Maria Munné Tomàs is a Lecture Professor and Director of the Master's Program in Professional Mediation at the UPF Barcelona School of Management, and Director of the Chair of Citizen Mediation of the Barcelona Provincial Council and UPF-BSM. She is also an Associate Professor of the Department of Social Psychology and Quantitative Psychology in the Faculty of Psychology at the University of Barcelona (UB).

She is a supervisor of the professional practice of Criminal Mediators in the field of Ordinary Justice for the AGI Foundation of the Department of Justice, Generalitat de Catalunya, where she supervises the professional practice for the pedagogical teams of the Cre-Once Group. She is a member of the European Group of Magistrates for Mediation (GEMME), and has received the Professional Medal of Merit for her promotion of mediation from Diario de Mediación, Madrid.

Maria currently participates as a mediation expert in the "Family Needs Family" (Urgent Ukraine) Project of Caixa de Pensions and the Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration. She is a professional mediator practicing in private practice and a non-practicing professional mediator in the GENCAT mediators' registry. She has been Director of three mediation services within public organizations between 2001 and 2010 and an expert in the knowledge transfer program (Compartim) of the Centre for Legal Studies of Juvenile Criminal mediators from 2018 to 2022.

She was the principal investigator of the research grant for the study and analysis of areas of Catalan civil law (Order JUS/236/2016, of September 1).

She has published articles and books, and has participated in several international congresses in her discipline. She is the co-author of the Intervention Guide in cases of abusive sexual behaviour for the Centre for Legal Studies of GENCAT (2019), and has recently co-authored a published work, The Surrogate Victim: an Agent of Resilience.

Maria is a European expert of the Social Cohesion Program for Latin America of COMJIB (2015) Conference of Ministers of Justice of Latin American countries EUROSOCIAL Program.

She has been a consultant in the design of the training program of the European Master in Mediation, and lecturer and Final Project tutor (2000–2006) for the Institut Universitaire Kürt Bösch, Sion (Switzerland).

She is a doctoral candidate in the PhD program in Social and Organizational Psychology at the University of Barcelona (UB) and holds a Diploma in Advanced Studies (Dea). She has a Master’s Degree in Conflict Management and Resolution: Mediation from UB-Les Heures. She has studied Mediation at Harvard Business School and Fundación libra/Universidad Católica de Buenos Aires.