Dr. Pablo Aznar Crespo is a professor in the Department of Sociology I and a researcher at the University Institute of Water and Environmental Sciences at the University of Alicante (UA), with a career specializing in environmental sociology, social risk management, and social impact assessment. He holds a research sexenio recognized by CNEAI and a teaching quinquenio, and was a beneficiary of an FPU predoctoral contract with four years of teaching duties funded by the Spanish Ministry of Universities.

His scientific output includes 47 publications spanning articles in indexed journals, book chapters, and the editing and authorship of an international collective volume with 40 authors from 8 countries (Spain, Chile, Portugal, Brazil, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Colombia, and Argentina). His contributions focus on social vulnerability, impacts, and social capacities in the face of risks and natural disasters, and on social impact assessment applied to development projects and public policies. Using relational methodologies and systemic approaches, he has developed analytical frameworks that articulate social impacts, adaptive capacities, and governance models in support of decision-making.

He has participated in national, regional, and international research projects, most notably an R&D project funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation on social impacts and capacities related to flooding, a regional R&D project on social vulnerability to climate extremes, and a European LIFE project on the social acceptance and viability of water sanitation solutions. His research has been enriched by stays at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon (Portugal), Tulane University (United States), and Louisiana State University (United States), broadening his expertise in community resilience in the face of natural disasters.

He has participated in scientific and technical advisory contracts with public administrations and companies, including one with the Emergency Coordination Centre of the Valencian Regional Government (1·1·2 service) to develop an early warning message library for flooding events, and another to assess the social impacts of irrigated agriculture in the Campo de Cartagena region.

He has participated in and coordinated 8 international University Development Cooperation (UDC) projects in Ecuador, Colombia, Bolivia, and Brazil, aimed at transferring social impact assessment methodologies to universities and local institutions. He has also coordinated teaching innovation projects on project-based learning, environmental volunteering, and applied social impact assessment, and was a team member of an Erasmus+ CBHE project for curricular and institutional modernization at universities in the Middle East.

He has served as director of the 1st International Congress of Socio-Environmental Studies and president of the Scientific Committee of the 1st Ibero-American Congress of Environmental Sociology. He is a visiting professor at the Autonomous University of the State of Mexico and the Universidad del Valle (Colombia), a member of the research group Population, Environment and Development (UA) and of the PROLITORAL group at the Federal University of Maranhão (Brazil). He is a board member of the Research Committee on Sociology and the Environment (CI21) of the Spanish Sociological Federation (FES).