Full University Professor at the Department of Didactics in Musical, Plastic and Bodily Expression of the Universidad de Granada. Extraordinary Doctorate Award in Education Sciences (UNED) and Third National Educational Research Award, 2004 (Spanish Ministry of Education and Science-CIDE). He has been awarded two CNEAI six-year terms in the field (educational science area), and is the author of scientific publications addressing research in musical education and educational research in a number of JCR indexed journals: Plos One, Frontiers in Psychology, Psicodidáctica, Infancia y Aprendizaje, Comunicar, Educación XX1, Cultura y Educación, Psychology of Music, etc.

He is currently coordinator of the Erasmus+ project 618625-EPP-1-2020-1-ES-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP - ECALFOR “Evaluation of Teacher Training in Latin America and the Caribbean. Educational qualification quality assurance". Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices, Action Capacity Building in higher education-Joint Projects. 2020-2024 https://erasmusplusfcced.webnode.es/ he has also served as Lead Researcher and participant in a number of national and international research projects and contracts (Comenius, Alfa, R&D+i). Speaker and visitor at congresses and universities in China, United Kingdom, Morocco, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Brazil, Thailand, El Salvador, Portugal, Argentina, Germany, Turkey, Greece, Romania, Spain, etc.

Active participation on university management bodies: Vice-Dean for Research, International Projects and Transfer (since November 2017). Vice-Dean for Research, Postgraduate and International Programmes (2008-2012). Vice-Dean for Students and University Outreach (2007-2008). Member of the University Teaching Staff Body, the Teaching and Research Staff Board of the UGR and the Department Management Board of at the Universidad de Granada (2006-2012) Faculty Secretary (2006). Coordinator of the official master's course in Musical Education Research, verified by the ANECA and accredited by the AGAE in 2015 and 2019: http://masteres.ugr.es/educacionmusical/ One of the five best education master's courses in Spain according to the El Mundo ranking of the 250 best Spanish University master's courses. Since 2019 it has held first place in these rankings http://www.elmundo.es/mejores-masters/ Director and Coordinator of national and international Postgraduate, Expert, Master's and Doctorate Programme courses funded by the AECID, the AACI and the UNIA in Spain, Latin America and Morocco (2005-2016). Coordinator of the Musical Education doctorate programme: a multidisciplinary perspective at the Universidad de Granada, Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas (Mexico) and Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua (Mexico), until 2016.

Director of 15 European and international doctoral theses read by doctoral students from Colombia, Brazil, El Salvador, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Romania and Spain. Participation in evaluation tasks: evaluator of the AVAP (Evaluation and Prospects Agency of Valencia), the ACSUG (University System Quality Agency of Galicia), the Madri+d Foundation and the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology of the Dominican Republic. Member of the Academic Commission of the official doctorate programme in Education Sciences at the Universidad de Granada.

Since 2010. He has served as a member of the monitoring and evaluation commission of the official doctorate programme in Teacher Training: educational practice and communication. Institution: Faculty of Teacher Training (Universitat de Barcelona) and technical/scientific evaluator of the European Union Alßan Programme. Institutions: European Union and Grupo Santander Association. He is currently editor of the Publicaciones journal of the Faculty of Education and Humanities of Melilla, indexed in Web of Science (ESCI) and Scopus-SJR (Q2) http://revistaseug.ugr.es/index.php/publicaciones

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