He took a degree in Psychology at the University of Santiago de Compostela and a doctor’s degree in Psychopedagogy at the University of A Coruña. He worked as a Professor of Education Psychology at the University of Oviedo from 1989 to 1991. Nowadays he is a Professor of Education Psychology and head of the Department of Evolutionary and Education Psychology at the University of A Coruña. He was the founder of the Galician Association of Psychopedagogy and editor of Revista Galega de Psicopedagoxía. He was on the editorial staff of several scientific magazines and associate editor of Revista Iberoamericana de Psicología y Salud. He is the author of many national and international scientific publications about education psychology (academic motivation, learning strategies and influence on the student’s learning).
These are some of the most important works he wrote in collaboration with other authors:
−Manual de Psicología de la Educación. Madrid: Pirámide.
−Estrategias y Técnicas de Estudio. Cómo Aprender a Estudiar Estratégicamente. Madrid: Pearson Prentice Hall.
−Los Recursos Motivacionales. Programa para Mejorar su Gestión. Madrid: CEPE.
−El Estudiante Eficaz. Aprendizaje y Enseñanza de Habilidades de Estudio. Madrid: CCS.
−Handbook of Instructional Resources and their Applications in the Classroom. Nueva York: Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
−Motivar enseñando. La integración de estrategias motivadoras en el currículo escolar. Madrid: CCS.
He has also published many scientific articles in famous international magazines about Psychology and Education: British Journal of Educational Psychology, Psychology in the Schools, Research in Higher Education, Psicothema, Learning and Individual Differences, Universitas Psychologica, The Spanish Journal of Psychology, Revista Mexicana de Psicología, Revista Latinoamericana de Psicología and European Journal of Psychology of Education.