Fitxa persona

Professor of Human Geography in the Department of Geography at the University of Valencia, she has an extensive research, teaching and management career of more than 30 years of university dedication. She has published more than 50 articles and book chapters, has been PI of a national project and 3 projects funded by the EU within H2020. She has been director of the Interuniversity Institute of Local Development of the UVEG and UJI, vice-dean of the Faculty of Geography and History and president of the CAT of Geography and Environment.

Her research has been consolidated following the line initiated with her doctoral thesis, 'Planning models of public services: Secondary and Vocational Education in the Valencian Community' (1998), has been oriented to the analysis of the economic activities of the service sector, its territorial impact on local and regional development, as well as the planning of the location of public facilities and services. The turning point towards the consolidation of her research was the award in 2011 of the research project entitled 'Environmental and social sustainability in metropolitan spaces: the case of the metropolitan area of Valencia' funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology (DG Research, CSO2010-20481), although she had previously participated in more than 25 competitive projects and agreements or contracts as a researcher, this project was the first in which she took the responsibility of PI alone, with a team of 12 researchers.

In recent years she has devoted her research to topics that can be included within Economic Geography, Social Geography and Tourism Geography, such as accessibility to public services in metropolitan environments, coastal and cultural tourism, the impact of tourism on cities, social innovation, sustainable development in different territorial contexts, territorial and social inequalities, etc. In parallel, she has been invited as visiting professor at the London School of Economics (United Kingdom), the PACTE Laboratory of the University of Grenoble (France), the Department of Human Geography of the University of Massey (New Zealand) and the CRISES center of Montreal (Canada). He also did pre-doctoral stays at the University of Leeds (UK), at the University of Toronto (Canada) and at the Pennsylvania State University (USA). She has supervised 6 doctoral theses, 2 of them with international mention. She is director and member of the editorial board of the journal Cuadernos de Geografía of the University of Valencia.