Tenured lecturer since 2024 in the Department of Philosophy of Law and Politics at the University of Valencia. Since 2007, she has been a senior lecturer and associate professor at the same university. She was also a tenured lecturer at the European University of Valencia, in the Faculty of Social Sciences, coordinator of the Bachelor’s Degree in International Relations and chair of the Works Council. She has over a decade of experience in public administration in areas such as Social Welfare, Analysis, Immigration, Citizenship and Cooperation, and the Regional Parliament.
She holds a degree in Law from the University of Valencia (1995–2000) and a European PhD in Human Rights: Current Issues from the University of Valencia and the Università degli Studi di Palermo, awarded with the distinction of Summa Cum Laude. PhD Programme with Quality Accreditation (2008).
She holds accreditation as a Contracted Doctor (2014) and a Private University Lecturer (2015), two six-year research periods (ANECA 2022–2024), one five-year period (2021) and seven three-year periods (2010–2026). She currently teaches the subject of Human Rights in English and has also taught other subjects such as Philosophy of Law and Theory of Law in Spanish and Valencian. 

She has served as Secretary of the Statutes Committee from 2022 to 2025 and is also a member of the working group tasked with adapting the University of Valencia’s Statutes to the LOSU.
She is a member of the Academic Coordination Committee for the Master’s Degree in Human Rights, Peace and Sustainable Development and of the work placement module for that Master’s programme. She is a member of the Academic Committee for the Bachelor’s Degree in Social Work at the University of Valencia.
Her main areas of research include: human rights, immigration (family reunification and unaccompanied minors), matriarchy, politics, climate justice, artificial intelligence, new alternative forms of care, ageing and teaching innovation. She collaborates with the following research groups: Human Rights and Globalisation (Derglo), ‘The Alan Watson Group: The Making of Western Law’ (WESTLAW) and ‘Gender, Migration and Digital Transformations in Transnational Contexts’ (INTERGENDIG). 
Author of over a hundred publications in prestigious journals and publications. In 2022, she received the Solveig Norsdtröm Prize, awarded by the Chair of Peace and Justice at the University of Alicante for the academic years 2021–22 and 2024–25, and the Vice-Rectorate for International Relations and Development Cooperation, for the best article and best book chapter, with a prize of €1,500. She has supervised a doctoral thesis and more than fifty undergraduate and master’s dissertations.

She has undertaken research visits to the Universities of Palermo (Italy), Mainz (Germany), Poznań (Poland) and the European Court of Human Rights (Strasbourg, France); she has taught at the Universities of Vienna and Bucharest; and she is co-director of a development cooperation project with Colombia.

Emilia Bea isProfessor of Philosophy of Law and Political Philosophy at the University of Valencia. Coordinator of the doctoral program in Sustainability and Peace in the Post-global era and member of the Academic Commission of the Master's Degree in Human Rights, Peace and Sustainable Development, of the teaching association of the Doctorate in "Diritti umani. Evoluzione, tutela i limiti" of the University of Palermo, of the Doctorate in Citizenship and Human Rights of the University of Barcelona and of the Research Group "Human Rights and Globalization" of the University of València.

It has six recognized sections of teaching activity. He has taught undergraduate courses in the subjects Natural Law, Legal Theory, Philosophy of Law, Human Rights, Introduction to Legal Thought, Political Theory and Philosophy, and Human Rights/Social Rights, and has tutored more than thirty TFGs. Regarding postgraduate teaching, he collaborated during several courses in the Master's Degree in International and European Union Studies, and constantly in the Master's Degree in Human Rights, Peace and Sustainable Development, in which he has directed more than forty TFMs. He has also supervised a total of nine doctoral theses at both the University of Valencia and the University of Barcelona. Teaching at the UV has been completed with participation in training programs and activities at other teaching centers, both Spanish and foreign, in addition to being a member of the team of more than ten teaching innovation projects.

As far as research activity is concerned, she has been recognized for four six-year periods of research and is a member of the scientific committee and external evaluator of numerous journals such as the Yearbook of Philosophy of Law, Rights and Freedoms, Cuadernos Electrónicoof Philosophy of Law, Person and Law, B@belonline, Aurora: papers from the María Zambrano Seminar, Lectora: magazine of gifts and texts, Universitas, Magazine of Philosophy, Annals of the Francisco Suárez Chair and Telematic Magazine of Philosophy of Law.

He has participated in more than twenty research projects funded in competitive calls, which has led to the organization and collaboration in numerous national and international conferences. As a result of these collaborations and various research stays in prestigious centers in Paris, Palermo, Rome and Pisa, a notable number of his publications are in foreign languages, especially French and Italian. Starting with her doctoral thesis on the thought of Simone Weil, for which she obtained the extraordinary doctorate prize, her main line of scientific research has focused on this philosopher, on whom a large part of her publications and activities focus. Research line that is complemented by the study of other contemporary authors such as Edith Stein, María Skobtsov, Virginia Woolf, Adélaïde Hautval, Etty Hillesum, Simone de Beauvoir, Gisèle Halimi, Hannah Arendt, María Zambrano or Rachel Bespaloff, and that has been developed mainly within the framework of the Seminari Filosofia i Gènere of the University of Barcelona, aimed at the reconstruction of a philosophical genealogy and feminine literature. Another notable area of research refers to torture, war, resistance against barbarism and intergenerational, transitional and restorative justice. Likewise, in the field of human rights, among other issues related to minority rights and social rights, his research work has focused on the relationship between rights, duties and the notion of responsibility.

Senior Lecturer in Religions and Law.

She has been Vice Dean of the Degree in Political Science and Administration and Research of the Faculty of Law of the University of Valencia during the years 2018 to 2021.

His research works are related to fundamental rights, public freedoms and religious groups. Specifically, her publications study the incidence of the religious factor in European legislative policies on biomedical research and also about immigration, addressing issues of family law, religious minorities, gender and religions, and cultural and religious diversity. He has been member of several research projects funded by public and private institutions, highlighting his participation in an international project entitled "Redefining families: bioethics, assisted reproduction and emerging family forms", led by researchers from the Center for Family Research of the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom) and financed by the Welcome Trust of London. She has been visiting professor at the Center for Family Research at the University of Cambridge, at the Max Planck Institute for Religion and Ethnic Diversity in Göttigen, at the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law, at the University of Heidelberg and at Sapienza University. Currently, she directs, together with Professor Carmen Tomás y Valiente, the Research Group of the University of Valencia: "BioLaw: Interdisciplinary research group". Regarding university management, in addition to being Vice-Dean, she has been Secretary of the Department from 2003 to 2015, member of the Faculty of the University of Valencia from 2005 to 2021, member of the Teaching Commission during the years 2006 to 2012, member of the Research Commission from 2013 to 2021 and member of the Board of the Faculty of Law of the University of Valencia from 2004 to the present.

From 2023, she directs, together with Professor Paulino Pardo, the Spanish legal Journal "Laicidad y libertades. Escritos Jurídicos".