Marisa Salanova is Full Professor of Social Psychology, specializing in Positive Organizational Psychology at the Universitat Jaume I (UJI). She is a founding member and outgoing president of the Spanish Society of Positive Psychology. She is the director of the research team 'WANT_Psychosocial Prevention and Healthy Organizations' at the UJI. Professor Salanova is a researcher of competitive and European projects on Well-being at Work and Organizations.
She has more than 300 national and international publications on occupational health psychology (job stress, burnout, technostress, work addiction...) and more recently, she has focused on Positive Psychology applied to work with publications on work engagement, flow at work, self-efficacy, positive and healthy organizations and organizational resilience. She has published in high-impact journals such as the Journal of Applied Psychology, Applied Psychology: An International Review, Anxiety, Stress & Coping, and Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. Author of several books, the last one: Positive Psychological Interventions to Develop Healthy and Resilient Organisations (2025).
