I am Sandra Merino Verona, PhD Candidate in Business in the Department of Business Administration at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) in Spain.
My research areas are Leadership and Team Dynamics. My specific interest lies in the underlying processes through which working teams adapt to unexpected changes, adopting a social network analytical approach to capture the multilevel and dynamic complexities inherent to teamwork.
Feel free to get in touch at smerino@emp.uc3m.es
Education
Ph.D. in Business and Finance, September 2022 - July 2026 (Expected)
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Spain)
Dissertation Topic: Basis of Team Adaptation
Advisors: Ramón Rico and Sjir Uitdewilligen
Fulbright predoctoral resrarcher, May 2025 - December 2025
University of South Florida (United States)
Supervisor: Daniel Griffin
Visiting scholar, October 2023 - December 2023
University of South Florida (United States)
Supervisor: Marylène Gagné
Master of Research in Business and Finance, September 2021 - July 2023
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Spain)
Best academic record and extraordinary award in the Master's Degree, class of 2022/2023.
Outstanding Master’s Thesis: "Teamwork dynamic processes: A Longitudinal Examination of Team Motivation Emergence"
Supervisor: Ramón Rico
Thesis Committee: Eduardo Melero (Chair), Raffaele Morandi and Nicolas Deuschel.
Master of Science in Methodology of Behavioral and Health Sciences, October 2020 - September 2022
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia and Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain)
GPA: 9.2 / 10.0
Outstanding Master’s Thesis: “Evaluating prosocial motivation in adults according to
self-determination theory: Spanish adaptation and psychometric study of the prosocial self-regulation questionnaire (SRQ-P) for adults.”
Supervisor: Pedro Rodríguez-Miñón Cifuentes.
Master's Degree in Work Organization and Human Resource Management, October 2018 - October 2020
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and Business School of the Official Chamber of Commerce, Industry, and Services of Madrid (Spain)
GPA: 8.5 / 10.0
Outstanding Master’s Thesis: “Job posting: What elements of the job posting influence the decision to apply for the job?”
Supervisor: Hilda Gambara D'Errico.
Bachelor Degree in Psychology, September 2014 - July 2018
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain)
GPA: 8.9 / 10.0
Honors Thesis: “Measuring satisfaction in HR consulting: development and
psychometric study of five scales”.
Supervisor: Antonio Pardo
Semester abroad: August - December 2017 at Universidad de Buenos Aires (Argentina).
Research & Difusion
Available via BASE