Clara Viana Ballester, Doctor in Law and Graduate in Criminology from the Universitat de València, is Tenure-track 2 professor of Criminal Law at the Universitat de València. She has recognised three five-year terms for teaching merits and one six-year research term. Her doctoral thesis is published in the Collection of Monographs of the Congress of Deputies, with the title " Inmunidades e Inviolabilidades: naturaleza jurídica y concepción dogmática. Especial referencia a la inviolabilidad parlamentaria".

She belongs to the Research Group reference GIUV2017-382 on "Modern trends in Criminal Law and Criminology: Crime Prevention and protection of civil liberties". Her lines of research include personal grounds for exemption from criminal liability (personal-functional guarantees), authorship and content on the Internet, the legal consequences of crime and criminal enforcement, specifically the measure of probation. She has been a member of several research projects funded by public institutions and during 2018 and 2019 she has been Principal Investigator of an R+D+i granted by the Valencian Government for emerging groups entitled "Libertad Vigilada: fundamentos político-criminales y aplicación práctica" [Probation: political-criminal foundations and practical application].

Since her beginnings as a lecturer at the University of Alacant, where she was Trainee lecturer (LOU) for five years, she has been very committed to teaching and educational innovation, participating as a member and in the management and coordination of various projects and innovation networks, both at the University of Alacant and the Universitat de València. She has taught on the undergraduate degrees in Law and Criminology, as well as on the double degrees in Law-ADE and Law-Criminology. She has also taught on the Master's Degree in Business Law (Commercial, Labour and Tax Consultancy) and on the Master's Degree in Criminal Guarantees and Socioeconomic Crimes. Additionally, she has directed several Master's Theses (TFM) in the Master's Degree in Criminology and Security.

Her experience in university management in a statutory single-person position dates back to 2012, when she was appointed Deputy Secretary of the Faculty of Law. She currently holds the position of Secretary of the Centre since January 2016.