Patricia Fernández Martín has a PhD in Spanish from the Complutense University of Madrid, a degree in Hispanic Philology from the same university and in Linguistics from the Autonomous University of Madrid. She also has a degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology and a Graduate in Philosophy from the National University of Distance Education. She also has a Master's Degree in Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language from the Antonio de Nebrija University, and another in Spanish Language Research from the aforementioned Complutense University of Madrid. In June 2020, she obtained the Expert Degree in University Teaching from the Autonomous University of Madrid, after defending the final project for teaching change entitled Teaching Spanish language through case studies: an example for the Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Two examples of which can be seen on the website of UAM teaching experiences: one designed for face-to-face classes and the other put into practice in virtual classes.

All this corresponds to the two lines of work that she has maintained since 2007. On the one hand, she investigates issues related to the historical grammar of Spanish linked to the interests of various editions of the PROGRAMES project. In this aspect of his research, he is concerned with using, from a diachronic perspective, the cognitivist theory of the prototype in the definition of various metalinguistic concepts, such as verbal periphrasis, the participle or verbal locution, while, recently, finds applying certain currents of gender studies to research in the history of Spanish. On the other hand, her teaching experience as a teacher of Spanish for adult foreigners and of Spanish for young natives constantly raises many concerns that she is capturing in works essentially focused on teaching phonetics, sociolinguistics and grammar of the text.