Verónica Onrubia Martínez is a pre-doctoral research fellow in training at the Department of General Didactics and Specific Didactics, Faculty of Education, University of Alicante (UA), thanks to an ACIF grant for pre-doctoral research staff awarded by the Valencian Regional Government (CIACIF/2024/150). She is part of the Doctoral Programme in Educational Technology Applied to Knowledge (TEAC) at the same university.

She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Primary Education from the University of Castilla-La Mancha and an Official Master’s degree in Information and Communication Technologies for Education and Digital Learning from Antonio de Nebrija University. She is also a research fellow with the International and Interdisciplinary Research Group on Technologies, Emerging Teaching Methods and Innovation (ITECDEI) at the University of Alicante.

Her research focuses on educational technology, artificial intelligence applied to education, and social robotics. She has participated in national and international research projects, notably MEEBAI: A Methodology for Emotion-Aware Education Based on Artificial Intelligence and the European project SPARK-COIL: Strengthen and Promote Academic Agility, Resilience, and Knowledge Exchange through Collaborative Online International Learning, funded by the European Union’s Erasmus+ programme.

She previously held the post of Senior Researcher in the Department of Catalan Philology at the University of Alicante, where she was part of the Multilingual Observatory of Linguistic Variation project (Ref. CIPROM/2023/6). Furthermore, during the first year of her PhD, she was awarded a research grant by the International Centre for Ageing Research (ICAR) Foundation, an experience that enabled her to further her research into social robotics.

In the field of teaching, she has contributed to university teaching activities linked to her pre-doctoral research, as well as to postgraduate programmes at the Ortega-Marañón Institute and the Global Institute of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences in the Dominican Republic. Furthermore, she has actively participated in international conferences by presenting scientific papers and serving on organising committees.