urrent position: Full Professor

Since March 1998, she has been a faculty member in the Department of Engineering Projects at the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV). Since September 2011, she has also been a researcher at the Institute of Innovation and Knowledge Management (INGENIO), a joint research institute of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and UPV.

Academic and Research Experience

She holds a PhD in Industrial Engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de València (2000) and a degree in Industrial Engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (1992). She teaches Engineering Projects and Advanced Decision-Making Tools. She has co-supervised six PhD dissertations.

University Management Experience

• Deputy Director for Research, Department of Engineering Projects (2002–2005)

• Director of Faculty Training and Accreditation, UPV (2005–2013)

Professional Experience

• Project Engineer, Siemens AG (Germany) and Siemens Power Corp. (USA), 1992–1995

• Project Engineer, Asesoría Energética S.A., Barcelona (1995–1996)

• Autoliv BKI, Valencia (1996–1997)

Research Interests

Applications of Multicriteria Decision-Making techniques (MCDM/MCDA) to business and institutional decision-making. She is an expert in the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and the Analytic Network Process (ANP). Her research focuses on decision-making in complex environments, participatory decision-making, and governance.

She has been Full Professor at UPV and teaching at the School of Industrial Engineering since 1998. She is Principal Investigator at INGENIO (CSIC–UPV). Her main research line focuses on applying AHP and ANP methodologies to develop indicators that support evaluation and decision-making in participatory processes.

Within this field, her two main research lines are:

1. Participatory Decision-Making

2. Application of Multicriteria Models to assess social responsibility and environmental sustainability of policies and organizations

She leads a research group and has consolidated a strong research line with significant scientific output in high-quality journals, numerous publicly and privately funded research and knowledge-transfer projects, and the successful development of several research careers. She is currently the most cited European 

author in the field of the Analytic Network Process.

She has completed three recognized research periods. Since 2011, she has undertaken four teaching stays and two research stays, including at the University of Cassino (Italy) in 2013 and Fraunhofer ISI, Karlsruhe (Germany) in 2021, as well as several faculty mobility actions in the USA, Italy, and Germany.

Main Scientific Contributions

She has served as Principal Investigator of:

• 3 national R&D projects funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science

• 1 European project (PI of the Spanish team)

• 2 projects funded by the Generalitat Valenciana

• 3 projects funded by UPV

Four projects are closely related to the present proposal:

• SUPER-MoRRI (2018–2022) – European level

• INPERRI (2016–2020) – National level

• RRICVAL (2017–2019) – Regional level

• INVISIBLES (2021–2024) – Indicators to analyze the visibility of women in scientific events

Additional projects supported strategic decision-making in public administrations for urban development, regional tourism planning, the naval and food industries, and university strategic planning.

She has published 42 peer-reviewed articles in indexed journals. Four rank 1st, 3rd, 5th, and 5th in their respective fields, with a total of 710 citations (WoS) and an h-index of 17 (December 2021).

Societal Contributions

In collaboration with the private sector, she led a research project that resulted in a €180,000 agreement with Tasaciones Bienes Mediterráneo S.A., developing a market study optimization methodology and an AHP-based pricing decision system still in use today.

In the field of Social Responsibility, she led a consultancy project for the Directorate-General for Innovation of the Generalitat Valenciana, Towards a Responsible Innovation Model in the Valencian Community, contributing to the integration of social development and environmental protection dimensions into the RIS3 strategy.

She also led a study with REDIT (2021) on Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) in the Valencian network of Technological Institutes, highlighting the need to incorporate responsible practices into innovation activities

In 2021, she signed a consultancy agreement as PI with the Argentine Ministry of Education, through the Inter-American Development Bank, to deliver a Responsible Business Innovation training program for 100 young entrepreneurs during 2022–2023.

Total funding obtained as PI from contracts and agreements amounts to €315,538.

Training of Early-Career Researchers

She has supervised 9 completed PhD theses and 5 ongoing. Former doctoral candidates currently hold:

• 1 Juan de la Cierva postdoctoral contract

• 2 Margarita Salas postdoctoral contracts (Pittsburgh and Berlin)

• 1 R&D Director position at IBV (technological center)

• Assistant Professor positions at the University of Valencia

• 3 faculty positions at foreign universities

• 1 position at the Environmental Working Group of DG XII (European Commission)

• She currently supervises a PhD thesis entitled Exploring the Role of Key Actors in Collaborative Knowledge Networks, funded by a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship.

• She served as an ANECA evaluator for the ACADEMIA program between 2010 and 2015.