María Teresa Ocaña Moral is a Hired Doctor Teacher at the University of Jaén. She is a member of the Department of Didactics of Sciences. She has graduated in Chemical Sciences (2002) and holds a Ph.D. in Didactics of Science (2006). She has been working for more than 15 years in the area of Didactics of Experimental Sciences, teaching subjects in this area of knowledge, first in the old Teacher Graduate Degrees and later in the Early Childhood Education Degree and in the University Master's Degree in Compulsory Secondary Education and Baccalaureate Teaching, Professional Training and Language Teaching. She is a member of the research group HUM-819 (Curricular and Didactic Research in Experimental Sciences) and regularly collaborates with the research group TEP-233 (Chemical and Environmental Engineering). Her research focuses on four main areas: Teacher Training in Didactics of Experimental Sciences, Development of Professional Teaching Competencies, Environmental Education and Didactics of Olive Oil.