Doctor of Education, Senior Lecturer in Teaching Education and Education Management at the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB) and vice president of the Conference of Deans of Education. Currently he is the president of the Majorcan School Board (Consell Escolar de Mallorca). He is a member of the editorial board for various journals and a member of editorial committees for both national and international teaching-related works. Be part of the scientific committee of the PROA + Program of the Ministry of Education and Vocational Training, of The International Observatory on the Teaching Profession's (Observatori Internacional de la Professió Docent) and the board of directors of the Catalan Pedagogy Society. He was the department head of the UIB's Educational Sciences Institute (Institut de Ciències de l'Educació) (2011-2016) as well as the first department head of the Education Research and Innovation Institute (Institut de Recerca i Innovació Educativa) (2015-2016). He was also the vice-dean and head of studies for Education Sciences in the Education Department at the UIB (2004-2010). He has been in charge of various postgraduate and master's programmes regarding human resources, cultural management, and teacher and administrator training for education centres. He was the UIB's representative to the Balearic Islands' School Board (Consell Escolar de les Illes Balears) for eight years. He is a member of the Education and Citizenship research group.

Areas of research

-Courses of training and work life

-Academic integrity

-Teacher training

-Environmental education

Latest competitive research projects

- Teaching practice and the prevention of early abandonment of vocational training: empirical approach and intervention proposal (2020-2024) (R+D+I Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness).

-Successful and unsuitable courses of vocational training at levels 1 and 2 in the education system (2014-2018) (I+D+I [Research, development, and innovation] Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness).

-Proposal for a competency reference framework for university professors and adjustment of training schemes based on teaching skills (2012-2014) (REDU [State Network of University Teaching]).

Selected publications from the last five years

Oliver-Trobat, M. F. (2023). Las pruebas de admisión a los estudios de Maestro: Aristas y oportunidades. Didacticae, 14, 1a-3a. https://doi.org/10.1344/did.2023.14.1-3

Álvarez-García, O., Sureda-Negre, J., Comas-Forgas, R. & Oliver-Trobat, M.F. (2023). The Spanish population's interest in climate change based on Internet searches. Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 10(1), 1-9
https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-023-01736-5

- Aguilar, E., Salvà, F., Imbernon, F., & Oliver, M. F. (2023). Influence of qualifications in initial training on the professional development and motivation of primary teachers in the Balearic Islands. European Journal of Teacher Education, 46(2), 308-330. https://doi.org/10.1080/02619768.2021.1912005

- Oliver, M.F. & Rosselló, M.R. (Coord.) (2022). Transformant la formació inicial del professorat: el paradigma realista. Lleonard Muntaner Editors.

- Oliver, M.F.; Rosselló, M.R.; Comas, R.L.; Calvo, A.M. & Sureda, J. (2021). Modelo para las pruebas de admisión a los estudios de maestro a partir de un proceso de diseño participativo. Revista de educación, 393, 261-291.

- Oliver, M.F.; Cerdà, A.; Guerrero, M.A.; Bocchio, C. (2021). La influencia de las emociones en la educación secundaria ante la COVID-19: Un estudio desde la percepción de las familias. En: Innovación e investigación educativa para la formación docente, p. 1407-1421. Editorial Dykinson.

- Oliver, M.F.; Amorós, J. & Sureda, J. (2020). La Formación Inicial del Profesorado en los pactos educativos autonómicos. El caso de las Illes Balears. Crónica. Revista científico profesional de la Pedagogía y Psicopedagogía, 5, 65-80.

- Sureda-Negre, J.; Oliver-Trobat, M.F. & Comas-Forgas, R. L. (2020). Improving the Training of Primary School Teachers: Agreements and Disagreements Between Active Teachers and University Professors. Educational Practice and Theory, 42(2), 79-104

- Salvà, F., Ruíz, M., Psifidou, I. & Oliver, M.F. (2020). Formación Profesional de grado medio y abandono temprano de la educación y la formación en España: una aproximación territorial. Bordon, 72(4), 95-116.