Fitxa persona

. I am Associate Professor at the Department of Criminal Law, Faculty of Law, Universitat de València, since October 2025, in charge of teaching Criminal Law in English to undergraduates, as well as teaching in several Master's Degrees. My research programme, which started under the supervision of Professors Boix Reig and Mira Benavent,develops on three basic lines: the protection of the fundamental rights of citizens, the importance of the practice of law in theoretical reflection, and the need to combine the study of criminal law with that of criminal procedural law. The most relevant area of my scientific contributions concerns the principle of legality in its temporal perspective and the effects of normative change, and the publications I have devoted to this issue include a whole series of novel approaches: the distinction between existence and application of norms as a basic element to elucidate the presence of retroactivity, the establishment of different provisions of temporal applicability of norms, the constitutional rank of favourable retroactivity, prohibition of non-retroactivity related to the enforcement of punishments and normative change due to change in case law. These works have been widely disseminated, both in Spain and abroad. My second line of research concerns the use of information technology in law enforcement, and the impact on fundamental rights that this entails, my contribution consisting of two publications, one of them widely cited in Spain and abroad on the protection of communications data, and another that deals with a novel subject, such as the possibility of using lawfully intercepted communications against non-investigated interlocutors. These publications combine constitutional issues (delimitation of the fundamental rights involved, determination of their essential core), criminal issues (offences committed through wiretapping and offences subject to them) and procedural issues, in a synthesis made possible by the combination of the legal research techniques acquired in the academy and the experience gained as a lawyer specialising in criminal law for more than 18 years.