María Rúa Alonso holds a Bachelor's Degree in Physical Activity and Sport Sciences (2013), a Master's in Research in Physical Activity, Sport and Health (2016), and an International PhD in Sport Sciences, Physical Education, and Healthy Physical Activity (2022) from the University of A Coruña (UDC). During her undergraduate studies, she worked as a researcher at the UDC through a Laboratory Collaboration Grant in 2012, and during her doctoral training, she participated as a researcher in various projects and collaborations of the Performance and Health Group of the UDC with public and private institutions. In parallel with her thesis project, since 2018 and until 2021, she has been working as a research assistant on projects developed by the SXD Galicia Ativa Chair of the Galician Sports Foundation in association with the University of A Coruña Foundation. She completed two international stays at the Faculty of Sport of the University of Porto, at the Centro de Investigação em Atividade Física, Saúde e Lazer (CIAFEL), both funded by Spanish institutions. During her PhD, she collaborated as a lecturer on Bachelor's Degree in Physical Activity and Sports Sciences, Master's Degree in the Promotion of Healthy Physical Activity and Training Adapted to Pathologies, and Interuniversity Master's Degree in Research in Physical Activity, Sport and Health at the UDC. In her post-doctoral period, she taught in the 2022-2023 academic year for the Bachelor's Degree in Early Childhood Education at the University of Vigo Currently, She is an associate researcher at UDC under a Margarita Salas postdoc. In 2023, she completed an international post-doctoral stay at the Centre for Research in Sports Sciences, Health Sciences and Human Development (CIDESD), specifically at the Polytechnic Institute of Guarda (Portugal). Additionally, she is continuing her research from her doctoral thesis with a project funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation titled “Cardiovascular adaptations to resistance exercise: effect of set configuration in postmenopausal normo and hypertensive women: CARE project”. To date, she has published 12 articles (all JCR). The number of citations since 2018 is 90 and the H index is 5. She has presented 39 conference communications, including 3 plenary sessions. She has received 5 awards for conference works and 1 award for scientific publications for the first article in her PhD. Additionally, she is a member of the educational innovation group InDex and has worked on educational innovation and dissemination projects in various contexts.