Capitolina Díaz Martínez

Capitolina Díaz Martínez holds a degree in Sociology and Political Science from the Complutense University of Madrid and a PhD in Sociology from the University of London (1994). This training consolidated her theoretical and methodological foundation in the critical sociological analysis of gender inequalities, science, and education. She has been a Professor of Sociology at the University of Valencia since 2016.
Her teaching experience has been developed in Spain and internationally, with ongoing participation in master's and doctoral programs, as well as in advanced training programs for researchers. She has been a visiting professor at leading universities such as Stanford and Harvard in the United States and the National Autonomous University of Mexico, among other Latin American and European institutions, fostering scientific exchange and transnational collaboration in gender and science studies. Along these lines, she has designed and taught specialized courses for thousands of researchers and doctoral students, and has promoted innovative teaching initiatives related, for example, to digital resources for the use of inclusive language. She has served as a reviewer for various national and international journals and for Spanish and Portuguese academic evaluation bodies.
She has been president of the Asturian Association of Sociology, Treasurer of the Spanish Federation of Sociology, Member of the executive committee and Head of Territorial Organizations of the European Sociological Association and Member of the Gender Sociology Committee of the International Sociological Association, as well as President of the Association of Women Researchers and Technologists of our country and of the European Federation of Women Scientists.
In parallel, she has assumed high-level institutional responsibilities in public equality policies, highlighting her work as director of the Women and Science Unit of the Ministry of Education and Science, research advisor at the Permanent Representation of Spain to the European Union, and Director General for Equality in Employment of the Ministry of Equality, directly linking sociological research with public action.
Her research output, the result of her national and international research projects, exceeds 140 scientific publications and is structured around lines such as the sociology of science with a gender perspective, sociology of education, feminist theories and methodologies, digital technologies, socialization and family, public policies for equality, and the recovery of pioneering women in sociology. She has actively participated in international projects and networks aimed at the structural transformation of scientific systems—among others, Money, Couples and Individualization, Gender-Net Plus, Futura, MATES, and studies on wage and care gaps—and has served as an advisor to national and international organizations to integrate a gender perspective into evaluation, research, and teaching.
She has received other awards related to the Sociology of Gender and women scientists.