Carmen del Pilar Gallardo-Montes has a PhD in Educational Sciences from the University of Granada and a degree in Pedagogy with a Master's Degree in Psychopedagogical Intervention. She is currently working as Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Education Sciences (University of Granada).Her doctoral thesis, developed with a University Teacher Training Contract (FPU), deals with the use of Information and Communication Technologies with people with Autism Spectrum Disorder. The research was carried out in the Educational Communication Research Group (HUM-871) of the Department of Didactics and School Organization.In 2020 and 2022 she carried out two research stays at the Università degli Studi di Firenze (Italy), at the Department of Formazione, Lingue, Intercutura, Letterature e Psicologia FORLILPSI (Pedagogia Experimental M-PED/04) and, in 2025, she carried out a stay at the Instituto Politecnico da Guarda (Portugal).