[Biography, english version]

Dr. Diana Castilla is Professor of Psychopathology at the Faculty of Psychology, in the Department of Personality, Evaluation and Psychological Treatments at the University of Valencia.

Director of the Psychology Clinic of the University of Valencia (Lluís Alcanyís Foundation) since September 2025.

She has a degree in Psychology from the University of Valencia and a doctorate from the Universitat Jaume I de Castellón (2014), where she obtained a special doctorate award. She has been a researcher with the Labpsitec research group at Universitat Jaume I (2005-2022). 

Currently she leads the resaerch group "SAEM-TIC, Mental Health Technologies", at Universitat de València.

Her main line of research is the use of Information and Communication Technologies in the field of Clinical Psychology and Health. Since 2005, she has been involved in the design, development and clinical validation of different technologies in several projects (local, national and European research projects) as well as in research contracts with both public and private entities. As a result of this activity, Dr. Castilla has 17 intellectual and industrial property registers on different technologies for psychological assessment and intervention. Among these, she is co-author and co-owner of  "Pain Monitor" APP, a validated app for telemonitoring patients with chronic pain, distinguished with awards such as "best health APP 2018" and "best APP in medicine 2019"  in Spain. She was also responsible for the design and development of the Mayordomo application, awarded in 2013 with the international prize LLGA Cities Pilot the Future as the “best technological solution for the elderly” worldwide (San Francisco, USA).

Author of numerous scientific articles, as well as book chapters. She has also been a speaker at various courses on the use of ICTs in Mental Health, as well as at many national and international scientific conferences. He has been teaching in different universities (Universitat Jaume I de Castellón, Universidad de Zaragoza, Universidad de Navarra and Universidad de Valencia) since 2015, in subjects of the degree of Psychology and the Master of General Health Psychology.

Diana Castilla's publications

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).

Jesús Castro Calvo (PhD in Psychology, Jaume I University) is an associate professor at the University of Valencia. His research is focused on the intersection between sexuality and addictive behaviors; in particular, on the exploration of the etiopathogenesis, assessment, and treatment of compulsive sexual behavior. Besides this area of research, Jesús has also participated in studies addressing other aspects related to sexuality (e.g., HIV, sexuality in older adults, etc.) or addictive behaviors (e.g., gaming disorder, binge watching, etc.). As for his clinical experience, Jesús has been involved since 2014 in the assessment and treatment of patients with sexual disorders (mainly, compulsive sexual behavior disorder). Dr. Castro combines his research and clinical activity with multiple teaching responsibilities.

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Joaquín García-Alandete has a degree in Psychology and Philosophy, a PhD in Psychology and a Master's Degree in Third Generation Psychological Therapies. His research interests focus on the psychology of meaning in life (logotherapy, meaning-focused therapy, existential positive psychology), the history of psychology, and the interfaces between psychology, anthropology, and philosophy. He has three six years of recognized research (CNEAI-ANECA), he has been Principal Researcher of the "Psychology, person and sense" group and has participated in several R+D+I projects funded in public calls (Ministry, Ministry). His scientific production is very remarkable, with more than 118 publications including articles in indexed journals (national and international), books, book chapters and contributions to congresses. In the field of academic management, he has held positions as doctoral program coordinator and head of second-cycle bachelor's studies. He has also been a member of research commissions and the faculty board. He has supervised six doctoral theses and been a member of more than twenty tribunals. He has tutored dozens of bachelor's and master's theses, and has participated in numerous tribunals. Likewise, he collaborates in several teaching innovation projects in the Faculty of Psychology and Speech Therapy at the University of Valencia.

Professor of the Department of Personality, Assessment and Psychological Tractaments, at the Faculty of Psychology and Speech Therapy of the University of Valencia. He is a member of the PsicAP-Psychology in Primary Care (AP) research group, which has been one of the most important initiatives to evaluate the effectiveness of psychological treatments for emotional disorders in AP in Spain. This clinical assessment will be carried out in more than 22 AP centers in 8 autonomous communities, to evaluate the treatment of these disorders in AP centers with evidence-based psychological techniques. They will evaluate more than 1,700 patients, including more than 1,000 patients, they will manage to treat more than 300 patients in each group, and they will achieve a target of 200 patients in each group over 12 months, making it one of the major mental health projects carried out in the AP in Spain. It will be responsible for the comprehensive management and coordination at the state level of more than 200 researchers, between Family Doctors and Psychologists. In recent years, he has specialized in the study of the processes of emotional regulation and the relationship with stress, anxiety and depression, assuming the leadership of the line of studies in the PsicAP Project, which allows the study of the mechanisms of change in psychological therapy, but millorar-ne l'effectiveivitat i l'efficiència. In addition, it develops a line of evaluation of cost-effectiveness and cost-utility of psychological therapies within the AP field, together with other members of the PsicAP team.

In December 2020, the MAPFRE Foundation will grant, through the Competitive Regime, a Research Grant Ignacio H. Larramendi 2020 to the project: “Assessment of the Telefónica Psychological Care Program developed during the COVID-19 crisis” with the Principal Investigator, which will allow the construction of the his own research group. In 2022, a project will be granted to the 2021 call of the Ministry of Science in Innovation – Knowledge Generation Projects – which will begin at the end of 2022 focused on an effective ACA. This study is titled "Study of effectiveness and mechanisms of change in the transdiagnòstic psychological treatment for emotional disorders in primary care. A Stepped Wedge clinical assessment. Vitudes Pérez Jover, from the Miguel Hernández University, with principal investigators. In this study a new version of the PsicAP protocol to 2 AP centers in the Valencian Community (València and Alacant), with the objective of evaluating the feasibility of this PsicAP program effectiveness in real practice, with a pragmatic and effective ACA with a Stepped Wedge design (or staggered falca), which has recently been granted. CIAICO23 Project As a member of the team, a new version of this ECA, in the adolescent population, in this case with Dr. Paula Samper as a PI (CIAICO/2023/059), for an amount of 81,300 euros. The most relevant thing is that, as of 12/09/2024, the Principal Investigator has been awarded a Public Private Collaboration project (PCPP23), titled “Primary Care Digital Mental Health Ecosystem (Medical Device)” Objective Assessment and Comprehensive Psychological Care for patients with Anxiety about results and resources mitjançant úss d'Intel·ligència Artificial i Psicometria d'ultima-generation.”, for a quantity of 802,263 euros. Furthermore, he recently completed a 3-month research stay at University College London, after being awarded a José Castillejo Scholarship. This status has allowed us to obtain an Honorary Research Fellow contract from this prestigious university.

Currently, he is the Director of the Psychology Research Group in Primary Care Centers of the Valencian Community (PsiCAP-CV - GIUV2024-616).