María José Hernández Amorós has an international PhD in Educational Research from the University of Alicante with a cum laude distinction. She currently works as a lecturer in the area of Teaching Methods and School Organisation, in the Department of General & Specific Teaching Methods.

In her academic career, she has received training in the field of education, having gained a Degree in Early Childhood Education, a Second-Cycle Undergraduate Degree in Psychopedagogy and a Master's Degree in Educational Research; she won the Special Award for the latter two degrees. She has participated in numerous specialisation courses and undertaken two predoctoral stays at two prestigious universities: the University of Cambridge and the University of Nottingham.

As a researcher, her main lines of work are educational leadership, education for sustainable development, educational innovation and tutorial action in higher education institutions. On these topics, she has a wide range of publications with JCR and SJR impact in the field of Social Sciences. Recently, she has led the LEDS project (Educational Leadership for Sustainable Development) and is participating in other national and international projects such as, for example, the DUPAS project (Towards Universal Design for Social Participation: multiple case study on implementation and improvement of social participation from an inclusive perspective) of the National R&D&i Plan. It gathers a considerable number of book chapters, as well as contributions to national and international congresses and conferences.

As a lecturer, she has taught on different degrees (First-Cycle Undergraduate Degree in Teaching, Undergraduate Degree in Early Childhood Education, Undergraduate Degree in Primary Education, Second-Cycle Undergraduate Degree in Psychopedagogy) and courses. She has been in charge of supervising undergraduate theses, besides sitting on many undergraduate and Master’s thesis assessment panels. She has taken numerous specialisation courses and seminars and has been a member and coordinator of several research networks for university teaching. She has also coordinated the Tutorial Action Plan of the Faculty of Education, in which she has been a tutor for many years.