Full Professor of Philosophy of Law at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos. Secretary General at the Rey Juan Carlos University (2025-present). Director of the URJC Legal Clinic (2020-2025). Academic Director of the university extension program “Legal Assistant for People with Intellectual Disabilities” (2021-present).
Positions Held: Over 20 years of teaching and research experience in the area of Philosophy of Law at the universities of Córdoba, Complutense de Madrid, and URJC. Research stays at Oxford, Católica de Chile, Tor Vergata in Rome, among others. Fulbright Scholar (2004-05. Project: The Legal Ontology of Adolf Reinach). Speaker: over 100 presentations in English, Italian, and Spanish at national and international universities. Organized more than 20 conferences and academic events. Participated in teaching innovation and development cooperation projects (PI of Disability, a matter of law, 2019; PI of Philosophy in prison, 2020).
She is the principal investigator (URJC) of the project B2-Inf Be better informed about fertility. Giving voice to citizens towards improving assisted reproduction technologies for society (1/11/2020-31/10/2023, extended until 30/06/2026). This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 872706. Total amount: 1.000.000 € (URJC: 104.000).
She is also the principal investigator of the European Research Project Together for inclusion (2025-2028). Total amount: 487.978 €.
She has also been in charge of leading the European Self Advocates project within her organization (European Commission, Erasmus Plus, total amount: 5000€).
She has participated in more than 15 funded projects throughout her career, belonging to various national and international entities.
She holds three research periods positively evaluated by the CNAI 1/2008-06/2014. RESEARCH PERIOD OF THE YEARS 2014 TO 2019: May 2021).
One of her strengths is the dissemination and transfer of knowledge generated from research, especially to vulnerable populations. In this regard, she has promoted more than 15 collaboration agreements between her university and third sector entities.
She has specialized in cognitively accessible knowledge transfer for vulnerable populations. She is the co-author of the first complete version of the Spanish Constitution in easy-to-read format (2024, 2nd ed).
Three recognized Docentia periods (the last two with an EXCELLENT rating). Coordinator of 4 Service-Learning projects at URJC rated as Excellent (Legal advice and literacy for people at risk of social exclusion).
Research program incentives from URJC granted with the maximum amount in the calls of 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024.
She has been an evaluator of research projects ("The person in biolaw and bioethics. Universidad de las Américas, Quito, Ecuador, July 2020. Young researchers call, Community of Madrid, December 2019).
Reviewer for the journals: Persona y Derecho (2008-present), Cuadernos de Bioética (2008-present), I Varande journal of phenomenology and semiotics (2009-present), Journal of Religion and Health (2019), Anuario de Filosofía del Derecho (2020).
Member of the Editorial Board of SFD (Seminar of Philosophy of Law, 2005), Member of the Advisory Committee of the journal Cuadernos de Bioética (2008), Member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Teresa de Jesús Women’s Studies Chair (2010), Member of the Research Ethics Committee of the Universidad Católica de Valencia (2015-16), Member of the Doctoral Commission of the Universidad Católica de Valencia (2015-16), Associate Editor of Cuadernos de Bioética (2015), Member of the Scientific Committee of the journal IUSTITIA (2017). Member of the Board of Directors of the Association of Bioethics and Medical Ethics (AEBI, 2018). Corresponding Academician of the Royal Academy of Jurisprudence and Legislation (2016).
Since 2023, she has been a member of the ethics committee of COMECE in Brussels.
She has been the director of the Master’s in Bioethics at URJC (2018-2022).
She has supervised 3 doctoral theses and is currently supervising 3 that are in progress. Her scientific production over the last ten years is supported by more than one hundred indexed publications and over 100 invitations as a speaker at national and international forums. In the last 5 years, the bulk of her publications have been in Q1-rated publishers in both Philosophy and Law.
She has been recognized by Forbes magazine as a change maker for the year 2024 (No. 1 of the 24 ideas that will change 2024) for her leadership in dissemination of scientific knowledge to vulnerable populations through the URJC Legal Clinic.
She received the silver medal for social merit from Penitentiary Institutions (2023) for her career in knowledge transfer in the prison environment.