Mercedes Jiménez won a Maria Zambrano senior researcher contract (Arts and Humanities area), Department of Anthropology Social, Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, Autonomous University of Madrid and she is a postdoctoral researcher at cross-border center for cultural action and social research (ACRES) in Tangier, Morocco.  She has extensive experience as a postdoctoral PI researcher with 10years’ postdoctoral work in Portugal and Spain, at University of Algarve (2012-2017), at Complutense University of Madrid (2018-2021) and  at Autonomous University of Madrid (2023/2024). She has taken part in eleven different R&D&i projects through competitive tendering processes. She has and 10 years’ experience teaching undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral students in universities in Spain (UAM, UCM, US), Portugal (University of Algarve) and Morocco (INAS; Abdelmalek Essaâdi University). PhD in Social Anthropology, Autonomous University of Madrid (2011). ANECA accredited as a PhD lecturer, private university professor and PhD assistant lecturer. Her research focuses on the analysis of the history of child mobility  ; cultural studies of childhood and child and youth circulation; the processes of coloniality and development cooperation (coloniality and development studies). She has been a visiting researcher in Morocco (Mohamed V University, Rabat (2001) and the National Institute of Social Action, Tangier (2009-2011); England (Bodleian Social Science Library and James Martin 21st Century School, Oxford (2011); Brazil (Federal University of Bahia, Salvador de Bahia (2013); and Tunisia (Bourguiba Institute of Modern Languages (2012). She is fluent in Moroccan Arabic, English, French, Italian and Portuguese. Dr Jiménez is a reviewer for the Revista Española de Sociología (RES); Migraciones (Comillas); and Revista Migraciones Internacionales (Colef-Conacyt-Mexico) and sits on the editorial board of the Revista de Estudios Internacionales Mediterráneos (REIM). She has given lectures at 90 international conferences. She has also participated in international professional organizations, including the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA), the World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES), the Asociación Andaluza de Antropología (ASANA), the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) and the Foro de Investigadores del Mundo Árabe y Musulmán (FIMAM). She co-directed the doctoral thesis, ‘Las migraciones inesperadas: Marruecos y Turquía entre diversidad y seguridad’, which was defended by Hafsa Afailal at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili in 2016. Participation as an outside expert evaluator for two doctoral theses (2012 and 2014) and jury member for four doctoral theses (2014, 2015, 2016) and she had directed 7 TFG/TFM. Dr Jiménez is an honorary teacher in the Department of Anthropology at UAM. In 2018, she received the ‘Nacho de la Mata’ Human Rights Award from the Spanish General Advocacy Council. Her leadership in the field is demonstrated by her 37 publications in high-impact journals: 8 SSCI indexed articles (JCR/SJR/LATINDEX) and 26 books and book chapters whose publishers are indexed by Scholarly Publishers Indicators, 17 in the highest quartiles (Q1 and Q2) (Routledge 3ª and Springer 4ª; UGR; Bellaterra; Icaria, AKAL, SXXI). She has 2 edited books (UGR/ AKAL) and 1 book (SM). It is i3 acredited.B.1. Breve descripción del Trabajo de Fin de Grado (TFG) y puntuación obtenida No procedeB.2. Breve descripción del Trabajo de Fin de Máster (TFM) y puntuación obtenida No procede