Professor Víctor Soler is PhD in Sociology from the University of Valencia (Spain) in the area of sociology. Specialized in qualitative research and school dropout processes, his doctoral thesis was entitled "Deconstructing and reconstructing school success and failure in Compulsory Secondary Education". He has authored several publications, as well as being a speaker at numerous sociology and education conferences. In 2012 he was a visiting scholar at the Paulo Freire Institute at UCLA (USA), tutored by the distinguished Professor Carlos Alberto Torres, president of the World Council of Comparative Education Societies from 2013 to 2016. He has developed his teaching and research activity at the University of Valencia (UV) (2009-2015) and, since 2016, at Florida Universitaria (Spain), training future teachers of Early Childhood and Primary Education and participating in international projects, such as the European PAL Project, for the fight against discrimination of the Roma community in the field of education and employment, or the European PAL WOMEN Project "Boosting Female Social Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Creation for Inclusion Groups".