Rocío Diez Ros has a degree and a PhD in Geography from the University of Alicante. Professor of Social Sciences Didactics in the Department of General Didactics and Specific Didactics of the Faculty of Education of the University of Alicante, where she is also Coordinator of Gender Equality and Support for Diversity.

Since September 2019, Professor Diez coordinates the Tutorial Action Programme of the University of Alicante at the Institute of Education Sciences (ICE).

She is also director of the Research Group on Equality, Gender and Education (IGE) at the University of Alicante, as well as participating in the Research Group on Human Geography.  She is part of the team of the Instituto Universitario de Investigaciones y Estudios de Género (IUIEG) and the Instituto de Estudios Sociales de América Latina (IUESAL). Among the lines of research she has worked on, the Didactics of Social Sciences with a Gender Perspective, Education for Equal Opportunities, Environmental Education or Co-operative Education and Co-operativism stand out, all of which she has participated in numerous national and international congresses, seminars and courses.

 In the last 5 years, she has directed or co-directed more than 50 end-of-degree/master projects. She has participated in more than 20 projects of teaching innovation, among which the Network "Inclusion of the Gender Perspective in Didactic Subjects" stands out, which she coordinates; or the Network "University, Teaching, Gender and Equality", coordinated by the Equality Unit of the UA.

Throughout her professional career, she has published more than 35 book chapters and 7 articles related to her lines of research. She has also been a member of the organising committee of 14 regional, national and international congresses.

On the other hand, she has spent time in an R&D&I centre, such as the Laboratorio de Caracterizaçao e Reciclagem de Residuos (LCRR) of the Department of Agronomy (DAG) of the State University of Maringa (Paraná, Brazil).