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José Juan Castelló Pastor is a Professor of Private International Law at the University of Valencia. He holds a degree in Law (University of Valencia-UVEG), an LLM from Queen Mary College (University of London), and a PhD in Law (UVEG) with honors “Cum Laude” and “Doctor Internacional.” He received the Extraordinary Doctorate Award (2016-UVEG). Juan de la Cierva-Formación Postdoctoral Fellowship (MINECO-2016). He has been awarded two six-year research grants by the CNEAI. 

The results of his research activity during these years are varied: 2 monographs, 17 articles in indexed scientific journals, and 32 book chapters. I have participated in various communications and presentations, seminars, and conferences held in different Spanish cities and abroad (WIPO in Geneva, Switzerland; Universidade Federal do Paraná in Brazil; Fordham University in New York; Università di Bologna). 

Principal Investigator in three research projects: 1) From December 1, 2022, to September 30, 2025: Ministry of Science, Innovation, and Universities project “Towards a person-centered digital transition in the European Union” (TED2021-129307A-I00). 2) From January 1, 2019, to March 31, 2021: Emerging project “The protection of rights in the digital environment” (GV/2019/118). 3) University project “Protection of inventions of interest to national defense” (CUD-UNIZAR). 

Currently, member of the research team: 1) in the Ministry of Science and Innovation Project “Bases for the modernization and improvement of the industrial and intellectual property regime in the face of the challenges of the digital agenda and sustainability requirements” (PID2022-136567NB-I00); and 2) in the Project “Agriculture of the future: digitization and new genome editing techniques” (CIAICO/2023/2695, Generalitat Valenciana).

Previously, member of the research project of the Ministry of Science, Innovation, and Universities “Systems for the protection and commercial exploitation of innovations in the field of plant varieties” (RTI2018-093666-B-I00); member of the working team on the Ministry of Science and Innovation project “Regime for the transmission of intangible assets” (DER 2015-70091-P). At the European level, member of the research team for the European project JUST-JCOO-AG-2017-800780 “Facilitating cross-border family life: towards a common European understanding” (EUFAM ́S II) and of the working team for the European project JUST/2014/ACTION GRANTS "Save Comp. Collection and development of best practices in cross border cases for the survival of distressed companies."

He has carried out various research stays at prestigious foreign centers and universities, such as the Max Planck Institute in Munich on Innovation and Competition; Fordham University, the Università di Bologna, the University of Mainz, Columbia University, Panthéon Sorbonne Université Paris 1, and the University of Porto.

Coordinator of the collective work “Towards a person-centered digital transition: legal studies from the perspective of the European Union” (Aranzadi La Ley, 2025), director of the collective work “Analysis of the EU Digital Services Regulation and its interrelation with other European Union regulations” (Aranzadi, 2024); of the work “Legal challenges to digital integration: European and international aspects” (Aranzadi, 2021); and co-director of the work “Electronic contracting law and e-commerce in the European Union and Spain” (Tirant Lo Blanch, 2021). 

He is also director of the I-IV International Congress “The Protection of Rights in the Digital Environment” (2019, 2021, 2023, 2025, respectively) held within the framework of the aforementioned research projects.

Member of the University Institute of Property Law – Patrimonium (University of Valencia); and of the research groups (GEDPED) European and Digital Private Law Study Group and (GIPI) Intellectual and Industrial Property R&D Group at the University of Valencia.