Professors and Researchers

Aurelio Corral Ruiz

Aurelio Corral Ruiz

Faculty of Health Sciences

Expert in the area of biomechanics and athlete assessment. He is part of the Spanish Cycling Federation in the training area. PhD student in Physical Activity and Sport Sciences at UNINI Mexico. Degree in Physical Activity and Sport Sciences from the University of León. Graduate in Physiotherapy from the University Camilo José Cela. Master's Degree in Sports Management from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.

Beatriz Pilar Suárez

Beatriz Pilar Suárez

Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities

Degree in Hispanic Philology (U. Santiago de Compostela). Master's Degree in Linguistics applied to the teaching of Spanish as a foreign language (U. de Jaén). Master's degree in teacher training of Spanish as a foreign language (U. de León / FUNIBER,). Researching in the area of second language teaching: Spanish as a foreign language (ELE), methodology and analysis of ELE manuals.

Belén Alonso Rincón

Belén Alonso Rincón

Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities

Law Degree from the University of Oviedo. For 16 years Mediator of the Organization of Extrajudicial Resolution of Labor Disputes in Cantabria, belonging to the Corps of Extrajudicial Mediators of the Government of Cantabria.  Labor, civil and commercial mediator of the Mediation Center of the Bar Association of Cantabria. Bankruptcy Administrator of the Bar Associations of Cantabria, Gijón, Oviedo, Bilbao, Vitoria, León, Burgos, Valladolid and Palencia. Lawyer since 1988, practicing law in the areas of labor, commercial, civil, family and criminal law. Professor of Criminal and Labor Law in the Master of Access to the Practice of Law at the School of Legal Practice of the Bar Association of Cantabria since 2004.

Bernadette Ehammer

Bernadette Ehammer

Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities

Master in Primary Education with specialization in Therapeutic Pedagogy at Pädagogische Hochschule der Steiermark, Graz. MA in Interdisciplinary Gender Studies at Karl-Franzens-Universität, Graz. Specialized training in adult literacy in immigration contexts and teaching German as a second language. Teacher in primary education in Austria and in German literacy. 9 years of experience as a German teacher in different educational contexts in Austria and Spain. Second languages in immigration contexts, attention to diversity, intersectionality and linguistic and educational policies.

Bruno Mezzetti

Bruno Mezzetti

Higher Polytechnic School

Full Professor and researcher since 2006 and Director of the Department of Agriculture (2009-2015) at the Polytechnic University of Marche (Italy). Director of the Doctoral School of Agriculture. Nearly thirty years of academic research careers, in which he has focused on different aspects of fruit breeding, biotechnology, cropping systems and fruit quality and consumer health benefits. Standard field programs on breeding and breeding systems are combined with laboratory studies applying new breeding techniques (cisgenesis and RNAi) to introduce important new traits (disease resistance and fruit quality).

Carla Álvarez Ferradas

Carla Álvarez Ferradas

Faculty of Health Sciences

Degree in Biology and Doctorates in Neuroscience. Hs worked as a researcher in the area of Neurophysiology, studying the role of neuromodulators in the development of various neuropsychiatric diseases and epilepsy. Currently, university professor of biological subjects applied to health sciences.