Bárbara Ortuño Martínez is a Permanent Professor in the Department of General Didactics and Specific Didactics of the Faculty of Education of the University of Alicante. Graduated in Humanities and PhD in History from the University of Alicante, she was a CONICET (Argentina) Postdoctoral Fellow at the National University of Mar del Plata and the National University of the Northeast between 2012 and 2016. She is part of the University Institute of Social Studies of Latin America (IUESAL) and the University Institute of Research in Gender Studies (IUIEG) of the University of Alicante, where she is a member of the management team at the head of the Academic Secretariat, as well as the Editorial Committee of the journal Pasado y Memoria.

She has carried out various research stays and participated in numerous national and international conferences. Winner of the 12th Young Researchers Award of the Contemporary History Association and the runner-up award of the 3rd Miguel Artola Award for doctoral theses in 2011, her basic research addressed the Republican exile and post-war Spanish emigration in Argentina from the perspective of the subjects, focusing on the interaction of the different waves of migration, ethnic associations or the role of women in expatriation and in migratory networks. The results of this research have been published in journals such as Historia Social, Ayer or Storia delle Donne, highlighting her work Hacia el hondo bajo fondo… Inmigrantes y exiliados en Buenos Aires tras la Guerra Civil española (Biblioteca Nueva, 2018).

Currently, she concentrates her research, on the one hand, in the field of education in equality and democratic memory through the inclusion of gender and forced migration in teacher training.We highlight among her works "Teachers in training before historical and democratic memory. A case study based on the republican exile in Latin America", together with Rubén Blanes, in Education in historical and democratic memory... (Dykinson, 2023), "Female genealogies and initial teacher training. The role of Social Sciences Didactics for learning sustainability and global citizenship", together with Rocío Díez et al., Feminism/s (2024) or the teaching guide for Secondary and Baccalaureate teachers, coordinated together with Mónica Moreno: Activists without borders. The transnational commitment of women in the 20th century (University of Alicante, 2024).

 And on the other hand, on the Argentine exile of the seventies in the Iberian Peninsula from a gender and Women's History perspective, with special attention to the imbrications between militancy and daily life, feminist associationism and transnational solidarity between and towards Latin American exiles. His latest publications include: "Exiled motherhood: between commitment and daily life", in Desafiar los límites. Women and commitment between the public and the private in the 20th century (Comares, 2023), “Putting the body and (re)cognizing oneself in exile. The Latin American Women's Group in Barcelona in the 1970s” (Sílex, 2024) and together with David Beorlegui: “Gender, communes and counterculture. A transnational look at the Ibero-American hippie universe of the "long" sixties (1968-1982)” (Ayer, 2024).