Raquel Gilar Corbi is a Full Professor in the area of Developmental Psychology and Didactics at the University of Alicante. Her research interests cover various aspects of educational psychology, including instructional design, expert competence analysis, initial and continuous teacher training, program evaluation, socio-emotional competencies and their relationship with employability, transversal competencies in university graduates, as well as factors affecting academic performance at all educational levels. She directs the consolidated research group SOCEDU and has been the Principal Investigator in two National R&D Plan projects and in two international projects, one funded by the Secretariat of Higher Education, Science, Technology, and Innovation (SENESCYT) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and the other supported by the European Erasmus+ KA2 Project. The findings from these projects and research areas have been published in over 60 national and international journal articles. She has supervised 20 doctoral theses, all of which received the cum laude distinction. She has served as an external evaluator for the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). She has been an invited speaker at several European universities, including Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Università degli Studi Roma Tre, as well as at institutions in Ecuador, such as the Central University of Ecuador and the National Polytechnic School of Ecuador.

Andrea Izquierdo holds a Ph.D. in Educational Research with “Cum-Laude” from the University of Alicante (UA), and she is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Developmental Psychology and Didactics at the same university. During her academic tenure at UA, she has been awarded a Collaboration Scholarship by the Ministry of Education and Vocational Training in the Department of Developmental Psychology and Didactics. Additionally, she has held a predoctoral training contract (UAFPU21-54). She specializes in intervention with programs for the development of socio-emotional competencies in the educational field. She is an active member of the SOCEDU research group (VIGROB-140), and has contributed to several research projects. Presently, she is involved in the MCIN project (PID2021-125279OB-100), and one funded by the European Commission (Erasmus+, KA2; 2023-1-PL01-KA220-HED-000156880). She has presented her work at national and international conferences, and has published several articles and book chapters. Additionally, she has completed numerous courses in teaching innovation. In terms of teaching, she instructs classes on the Undergraduate Degree in Early Childhood Education and Primary Education at UA.

Juan Luis Castejón Costa has been a Full Professor in the area of Developmental Psychology and Didactics at the University of Alicante since 2002. His research focuses on instructional design, the structure of intelligence and its educational implications, motivation and its relationship with academic performance, expert competence analysis, emotional intelligence and its connections to employability, as well as factors influencing academic achievement. He has supervised 35 doctoral theses and published approximately 100 articles in national and international journals, most of them indexed in JCR, with half of them in Q1 and Q2. He has been a Research Affiliate and Visiting Professor at Yale University (USA). In 1995, he served as an advisor for the IV Framework Programme for Research of the European Union. He has also been an external evaluator for the Education area of ANEP/AEI (Spanish Research Agency) and, from 2021 to 2023, was a member of the D-18 Commission of ANECA. He has received six positive teaching evaluations and has been awarded six consecutive research periods by CNEAI. Currently, he is the Director of the Research Group on Skills, Competencies, and Instruction and the Coordinator of the PhD Program in Educational Research at the University of Alicante.