Doctor in Law from the University of Salamanca with Extraordinary Doctorate Award (2000), having carried out research stays in: Kansas University School of Law (Lawrence, USA, 1997) Visiting professor at the University of Michigan School of Law (Ann Arbor, USA, 2005) Visiting Professor at the Universidade do Minho (Portugal, 2013) “Rafael Martínez Emperador” Award, 2009, General Council of the Judiciary, for the best unpublished work of legal research on “mediation” (BOE December 23, 2009). Codex 2006 Award for the best teaching work. Faculty of Law, University of Salamanca. Principal investigator in several competitive research projects at European, national and regional level (in subjects such as: international judicial cooperation, mediation, victims and minors, and artificial intelligence applied to the judicial process Author of four monographs:

• The execution of the mortgage guarantee on real estate (2000)
• The Penitentiary Surveillance Judge as guarantor of the rights of prisoners (2003)
• Mediation: complementary system of Administration of Justice (2010)
• Mediation in the contentious-administrative field (2018)
• Author of numerous book chapters, articles and comments in indexed national and international legal journals, as well as speaker and in national and international public and private organizations on subjects such as: civil forced execution, bankruptcy proceedings, international legal cooperation, legal protection of credit, community procedural law and extrajudicial alternatives for conflict resolution and mediation.
• Advisor to the Editorial Board of the “Public Law” Collection of the State Agency Official State Gazette
• Non-practicing lawyer, member number, 1358, Illustrious Bar Association of Zamora