Marisa Revilla Blanco is a Professor in the Department of Applied Sociology at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM). She is currently a member of the Advisory Board of Volunteca, a project by the Spanish Volunteering Platform and the Pere Tarrés Foundation.

She has an extensive academic and professional career. Her main research interests are the problems of collective action, social movements, democratic participation and NGOs, with special emphasis on issues of gender and inequality. She is the author of numerous books, articles and research papers.

She has been Director of the Centre for Latin American (CeALCI) of the Carolina Foundation (2008-12), and a Vocal Advisor in the Cabinet of the Presidency of the Government (in the Department of Education and Culture between 2006 and 2008 and in the Department of Analysis and Studies between 2004 and 2006). She also worked at the Jaime Vera Foundation between 1995 and 1998.

Her teaching focuses on the fields of political sociology and sociology of gender, volunteering, NGOs and third sector, gender and development. She has been Coordinator of the PhD Program in Sociology and Anthropology at the Complutense University of Madrid (2020-22), and from 2013 to 2017 she was Director of the Department of Sociology I (Social Change).

She holds a PhD in Political Science and Sociology from the Complutense University of Madrid.