Urban architect and Master in Equal Opportunities, she is a researcher for the UNESCO Chair in Gender Policies in Science, Technology and Innovation at the Polytechnic University of Madrid, and lecturer in the Department of Urban Planning at the Polytechnic University of Valencia. Her two lines of research address, on the one hand, equality and gender policies in the fields of technology and innovation, and on the other hand, architectural and urban planning and design with a gender perspective. With experience in several architecture and urban planning studios, she has been a guest lecturer in different Spanish, European and American universities. Inés is an advisor and consultant for several public and private entities, highlighting her work on gender in housing, urban planning or mobility for the Spanish Government, different regional governments, the Inter-American Development Bank or UN Habitat. Inés has a long record of accomplishment in the design and delivery of ad-hoc training programmes for technical and management staff on gender and spatial planning. She has been responsible for different participatory processes with women related to quality and safety in public space and transport, being the author of their design, implementation and feedback. Because of this research, her work was part of the Spanish Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2018. She has been selected by the ARL Academy of Spatial Planning in Germany to be part of the International Working Group on Gender and Climate Change in Spatial and Urban Planning in Europe. She is a founding member of the Spanish Association of Women Architects (AMAE) and editor for Western Europe of the Bloomsbury Global Encyclopaedia of Women in Architecture. In 2022, she was appointed member of the Consell Local del Disseny of the city of Valencia. She is the author of several manuals on gender mainstreaming in different fields of spatial planning and design.
