Angel Barrasa (Guadalajara-Spain, 1978) received his PhD Doctor Europeus in Work and Organizational Psychology from Complutense University of Madrid with the thesis "Integrating leadership behavior and climate perceptions in teamwork: Antecedents, structure, and influence in work groups' innovation, satisfaction, and effectiveness in organizations." He is currently member of the European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology EAWOP, International Association of Applied Psychology IAAP, Academy of Management AOM, and American Psychological Association APA’s divisions of International Psychology and Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology SIOP, as well of the Spanish Psychological Association COP.

Angel has published in international scientific journals as International Journal of Selection and Assessment, Journal of International Business Studies, Personality and Individual Differences, Journal of Managerial Psychology, Europe’s Journal of Psychology, European Psychologist or International Journal of Psychology, as well Spanish ones as Psicothema, Spanish Journal of Psychology or Revista de Psicología del Trabajo y de las Organizaciones. He is ad-hoc reviewer at European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, Psicothema, and Revista de Psicología del Trabajo y de las Organizaciones.

Sponsored by the Spanish Department of Education and Science, he worked as predoctoral fellow at State University of New York at Albany, Michigan State University, and Aston University, supervised by Gary A. Yukl, Steve W. J. Kozlowski, and Michael A. West, respectively. He has been member of TEAMWORK Dirección, liderazgo y desarrollo de equipos de trabajo Research Group at Department of Social Psychology of the Complutense University of Madrid since 2001, and Spanish country co-investigator of the intercultural leadership GLOBE project. He has been Invited Professor at Maastricht University, University of Bucarest and at Humboldt University of Berlin.

Since 2009 he is Assistant Professor at Department of Psychology & Sociology of the University of Zaragoza. Since 2008 he is recognized by the Spanish National Agency for Quality Assessment and Accreditation ANECA as "Profesor Titular" in the state university system. His research is focused on leadership for innovation, team climate, intragroup relations, and team effectiveness.