José Luis Aróstegui (BMus, BEd, PhD Ed) is Professor of Music at the Department of Music Education of the University of Granada, Spain. He has participated in many research projects and is currently leading an R&D project funded by the Spanish government on "Transversality, Transversal Competences and Inclusiveness of Music Education: An Evaluative Research" (2022-2025). He is also a member of the International Advisory Board of the research project "Pilot experience of a musical pedagogy oriented towards human rights education: Proposal of pedagogical guidelines for the initial training of music teachers", led by the Pablo Hurtado University of Chile. As a result of his research, he has presented papers at national and international conferences, published numerous scientific articles (in IJME; BCRME; AEPR...) and books (Routledge, OUP, Sense Publishers...).

José Luis has been a member of ISME since 2002. He hosted the 2004 MISTEC seminar at the University of Granada and served as MISTEC Commissioner (2004-2010) and Chair (2008-2010). José Luis has been a member of the IJME Research Editorial Board from 2004 to 2016, and Editor-in-Chief of Revista Internacional de Educación Musical, the ISME journal in Spanish, from 2013 to 2023, the last three years as Co-Editor.