Rosa Martinez-Cuadros is a postdoctoral researcher Juan de la Cierva at the University of Barcelona. She holds a Ph.D. in Sociology with International Distinction and Cum Laude Mention from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. She completed a postdoctoral stay at the University of Bergamo, and she was a visiting researcher at the University of Birmingham during her PhD. Her doctoral thesis was funded by FPU grants and focused on the study of Islam, gender, and political and social participation. In 2021, she received the “Peter B Clarke Memorial Essay Prize” for an essay based on her doctoral thesis.

She has collaborated on various research projects on religious diversity and public expressions of religion, with a gender perspective. In 2022, she received funding from INSBS to lead and carry out a project on Islam, gender, and health with fieldwork conducted in Barcelona and Tangier. Currently, she is researching the intersection of Islam, science, and health, specifically focusing on the case of infertility and the use of assisted reproduction techniques. She is a member of the board of FIMAM (Spanish Forum for Research on the Arab and Muslim World) and the Book Reviews Editor of the Journal of Religion in Europe.