Juan Luis Castejón Costa has been a Full Professor in the area of Developmental Psychology and Didactics at the University of Alicante since 2002. His research focuses on instructional design, the structure of intelligence and its educational implications, motivation and its relationship with academic performance, expert competence analysis, emotional intelligence and its connections to employability, and factors influencing academic achievement. He has supervised 35 doctoral theses and published approximately 100 articles in national and international journals, most of them indexed in JCR, with half of them in Q1 and Q2. He has been a Research Affiliate and Visiting Professor at Yale University (USA). In 1995, he served as an advisor for the IV Framework Programme for Research of the European Union. He has also been an external evaluator for the Education area of ANEP/AEI (Spanish Research Agency) and, from 2021 to 2023, was a member of the D-18 Commission of ANECA. He has received six positive teaching evaluations and has been awarded six consecutive research periods by CNEAI. Currently, he is Director of the Research Group on Skills, Competencies, and Instruction and the Coordinator of the PhD Program in Educational Research at the University of Alicante.