Manuel Martín-Loeches is Professor of Psychobiology at the Complutense University of Madrid, where he took a PhD in Psychobiology which included a doctoral thesis on brain activity and cognition in Alzheimer's and multi-infarct dementia patients. Since then, he has focused on a variety of topic areas, always related to the brain and human cognition, in both healthy people and patients with different pathologies, especially schizophrenia. He carried out post-doctoral research at the University of Konstanz (Germany) and at the Humboldt University in Berlin. After that, he has continued with further scientific studies abroad, at institutions such as the Welcome Laboratory of Neurobiology, University College London.

The basic cognitive processes he has addressed in his research include visual attention, working memory and, above all, human language. In particular, in recent years, he has worked intensively on the evolution of the human mind and brain, contributing a number of essays to this field on the role of working memory in the development of the modern human mind, the relationships between cognition and the form of the human brain, and the interaction between the emotions and cognitive processes, with the aim of revealing the vulnerability of our minds and brain to external, especially social, factors. In addition, he has contributed to the study of the neurocognitive mechanisms of religion, aesthetics and art, as well as such fundamentally social and human emotions as guilt, shame or pride.

He is the co-author of over 100 scientific articles and 90 presentations for congresses, courses and conferences, and is the author of the books What is brain activity? Techniques for studying it (New Library, 2001), The mind of Homo sapiens. The brain and human evolution (Aguilar, 2008), The evolution of the brain: the fascinating history of our mind (RBA, 2018) and The social brain: why we are designed to connect with others (RBA, 2019). Together with Juan Luis Arsuaga, he has also co-authored The indelible stamp: the past, present and future of the human being (Debate, 2013). In addition, he features sporadically in a range of different media, such as El Cultural de El Mundo, QUO magazine, Cadena SER Radio, or the Cuatro TV network.

Director of the Department of Educational Sciences at the University of La Rioja. Professor of Developmental Psychology and Education at the University of La Rioja. Academic Director of the Official Master's Degree in Educational Intervention and Innovation at the University of La Rioja. Co-director of the University Master’s Degree in Neuropsychology of Advanced Intellectual Capacity at the University of La Rioja. Co-director of the University Master’s Degree Autism Spectrum Disorders at the University of La Rioja. Academic Director of the Summer Course an Educational Model for the Development of High Capacity: The differentiated curriculum at the University of La Rioja. Principal Investigator of the EICUR Research Group (Cognitive Research at the University of La Rioja).

After a short spell as associate professor of Psychology at the University of Santiago de Compostela (1981-82), he then became professor of Basic Psychology at the University of La Laguna, and since then has kept up an uninterrupted career of teaching and scientific research in the field of the cognitive and brain processes involved in language. There, as a founder and current director of the University Institute of Neuroscience (IUNE), he and his colleagues have carried out research into techniques of electroencephalography (EEG), non-invasive brain stimulation and functional neuroimaging. His main lines of research centre around the neurophysiology and neuroanatomy of linguistic meaning, looking at the functional role of the corporeal processes in the construction of meaning, with a special focus on how the brain reuses neuronal networks of motor skills, inhibitory control, perception and emotion in the understanding of language.

As a visiting scholar, he has carried out scientific exchanges in several research centres in the United States (Harvard, Illinois, Oregon, Wisconsin and Memphis), Italy (Bologna, Padua and Rome), Germany (Saarbrucken, Dresden and Freiburg), France (Paris and the CNRS), the United Kingdom (Sussex and York), Holland (Institute of Psycholinguistics Max Planck), Cuba (Neuroscience Centre of Cuba), Chile (Concepción), Colombia (Medellín), Argentina (Institute of Cognitive Neurology, INECO ) and China (Dalian). He has been the principal investigator in over a dozen competitive projects; all in all, he has directed 18 doctoral theses, published around 100 articles (mainly in international journals of psychology and neuroscience) and written or edited 6 books in the areas of cognitive psychology, psycholinguistics and cognitive neuroscience. He has 6 six-year recognised periods of research by the Spanish government, the maximum possible number, in recognition of his continued scientific production over several decades. In addition, he has been president of the Spanish Society of Experimental Psychology, was named Fellow of the Society for Text and Discourse and in 2017 received the Research Prize from the University of La Laguna.

Rosario Ortega Ruiz, Professor of Psychology, is currently Emeritus Professor at the University of Cordoba (Spain) and Director of the Laboratory for the Study of Convivencia and Violence Prevention (www.laecovi.com). She has over 30 years of research experience on the field of international relations, socio-emotional and moral competence development, as well as on children play and social and moral cognition. On the last 25 years, she has led research on unjustified violence, school violence, bullying and cyberbullying, and dating violence and how it can harbour violence and lead to the psychogenesis of gender violence. She is author of over a hundred scientific journal articles, and fifteen books. Her academic activity has also focused on training young researchers, as well as preventing children and youth violence, through the development of evidence-based prevention models of psychoeducational intervention. 

