant Lo Blanch, Valencia, 2021). Problemas de valoración y precio en las viviendas de protección oficial (Tirant Lo Blanch, Valencia, 2014), La tercería de dominio ante el embargo de bienes gananciales (Tirant Lo Blanch, Valencia, 2009), La revisión judicial de las cláusulas penales (Tirant Lo Blanch, Valencia, 1995) and El nuevo régimen jurídico de las aguas (Tirant Lo Blanch, Valencia, 1993). He has also written more than 100 articles and contributions to collective books in prestigious journals and publishing houses on subjects related to civil law (credit information systems, real estate credit, housing, insurance contracts, data protection, matrimonial property law, valencian civil law, leases, agrarian law, property, inheritance, mediation, etc.). His main lines of research include those related to the economic regime of marriage, housing, credit guarantees, data protection, Valencian civil law and agricultural law.

Throughout her career as a researcher, she has taken part in numerous R&D projects funded by the Ministry of Education and the Generalitat Valenciana on property law, banking contracts, legal persons, Valencian and European private law, insurance contracts and corporate social responsibility. Currently, she is Director of the UV Registered Research Group "Wellfare, Insurance and Pensions" (WIP) -GIUV2017-399-. She participates in the Editorial Board and as an external evaluator of several legal journals.

She has been a post-doctoral researcher at the following universities: King's College (London); University of London. Institute of Advanced Legal Studies; Università degli Studi di Firenze; Università "La Sapienza" (Rome); Universidad Autónoma de Santiago de Chile.

Since the beginning of her activity she has been actively involved in educational innovation tasks, directing teaching innovation projects continuously since the 2012-2013 academic year. She is currently Director of the UV's Registered Consolidated Teaching Innovation Group GCID23_2577597 (Legal manuals and teaching materials 3.0).

She has also collaborated as coordinator and author in numerous teaching publications, organising and directing educational innovation conferences, and in coordination and management positions in the European Higher Education Area.

He has taught training courses for the specialization of judges and magistrates, civil administration officials, insurance mediators and lawyers. Consultant for the UOC (Open University of Catalonia) and guest lecturer in the doctoral program of the Autonomous University of Chile.

In the field of management, she has been Vice-Dean for Quality, Training, Culture and Social Projection of the Faculty of Law of the University of Valencia, from March 2018 to the present, and an elected member of the Board of the Faculty of Law, representing the Permanent Teaching Staff, since 2014. Previously, she was Secretary of the Master's Degree in Law Practice UVEG-ICAV, member of the CCA of the Master's Degree in Mediation, Arbitration and Conflict Management in Private Law and Secretary of the Department of Civil Law, among other positions.

She was a member, as a jurist of recognised prestige, of the Advisory Commission on Valencian Civil Law of the Generalitat Valenciana (DOGV Núm. 8397, de 4/10/2018).

Non-practicing Lawyer of the Illustrious Bar Association of Valencia since March 14, 2011. Arbitrator of the Consumer Arbitration Board of the Generalitat Valenciana.

Orcid: https://orcid.org/my-orcid?orcid=0000-0002-6976-7053

MECO TEBAR, FABIOLA MARIA

MECO TEBAR, FABIOLA MARIA

PDI-Prof. Permanent Laboral PplVicedega/Vicedegana / Vicedirector/a Ets

Departamento de Derecho Civil Facultad de Derecho Avenida de los Naranjos s/n 46022 València

(9616) 25161

fabiola.meco@uv.es

Biography
 

She is currently Professor of Civil Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Valencia and Collaborating Professor of Civil Law at the Open University of Catalonia. Graduate and doctor at the University of Valencia with the thesis The faculty of building on developable land defended on October 30, 2002.

His lines of research focus on personal law, especially childhood and the elderly, and family and property, in which subjects he has published numerous articles and made various collaborations for teaching manuals, collective books, magazines and publishers of recognized prestige. It has obtained recognition by ANECA for a six-year period of current research.

In the field of management, she has been Vice-Dean of Social Policy and Participation since 2024 and President of the Equality Commission and the Sustainability Commission of the Faculty of Law of the University of Valencia, and a member of the Faculty of the University of Valencia since 2025.

