María Elia Gutiérrez Mozo (ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5368-7593). Architect from the University of Navarra, 1992. PhD in Architecture from the Polytechnic University of Madrid, 1999. Professor of Architectural Theory at the University of Alicante (UA). Principal investigator of the project “Situated views: women’s architecture in Spain from peripheral perspectives, 1978-2008”, funded by the Generalitat Valenciana (2021-2023) and member of the research team of the national project «Women in (post)modern architectural culture Spanish (2019-2021)”. Her line of research, also developed at the University Institute for Research in Gender Studies of the UA, braids what is close with what is necessary, the social, cooperative and participatory with the perspective of gender and sustainability and is characterized by the qualitative approach, sensitive and contextualized to the topics of study. Recently, their team research work has been distinguished in the IV and VI Edition of the Urbanism, Mobility, Landscape, Housing and Architecture with a Gender Perspective Awards of the Generalitat Valenciana (2020, 2022), at the XV Spanish Architecture Biennial and Urbanism (2021), in the I Architecture and Urbanism Awards of the Institute of Architects of Castilla La Mancha (2022) and with the Lilly Reich Scholarship for Academic Research for Equality in Architecture. She directs the Environment Experiences Architecture Research Group. She has been Coordinator of the Ibero-American Architecture and Urbanism Biennial (2006-2012) and Director of the UA Campus Development Secretariat (2013-2020).
