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Dr. María Luisa Azpíroz received her BA in Journalism (2003-2007) and her PhD in Communication (2007-2011) from the University of Navarra. She obtained the Extraordinary Doctorate Award. She did postdoctoral research in International Relations with a Marie Curie fellowship at the Université de Liège (2013-2015). Since 2016, she has been working as a teacher-researcher at the School of Communication at Universidad Panamericana (Mexico campus), where she has taught the subjects Geopolitics and Communication, Contemporary Universal Environment and Current Affairs Seminar. She also teaches the public diplomacy module of the Master's Degree in Political and Public Communication. She is a member of the National System of Researchers (level 1) and is categorized as Full Professor A with emphasis on research by the UP. She has articles in journals indexed in Scopus such as "Comunicación y Sociedad", "Estudios sobre el Mensaje Periodístico" or "Brazilian Journalism Research".