Karla Lobos-Peña is Research Director of the Laboratorio de Innovación e Investigación Educativa of the Universidad de Concepción´s Education Department. Her research lines are applied intervention in educational psychology, cognitive motivational variables involved in retention/dropout, and innovation in teaching through virtual tools and active methodology. She has been a researcher and academic at the Departamento de Psicología of the Facultad de Ciencias Sociales of the Universidad de Concepción and coordinator of the area of Specialization in Educational Psychology at the Universities of San Sebastián, Santo Tomás, and Andrés Bello. As an undergraduate university professor, she has taught the classes of Introducción a la Psicología Educacional, Educación y Problemas Contemporáneos, Psicología Educacional Panorama Actual, Diagnóstico e Intervención en Psicología Educacional, and Psicología del Aprendizaje, among others. As a postgraduate teacher she has taught the class of Intervención Educativa, Efectividad y Mejoramiento Escolar, Diseño y Evaluación de Proyectos de Intervención Psicológica, and guided master's and doctoral theses. She is the coordinator and author of two books on educational psychology: "Intervención en Psicología Educacional: Herramientas Iniciales" (Ediciones Universidad Santo Tomás) and "Promoción de la Autorregulación del Aprendizaje para el Aula Universitaria" (Editorial Santo Tomás).