Eva Mª Rosa Martínez holds a Bachelor's and a PhD in Psychology from the University of Valencia. Since 2019, she has been an Full Professor in the Department of Basic Psychology at the same university. Previously, she taught for three years at the National University of Distance Education (UNED) and for fourteen years at the Catholic University of Valencia, where she served as Head of the Department of Basic Psychology and Methodology. During this time, she taught a variety of courses in the areas of methodology and basic psychological processes.
Currently, she teaches in the field of Basic Psychology, mainly in the Psychology Degree, and since the 2022/2023 academic year, she has coordinated the course Psychology of Perception and Attention.
In the field of research, she is a member of the Interdisciplinary Research Structure on Reading (ERI-Lectura), which brings together various lines of work related to reading acquisition, learning disorders, literature, and the neuroscience of reading. Her research has focused primarily on the cognitive processes involved in written language processing, vocabulary learning, and language development in populations with neurodevelopmental disorders.
She has also carried out numerous studies on emotional and cognitive processes related to quality of life and meaning in life in different populations. She has participated in several competitive research projects, the results of which have been published in both scientific and outreach journals.