She has supervised over 30 successful PhD Students. In 2005, she led the creation of the Department of Psychology at the University of Cordoba. In 2008 she led the development of a new Master of Research and Doctorate Programme. Her international work included more than ten European project and research and psychoeducational interventions in Latin America (sponsored by, among other, the Interamerican Bank of Development, UNESCO-Brazil, UK-DIFID for Nicaraguan Public Educational System).

Her experience in science management includes two terms in the Coordinating Commission Spanish National Agency for Academic Quality -ANECA and CNEAI- and one term in the Spanish National Agency for Research -AEI- and several time on the National Programme of I+D+i. She has been member of the evaluation panel of the European Commission -European Research Council, Starting Grants and Consolidator Grants-, as well as for the Research Council of Norway, Portugal and Chile, among other. She is currently member of the review panels of the European Science Foundation and the Spanish Foundation on Science and Technology -FECyT.

She is member of the Board of Directors of the Association for Scientific Research on Psychology and Education (ACIPE) https://acipe.es/acipe/junta-directiva and associate editor of the journal Educational Psychology https://journals.copmadrid.org/psed and co-director of the Psychology Society and Education http://ojs.ual.es/ojs/index.php/psye;

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Jose A. León is Professor of Psychology at Autonomous University of Madrid. His teaching is focused on the cognitive mechanisms of language comprehension, knowledge acquisition and reading processes in texts and images understanding. His main research has developed in the study of cognitive processes of the language and speech comprehension, the inferences, causal cognition, mental representations and reading, with strong implantation in the educational applications and the evaluation of reading competence in children and adolescents (Ecomplec. Pri and Ecomplec.Sec, edited by TEA). His current research focus on the eye movements study in children and adults when reading text and comics. He is collaborating with several North American and European research groups. Also, he was a Visiting Scholar in the nCenter for Cognitive Brain Imaging (CCBI) at Carnegie Mellon University, in the Psychology Departments of the Universities of Minnesota, Pittsburgh, Memphis and Kentucky in the USA, and the University of Leiden in The Netherlands. He has published more than 200 articles, many of them in international impact journals, dozens of books and more than thirty book chapters, many of them international too. He has been IP in more than twenty competitive projects and has led more than a dozen of doctoral theses. He has organized several international congresses. Currently, he is Editor-in-Chief of Psicología Educativa journal (Q2), and reviewer of several international journals. Also, he is the “Educational Psychology Committee” national representative in the European Federation of Psychologist's Associations (EFPA).

University Professor in the Department of Education at the University of Huelva (Spain). Chairman of the Comunicar Group, an established educational communication group in Spain, and Editor of the renowned scientific magazine Comunicar (indexed in JCR-Q1 & Scopus-Q1 etc.). He is also the Director of the Agora Research Group, has carried out a number of national and international research projects and has directed numerous doctoral theses. He is Director of the Inter-University International Master’s Degree in Communication and Audio-visual Education (UNIA/UHU) and Deputy Director of the Inter-University Communication Programme (US, UMA, UCA and UHU). Awarded Best Researcher Award for Social Sciences at the University of Huelva in 2015. He was also Vice-Rector of Technology, Innovation and Quality at the University of Huelva for 7 years (2005-12).

Professor at the Department of Developmental Psychology and Education at the University of Salamanca

Director of Service for Social Affairs at the University of Salamanca.

Specialist in Clinical Psychology

Director of the USAL Research Group on ‘Sexuality and Interpersonal Relations’

Joint Director of the USAL Master’s Degree in ‘Family and Couple Therapy’

Coordinator for over two decades of the USAL Doctoral Programs on ‘Sexuality, Couple and Family’ and ‘Sexuality and Interpersonal Relations’.

