Eva Maria Picado Valverde is a professor and researcher at the University of Salamanca. She has combined her teaching and research career with her professional career linked to social intervention with vulnerable groups (drug addicts, prisoners, minors in situations of vulnerability, female victims of gender violence, homelessness, and people at risk of social exclusion and migration), which is linked to different third sector organisations at local, regional, and national levels. The different lines of research in relation to the design and implementation of community programmes, psychosocial intervention with different groups, study of social vulnerability, community intervention with unprotected minors and "aporophobia", or discrimination from a psychosocial perspective. Lines of research include the following: Study of vulnerable groups and vulnerability processes in people in a situation of social exclusion. Study of delinquency and victimisation with people at risk of social exclusion. Discrimination against the poor "aporophobia". Social intervention with vulnerable groups.