Victoria Guillén-Nieto graduated from the University of Alicante with a degree in English Philology in 1986. She obtained a Master’s degree in Applied Linguistics from the same university in 1987 and a Master’s in Forensic Linguistics from Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona in 2008. Guillén-Nieto completed her PhD in English Philology at the University of Alicante in 1993. At present, Guillén-Nieto is a Full Professor in English Studies (Applied Linguistics/Forensic Linguistics) at the Department of English Studies at the University of Alicante. She teaches Forensic Linguistics in the Master’s in English and Spanish for Specific Purposes and in the Master’s in Criminal Investigation and Forensic Sciences. From September 2019 to September 2021, she was President of the International Association of Language and Law (ILLA) for Linguistics. She was elected Executive Secretary of ILLA in September 2023 for a four-year term. Her main lines of research are Forensic Linguistics, Legal Linguistics, and Pragmatics. Her latest publications include the two monographs: The Language of Harassment. Pragmatic Perspectives on Language as Evidence (Lexington Books, 2024) and Hate Speech. Linguistic Perspectives (De Gruyter, 2023), three volumes: Manual of Romance Forensic Linguistics, co-edited with Dieter Stein (De Gruyter, 2025); From Fear to Hate: Legal-Linguistic Perspectives on Migration, co-edited with Antonio Doval Pais and Dieter Stein (De Gruyter, 2023), Language as Evidence: Doing Forensic Linguistics, co-edited with Dieter Stein (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022); and the article “Language and Law,” co-authored with Jan Engberg, published in the International Encyclopedia of Linguistics, 3rd edition. ed. (Elsevier). Guillén Nieto has given lectures on Forensic Linguistics at various universities in Spain, China, the US, France, Portugal, Germany, Italy, and the Czech Republic. Since 2009, she has been an officially registered expert linguist in Spain and has also worked for legal firms in the US and Sweden. She has provided technical assistance to lawyers in thirty cases related to authorship identification, trademark disputes, plagiarism detection, statement credibility assessment, sexual harassment, emotional manipulation, and gender-based violence.