He has taught undergraduate courses at three universities (Universidad Cardenal Herrera CEU and UOC). At the University of Valencia he has taught undergraduate teaching in different degrees and in different subjects; also in postgraduate studies, both in Spain in the Master of Law (Practice in Family and Inheritance Law), the University Master of Constitutional Law (Constitutional typologies of property rights and the social function of property) or the University Expert Diploma in Children's and Adolescents' Rights: Contexts of application and approach to Rights, of which she was also co-director together with Professor Jorge Cardona Llorens; as well as internationally in the Master of Constitutional Law at the Autonomous University of Honduras (Constitutional typologies of property law and social functionof the property).

He has participated in numerous teaching innovation projects and is currently co-PI of the Consolidated Group, previously a project, together with Professor Dolores Mas Badía, called Legal and Teaching Materials 3.0. Its results are available in free access at:   https://www.uv.es/uvdocencia-juridica/ca/uvdocencia-juridica.html

He has participated in several research projects (R&D) financed by the Ministry, the Generalitat Valencia, or private institutions with principal researchers from different Spanish universities. He is part of two research groups at the University of Valencia: Law, rights and older people (DyPM- GIUV2023-578) and Well-being, Insurance and Pensions (WIP- GIUV2017-399). She participates as an external evaluator of doctrinal articles for Spanish and foreign legal journals. He has carried out various research stays in international reference centers in legal matters such as La Sapienza (Rome) or Panthéon-Assas (Paris II).

In the field of knowledge transfer, it has collaborated with HelpAge in the preparation of different Reports on: The right to care for the elderly or The very personal rights and privacy of the elderly, which are available openly at: https://www.helpage.es/informes-sobre-edadismo/; He also collaborated in the development of the State Service for Care of the Elderly (https://www.helpage.es/seam/). Likewise, he participated in the preparation of the Study on the processes of deinstitutionalization and transition towards personalized and community support models for population groups in vulnerable situations (childhood and adolescence, older people, people with disabilities and homeless people) prepared on behalf of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Agenda2030 in Spain. Available openly at: https://estudiodesinstitucionalizacion.gob.es/

Awarded in the I Edition of the CERMI Awards. Institutional Category 3: Impact of the UN Convention on Persons with Disabilities in 2019.

She has had experience in the professional field, working as a practicing lawyer, in the family specialty (2004-2015); or as Manager of the CEPS Foundation (2002-2013). She has held public representation tasks at the political level as a deputy in the IX legislature of the Valencian Cortes (2015-2019) during which she held the position of parliamentary spokesperson attached to the Trustee.

MONFORT FERRERO, MARIA JESUS

MONFORT FERRERO, MARIA JESUS

PDI-Titular d'Universitat
MONTANCHEZ RAMOS, MANUEL

MONTANCHEZ RAMOS, MANUEL

PDI-Associat/Da Universitari/A
MONTES RODRIGUEZ, MARIA PILAR

MONTES RODRIGUEZ, MARIA PILAR

PDI-Titular d'UniversitatCoordinador/a Curs
MUÑOZ RODRIGO, GONZALO

MUÑOZ RODRIGO, GONZALO

PDI-Ajudant Doctor/A

(9616) 25647

gonzalo.munoz@uv.es

Biography
 

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MURUAGA HERRERO, PABLO

MURUAGA HERRERO, PABLO

PDI-Ajudant Doctor/ASecretari/a d' Institut Universitari

Despacho 2F02

21545

pablo.muruaga@uv.es

Biography
 

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ORDUÑA MORENO, FRANCISCO JAVIER

ORDUÑA MORENO, FRANCISCO JAVIER

PDI-Catedratic/a d'Universitat
PEREZ MIRALLES, JOSE ARTURO

PEREZ MIRALLES, JOSE ARTURO

PDI-Associat/Da Universitari/A
PLAZA PENADES, JAVIER

PLAZA PENADES, JAVIER

PDI-Catedratic/a d'UniversitatDirector/a Titulacio Master Oficial
Biography
 
- Professor of Civil Law at the University of Valencia.
- Data Protection Officer for the University of Valencia.
- Director of the  Institutional Chair for the Promotion of Entrepreneurship.
- Director of the Official Master LLM "Mediation, Arbitration, and Conflict Management in Private Law."
PRADO GASCO, VICTOR JOSE

PRADO GASCO, VICTOR JOSE

PDI-Associat/Da Universitari/A
Biography
 

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PRIMO LLACER, ALBERTO MIGUEL

