Ángeles Álvarez Ribelles is a Full Professor of Pharmacology at the Universitat de València (UV) since 2023.

She graduated in Pharmacy (1997) and completed a PhD in Pharmacy (2002) at the UV. Her doctoral thesis “Proinflammatory action of Angiotensin II”, was awarded the UV’s Year’s Best Thesis Prize. On completing her PhD, Angeles began her postdoctoral training in the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC) in 2003, participating in a project awarded the IV Salvat Laboratories Prize for the best health sciences research project by the Salvat Inquifarma Foundation. She continued her postdoctoral training at Harvard Medical School - the fifth best university in the world - studying the spatial and temporal location of integrins during the process of leukocyte migration. Both research stays were financed by scholarships obtained from the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Education, respectively.

In 2006, she joined the Department of Pharmacology at the UV as a Researcher sponsored by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science’s Ramon y Cajal Program. She has been a member of CIBERehd (CB06/04/0071), a national network of research groups investigating digestive and hepatic diseases, since its foundation in 2007, and is a member of a PROMETEO research group of excellence funded by the regional government’s PROMETEO program. In recent years her research has focused on the study of the cellular and molecular mechanisms involved in the vascular toxicity induced by antiretroviral therapy. 

She has been principal investigator of 14 publicly funded research projects, 5 of them within the Spanish central government’s “Plan Nacional” research program (SAF2007, 60021, SAF2010-16030, SAF2015-67678-R, RTI2018-094436-B-I00, PID2022-137678OB-I00). In addition, she has received 9 grants from the Valencian regional government and CIBERehd, amongst other institutions. She has also led, as principal investigator, 5 translational studies about antiretroviral drugs in collaboration with the pharmaceutical industry. She possesses 4 research sexennials (2000-2005, 2006-2011, 2012-2017, 2018-2023) and 1 transfer of scientific knowledge sexennial (2013-2018). The results obtained by the group led by Dr. Alvarez have been published in specialist journals in the fields of Pharmacology – such as British Journal of Pharmacology - and of Infectious Diseases - such as AIDS, Journal of Infectious Diseases and Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, most of which are in the first decile of their category.
To date, Dr. Alvarez has published 56 original articles (h index=26, total number of citations= 2.415 on 01/09/2025) in international journals with a high impact factor, such as Circulation, Circulation Research, Blood and British Journal of Pharmacology, of which 49 are in the first quartile and 20 are in the first decile of their specialist field, having a relevant position in 25. In addition, she has presented more than 100 communications in congresses. She has directed 8 doctoral theses, 12 master’s theses and 28 undergraduate dissertations. She has supported the successful application of 5 pre-doctoral research contracts funded by calls of the regional or central governments and 1 Ramón y Cajal researcher contract.

Full professor. Research interests: development, adaptation and validation of assessment instruments, structural equation modelling, alcohol consumption in adolescents, evaluation of selective prevention programs in alcohol consumption

José Antonio Giménez Costa has a degree (1997) and a PhD (2011) in Psychology from the University of Valencia. He has been a professor at the UNED (2001-2003) and an Associate Professor at the UOC (2013-2024). From 2002 to 2015 he combined different contracts as an associate professor in the Department of Basic Psychology, with the direction of the Community Prevention Unit of Addictive Behaviors of the Mancomunidad de la Canal de Navarrés (Valencia). He is currently a Associate Professor (2019) in the Department of Basic Psychology of the Faculty of Psychology of the University of Valencia. He teaches both in the Psychology and Speech Therapy degrees, as well as in the Official Master's Degree in Drug Dependencies: Research, Treatment and Associated Pathologies (DITPA) of the UV. He has directed and participated in TFG and TFM tribunals, has directed and participated in teaching innovation projects and in agreements with public and private entities. At the research level, he is a member of the APPrAd research group: Psychosocial Aspects of the Addictive Process (GIUV 2021-504). His research career has focused on the study of the specific psychosocial factors that are at the base of the addictive process in order to improve their evaluation and detection and to be able to develop effective prevention and intervention strategies. These analyses have been applied to the study and evaluation of Binge Drinking, as well as the development and evaluation of preventive programs on the consumption of alcohol, vapers/tobacco and cannabis in young people. He has participated in research projects funded in regional and state calls, and has been a member of the Technical Committee for the Prevention of Drug Dependencies of the Ministry of Health of the Generalitat Valenciana (2008-2018). He has carried out research stays at the National University of Córdoba (Argentina) and at the Miguel Hernández University of Elche, and has published several scientific papers and presentations at conferences. He currently has two six-year research periods. In the field of university management, he has been Coordinator of External Internships of the Faculty of Psychology and Speech Therapy of the University of Valencia (2016-2021) and since September 2024 he has been the Coordinator of the Degree in Psychology of this same Faculty.

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Lucía Martínez Martínez is a permanent lecturer in the Department of Social Work at the University of Valencia. She has a diploma in Social Work, a degree in Sociology, a certificate in teaching adaptation (CAP), a master's degree in Local Development Promotion and Management (master's in ADL) and a PhD in Local Development and Territory.

For 22 years, she worked as a social worker in local government, holding various positions ranging from direct care to coordination of the Municipal Social Services department. In 2011, she joined the University of Valencia through a competitive examination, hoping that her professional experience would improve the training of social work students.

Her lines of research revolve around social policies, particularly those based on the social services system: its creation, organisation, management and evaluation. Many of her publications on this subject have appeared in various journals in the field, including Documentos de Trabajo Social, Alternativas (Cuadernos de Trabajo Social), Revista de Servicios Sociales y Política Social, Azarbe, etc.

She has published a wide range of books and is the editor of Los Servicios Sociales en la provincia de Valencia: Análisis territorial y estado de la cuestión (2017), PUV, which was funded by the Provincial Council of Valencia for distribution to all local authorities in the province. She has also contributed chapters to books published by Aranzadi-Thomson Reuters, Caritas-Foessa, Tirant Lo Blanc, Publicaciones de la Universitat de València (PUV) and the Association of Spanish Geographers through the University of Alicante.

He has participated in various conferences on social policies and in various publicly funded research projects on the legislative creation of the social services system in the Valencian Community, carrying out various studies prior to the creation of the legislation, such as the one published at this link: https://www.dival.es/es/inclusio-social/laboratorio-social

He appears in databases such as: Researchgate, Google Scholar, OpenAlex, Dialnet, Roderic, etc.

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