Degree in Psychology from the University of Granada, a Diploma in Social Work from the University of Zaragoza and a PhD in Psychology from the University of Zaragoza. He has worked as a psychologist, as director of a school–workshop and as head of the Psychological Guidance Service with students with behavior problems for 17 years. In addition, he has been Associate Professor at the University of Zaragoza for six years. He is a full-time professor-doctor of Psychology at the University of Zaragoza since 2010. He is currently a Contracted Professor-Doctor in the Department of Psychology and Sociology at the University of Zaragoza. He is the principal investigator of the OPIICS Research Group "Observatory for Research and Innovation in Social Sciences" of the University of Zaragoza, qualified as a reference group. He is the author of several manuals in the field of Psychology, as well as more than 100 articles in prestigious journals, 50 of them indexed in JCR. He has directed 5 doctoral theses and more than 20 TFG and TFM. His areas of work are the psychology of childhood and adolescence, emotional intelligence, the validation of psychological questionnaires and the psychopathology of childhood and adolescence.