PhD in Architecture with the thesis “The staircase and the house: path architecture” from the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura of A Coruña in 2003.
María Cascales Doctor degree (phD) in Biochemistry (1961) from the Complutense University (Madrid). Post doctoral fellow, in Kansas City (USA) 1965 – 1966). Royal Society Fellow in London (UK) 1973-1974. Specialist in Clinical Biochemistry. Director of the Institute of Biochemistry at the Faculty of Pharmacy 1983 -1989.
María Dolores Pérez is associate lecturer of the department of medicine and surgery of UCM. She wrote a chapter in: Hypoadrenocorticism in Dogs (Melián, C., Pérez-Alenza, M. D. & Peterson M. E., Textbook of Veterinary Internal Medicine, 7th edition, 2010).
María del Carmen Gómez Gómez (Salamanca, 1979) studied special needs education, speech-language & hearing, and children's education, and has a degree in pedagogy. She also has a Master's degree in the education of people with sensory disabilities. She has worked as a special needs teacher and speech-language therapist in the counselling & guidance department of the Colegio Marista La Inmaculada in Lugo.
The author is professor and chair of psychopedagogy at the Paculty of Psychology and Education of the University of Deusto.