MARIA SIMARRO VAZQUEZ

MARIA SIMARRO VAZQUEZ is a Professor in the Department of Philology at the University of Burgos, affiliated with the Faculty of Humanities and Communication. She specializes in Spanish Language and Spanish as a Foreign Language, with a research focus on lexical-semantic competence assessment through verbal humor in language learning contexts.

Her academic affiliation includes participation in the INFORELE research group dedicated to Spanish as a foreign language. She earned her PhD from the University of Burgos with a thesis titled La evaluación de la competencia léxico-semántica de hablantes de español como lengua extranjera a través del humor verbal (2014), supervised by Dr. Hermógenes Perdiguero Villarreal.