Marcos Jesús Iglesias Martínez earned a PhD in Educational Research, Curriculum and Professional Development from the University of Alicante (UA), receiving the PhD Special Award. He is currently a senior lecturer in Didactics and School Organisation at the UA Faculty of Education. Winner of the DOCENTIA-UA Award for Teaching Excellence in multiple years. Coordinator of the practicum course on the Undergraduate Degree in Child Education. Member of the Qualitative Research Group in Education, Teaching and Learning (GICEDA) and of the UA Institute for Gender Studies Research. Former member of the Center for Qualitative Psychology at the University of Tübingen, Germany. Within the PhD Programme in Educational Research, he is in charge of the research line on Teacher Training and Learning. Former deputy coordinator of the UA Education Science Institute’s Networks for University Teaching. His lines of research are oriented towards initial training and professional development of teachers, designs of educational processes, gender, student and teacher mobility, Higher Education and qualitative research in education. He has published in different national and international journals in the field of Educational Sciences and regularly participates as a reviewer in different journals whose research topic is teacher professional development. He has directed several doctoral theses on teacher training with a qualitative approach. Likewise, he has been a collaborator, coordinator and principal investigator in various research and teaching innovation projects.