Romina Carla Curone Prieto holds a PhD in Interdisciplinary Gender Studies from the University of Alicante (UA, 2026), awarded cum laude, and a Bachelor's degree in Advertising and Public Relations from the same university. Her postgraduate education includes a Master's degree in Social Innovation and Dynamics of Change (UA, 2021), a Master's degree in Epidemiology and Public Health (VIU, 2025), and a postgraduate specialisation in Equality Policy Management from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.

Her research career is characterised by an interdisciplinary approach that combines communication, gender, and health. Her doctoral thesis, entitled The Construction of Gender in Food Advertising: Femininities, Masculinities and Their Narratives, was carried out under a competitive ACIF predoctoral contract funded by the Generalitat Valenciana (ACIF/2021/119). Her main research interests have focused on gender representations in advertising and media discourse, gender-based violence and sexual violence, and, more recently, on the use of emerging technologies in educational settings to develop communication products.

She has participated in national and European research projects, including ISEDA (Innovative Solutions to Eliminate Domestic Abuse) and Uni4Equity (Strengthening Universities’ Response to Sexual Harassment with an Equity Approach). She is currently a member of the national research project Strengthening Teacher Education through Innovative Methodologies and Emerging Technologies: Design and Evaluation of a Cross-Cultural Programme to Improve Educational Performance, conducted within the Department of Developmental and Educational Psychology at the University of Alicante.

She is the author of scientific publications in international journals such as Feminist Media Studies and Women’s Studies International Forum, in which she has examined gender representations in food packaging and online food advertising. She has also presented her research at national and international academic conferences and serves on the editorial board of Disjuntiva. Crítica de les Ciències Socials.

In addition, she has more than five years of professional experience as a Director of Communications and Director of Marketing in public and private organisations. This experience has enriched and informed her research, bringing an applied and strategic perspective to her academic analyses.

She currently works as a Research Support Specialist in the Department of Developmental and Educational Psychology at the University of Alicante, where she contributes to the development of research materials and instruments, content and resources linked to educational research projects.