Fitxa persona

Associated Professor, she has a PhD in Information Sciences (UCM, 2005), a degree in Journalism (UPV-CEU, 1996) and in Humanities (Universitat de València, 2007); She has a master's degree in Cultural Management (CEU, 2005) and a University Specialist in Environmental Education and Sustainable Development (UNED, 2010). She is a rgular collaborator of Revista. She was Columnist in the Levante-EMV newspaper (2015-2023). Board of directors of the Association of Environmental Information Journalists (APIA) from 2018. 

Mercado-Sáez has co-directed 5 doctoral theses, three of them internationally. She is Principal Investigator, at the expense of Professor Hugo Aznar, of the R+D+i project for consolidated research groups of the GVA entitled "Self-regulation of Social Communication: Study of 2nd generation ethical codes and development of application protocols " (Reference AICO/2021/212). She was IP of the National R+D+i Plan project “Analysis of the information processing of energy policies in Spain, reception and participation processes of social organizations”. (CSO2012-38363, 2013-2015). She collaborates in the Climate Change Communication Observatory. https://observatoriocomunicacc.es/

Editor of the book El debate energético en los medios (UOC, 2017) and co-editor of La Comunicación en situaciones de riesgo y crisis - Communication in situations of risk and crisis (Tirant lo Blanc, 2016) and Autorregulación de la Comunicación Social -Self-regulation of Social Communication (Tecnos, 2024) and Ética de la comunicación ambiental y del cambio climático- Ethics on environmental communication and climate chande (Tecnos, 2024). Author of more than fifty scientific publications: https://producciocientifica.uv.es/investigadores/335144/publicaciones)