Main Researcher in a number of R+D+ I Projects

Author of numerous research articles, books and book chapters related to affective and sexual development

Lecturer for numerous Postgraduate programs in National and Latin-American Universities

Professor of Developmental Psychology and Education. PhD from the University of Salamanca. Director of the Inter-University Master’s Degree in Intervention and Family, Social and Community Mediation and coordinator of the PhD Program in Psychology at the University of La Laguna. She has authored a number of books and book chapters published by national publishers (e.g. The Family and Human Development; Context and Social Development; Preservation of the Family; Practical Handbook on Positive Parenting) and has written book chapters for internationally-renowned publishers such as Kluwer Academic Publishers, Masson, Psychology Press, Oxford University Press; Cambridge University Press or Routledge. She has also participated in numerous national and international conferences. She is a peer reviewer for 10 influential international journals and is main researcher for research projects in the National Plan and the Canary Islands Government. She has been visiting schoolar at the Universities of Sussex (UK), Nijmegen (Holland), Bologna (Italy), Genoa (Italy), Freiburg (Germany), Wisconsin (USA), Dalian (China) and others, and has been named Fellow by the American Association for Psychological Science. She is a reviewer for ANEP, the French National Research Agency (ANR), the Israel Science Foundation (ISF), the Portuguese Research Agency, the Chilean Research Agency and the Colombian Research Agency. Since 2000, she has designed and implemented a number of parental education programs for families at psycho-social risk which are used in different autonomous communities in Spain, in Portugal and in Brazil. She is an expert consultant for designing policies of positive parenting and teacher training for the Council of Europe, the Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equality and the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces. She has also been president of the European Society of Developmental Psychology, and has helped to organize numerous international conferences, some of which have taken place in the Canary Islands, such as the 12^th European Conference on Developmental Psychology (2005) and the International Winter School for Postgraduates, on "Evidence-based parenting programs to promote positive parenting” (held in 2011 in Puerto de la Cruz), as well as the Pre-conference Workshop based on the same theme in 2013 in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Professor of Developmental Psychology and Education. PhD from the University of Salamanca. Director of the Inter-University Master’s Degree in Intervention and Family, Social and Community Mediation and coordinator of the PhD Program in Psychology at the University of La Laguna. She has authored a number of books and book chapters published by national publishers (e.g. The Family and Human Development; Context and Social Development; Preservation of the Family; Practical Handbook on Positive Parenting) and has written book chapters for internationally-renowned publishers such as Kluwer Academic Publishers, Masson, Psychology Press, Oxford University Press; Cambridge University Press or Routledge. She has also participated in numerous national and international conferences. She is a peer reviewer for 10 influential international journals and is main researcher for research projects in the National Plan and the Canary Islands Government. She has been visiting schoolar at the Universities of Sussex (UK), Nijmegen (Holland), Bologna (Italy), Genoa (Italy), Freiburg (Germany), Wisconsin (USA), Dalian (China) and others, and has been named Fellow by the American Association for Psychological Science. She is a reviewer for ANEP, the French National Research Agency (ANR), the Israel Science Foundation (ISF), the Portuguese Research Agency, the Chilean Research Agency and the Colombian Research Agency. Since 2000, she has designed and implemented a number of parental education programs for families at psycho-social risk which are used in different autonomous communities in Spain, in Portugal and in Brazil. She is an expert consultant for designing policies of positive parenting and teacher training for the Council of Europe, the Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equality and the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces. She has also been president of the European Society of Developmental Psychology, and has helped to organize numerous international conferences, some of which have taken place in the Canary Islands, such as the 12^th European Conference on Developmental Psychology (2005) and the International Winter School for Postgraduates, on "Evidence-based parenting programs to promote positive parenting” (held in 2011 in Puerto de la Cruz), as well as the Pre-conference Workshop based on the same theme in 2013 in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Graduate in Law from the Complutense University of Madrid (1986). Member of the Technical Experts Corps of the Social Security Administration (1993).

After occupying different posts in the National Institute of Social Security (1993-1999) and the General Directorate for Social, Minor and Family Action (1999-2004), he has held the position of Deputy Director General of Families in the General Directorate of Services for Families and Children (Ministry of Health, Consumer Affairs and Social Welfare) since 2004.

One of its main functions is to promote and coordinate the government regulations, plans, strategies and social programmes to support families, in collaboration with autonomous communities, local corporations and different associations, paying particular attention to family groups with special needs.

The Sub-directorate General for Families has launched initiatives to promote the positive exercise of parental responsibilities and psycho-social intervention with families from a ‘positive parenting’ approach; it also encourages the extension of services to address family conflict (such as orientation, mediation and family meeting points) and supports social initiatives to encourage business policies which foster the reconciliation and co-responsibility of work, family and personal life.

He is in charge of coordinating the annual training plans for professionals in social services, childhood and family, promoted by the Ministry of Health, Consumer Affairs and Social Welfare. He has also been a member of many organizing committees and a speaker at congresses, conferences and seminars, as well as a coordinator and tutor for studies and publications on policies to support families.

He has been secretary of the Council and State Observatory for Families, secretary of the Inter-ministerial Commission for the Integrated Family Support Plan and has represented Spain in the EU Group of Experts on Demography and Families and in the European Alliance for Families, as well as member of the Council of Europe Liaison Committee for the Conferences of Ministers responsible for Family Affairs.