Professor Miguel Ángel Pérez-Nieto holds a PhD in Psychology and is Dean of the Faculty of Education and Health at Camilo José Cela University. Co-director of the Nonverbal Behavior Analysis Group at the same university.

Miguel Ángel Pérez-Nieto has been associate professor in the Dept. of Basic Psychology (Cognitive Processes) at UCM, and is currently professor in the Dept. of Psychology at UCJC, having directed more than a dozen doctoral theses.

Miguel Ángel Pérez-Nieto currently participates as a lecturer in postgraduate courses at different universities.

His research activity, which has focused on the study of the relationships between emotion and cognition in applied contexts of education and health, has resulted in more than seventy publications in relevant scientific journals in his field.