Esther Chiner is a Senior Lecturer of the area of ¿¿knowledge Research Methods and Diagnosis in Education (MIDE) of the University of Alicante (UA). She has a degree in Psychology (1996) and Educational Sciences (1997) from the University of Valencia, and in 2011, she earned a doctorate with a European mention from the UA, receiving the Extraordinary Doctorate Award. She has more than twenty years of teaching experience in higher education, teaching subjects such as Measurement and Assessment in Education, Attention to Diversity / Special Education and Educational Research, both in the former Educational Psychology Bachelor degree and in the current Master's Degree in Teacher Training for Secondary Education. She has supervised more than 80 master's thesis (TFM) and co-directed two doctoral dissertations related to inclusive education and gender equality. She is a member of the Diversity, Education and Gender (DEG) research group of the UA University Institute for Research in Gender Studies (IUIEG). She has two six-year period of research activity and more than 60 publications, many of them in journals with an impact index. These works have followed two main lines of research in the broader context of inclusive education, gender equality and equity: (a) the study of digital inclusion and internet use by people with intellectual disabilities (ID); (b) gender equality in education and its inclusion into the curricula of Education training to promote the development of teaching competencies. She has led various competitive R&D projects and teaching innovation projects and is part of the research or work teams of international R&D projects. She is a member of the Interuniversity Association for Pedagogical Research (AIDIPE) of which she was a treasurer in the period 2011-2013, and of the International Association of Special Education (IASE).