Fitxa persona

María Roncero Sanchis holds a Degree in Psychology from the University of Valencia (2006) and a PhD in Psychology from the University of Valencia (2011) with a mention of “European Doctorate” and an extraordinary doctoral award. She is currently a senior lecturer in the Department of Personality, Assessment and Psychological Treatments at the University of Valencia. She is part of the research and treatment group for obsessions and compulsions (I'TOC). She has focused her research career on the study of eating disorders, including obesity and orthorexia, and the spectrum of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Since beginning her research career, she has participated in more than 17 competitive R&D&I research projects at the national and regional level, leading four of them. In addition, she has collaborated on various international studies, mainly with Dr Janet Treasure (King's College, London) and Dr Guy Doron (Interdisciplinary Centre, IDC, Herzliya). She has more than 60 national and international publications in scientific journals, 15 book chapters, and more than 100 conference presentations. She has been teaching at various universities since 2008, including the Universitat Jaume I in Castelló and the University of Zaragoza. She has collaborated on more than 10 educational innovation projects, leading four of them, and has published various teaching materials. Since 2018, she has been the coordinator of the Training Area of the University of Valencia's employment service, UVocupació. She is currently the principal investigator, together with Gemma García-Soriano, of the Ministry of Science and Innovation's Knowledge Generation 2024 project ‘Increasing awareness and reducing barriers in the Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum: Designing eHealth interventions for families, professionals and society’ (Ref. PID2024-157543OB-I00).