Mercedes Vázquez-Vílchez obtained a degree in Geology at the University of Granada in 1997; in 1999 she obtained an FPDI Scholarship from the Junta de Andalucía and completed a doctorate in the Department of Geology of the University of Jaén in the Doctoral Program in Earth Sciences; and she achieved the title of doctor in 2003. In 2004, she obtained a postdoctoral scholarship from the MECD. In 2007, she entered the Program for Incorporation of the Own Plan of the University of Granada in the Department of Geodynamics until 2012, in which she obtained a scholarship at the Center of Excellence in Geothermal Energy of the Andes of the University of Chile, where she worked until 2015. In 2016, she became Interim Substitute Professor in the Department of Science Didactics at the University of Jaén. In 2018, she became a Doctoral Assistant Professor in the Department of Condensed Matter Physics, Crystallography and Mineralogy of the University of Valladolid. The same year, she joined the Department of Didactics of Experimental Sciences first as a PhD Assistant Professor and later as a PhD Contract Professor. In 2022, she became a Full University Professor. She is currently a member of the research group of the Junta de Andalucía “HUM613: Didactics of Experimental Sciences and Sustainability (DCEyS)”.