PRIMO LLACER, ALBERTO MIGUEL

PDI-Associat/Da Universitari/A
RABANETE MARTINEZ, ISABEL JOSEFA

RABANETE MARTINEZ, ISABEL JOSEFA

PDI-Ajudant Doctor/A
Biography
 

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REIG PALMERO, GEMA

REIG PALMERO, GEMA

PDI-Associat/Da Universitari/A
REYES LOPEZ, MARIA JOSE

REYES LOPEZ, MARIA JOSE

PDI-Catedratic/a d'Universitat
RODRIGUEZ ALMENAR, JORGE MANUEL

RODRIGUEZ ALMENAR, JORGE MANUEL

PDI-Titular d'Escola Universitaria
RODRIGUEZ DE LLAMAS, MARIA SONIA

RODRIGUEZ DE LLAMAS, MARIA SONIA

PDI-Titular d'UniversitatDirector/a Titulacio Master OficialCap de Seccio-ServeiJefe/a de Seccion-Servicio-Vicerrectorado d'Igualtat, Diversitat i Pol Inclusives; Cap d'Iniciatives Front a la Violencia Masclista

Departamento de Derecho Civil Facultad de Derecho Avda. Los Naranjos s/n 46022 Valencia

21808

sonia.rodriguez-llamas@uv.es

Biography
 
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Sonia Rodríguez Llamas, Full Professor of Civil Law at the University of Valencia, has a doctorate from this university and has more than three decades of academic and research experience. Her main lines of research focus on civil liability, appropriate methods of conflict resolution (MASC) and mediation, family crises and economic-matrimonial regimes, gender violence and civil contracting. He has two recognized six-year periods of research and a solid scientific production that includes three monographs (one of them with a second edition), an annotated legislative compilation, forty book chapters and sixteen articles in indexed journals, in addition to intense participation in national and international conferences and seminars. 

She has participated in various competitive international, national and regional research projects on intellectual property, mediation, gender violence and European law, as well as in research contracts with public administrations. These activities have been complemented with research stays in prestigious centers, such as the University of London or the Sapienza University of Rome. 

His research activity is also characterized by a strong orientation towards the transfer of knowledge, highlighting his membership in the Institutional Chair for the Culture of Mediation (UV-Generalitat) and his continued participation in specialized training for legal operators (CGPJ, IVAP, among others), as well as his contribution to the development of public regulations, such as the Citizen Coexistence Ordinance of the city of Valencia.

In the teaching field, for more than 30 academic years, he has taught Civil Law subjects in numerous degrees and double degrees (Law, DADE, Political Sciences,Criminology, among others), as well as in official master's and doctoral programs. His teaching activity has been positively evaluated with four five-year periods and an excellent rating in the Docentia program, and is characterized by methodological innovation, the use of ICT and the practical orientation of learning. 

Likewise, she continuously participates in teaching innovation projects and is a member of consolidated groups in this field, having also served as principal researcher in projects aimed at the development of legal skills. In the field of academic direction, he has co-supervised a doctoral thesis and directed numerous master's and degree final projects. 

In terms of university management, she currently serves as co-director of the Master's Degree in Law and Gender Violence at the University of Valencia and has been its secretary, in addition to holding the position of Cap d'Initiatives against Sexist Violence at the University of Valencia since 2019, leading institutional initiatives on equality and prevention. He has led the creation of the UV service "Espai Violeta" of the UV. This service provides legal, psychological and academic assistance and support to women victims of sexist violence who are part of the university community

SAIZ GARCIA, CONCEPCION

SAIZ GARCIA, CONCEPCION

PDI-Catedratic/a d'UniversitatCoordinador/a Curs

Departamento de Derecho Civil 2F10

21815

concepcion.saiz@uv.es

Biography
 

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SANCHO LOPEZ, MARINA

SANCHO LOPEZ, MARINA

PDI-Prof. Permanent Laboral Ppl
Biography
 

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SERRA RODRIGUEZ, MARIA ADELA

SERRA RODRIGUEZ, MARIA ADELA

PDI-Catedratic/a d'UniversitatDirector/a de Departament
TAMAYO CARMONA, JUAN ANTONIO

TAMAYO CARMONA, JUAN ANTONIO

PDI-Titular d'Universitat
TUDELA CHORDA, SERGIO

TUDELA CHORDA, SERGIO

PDI-Associat/Da Universitari/A
DE VERDA BEAMONTE, JOSE RAMON

DE VERDA BEAMONTE, JOSE RAMON

PDI-Catedratic/a d'Universitat
VERDERA SERVER, RAFAEL ANTONIO

VERDERA SERVER, RAFAEL ANTONIO

PDI-Catedratic/a d'Universitat