Marishirl Tropicales is an associate professor at the UST College of Education. As a faculty member of the college, she teaches professional education courses and has been assigned to various tasks: as Mathematics coordinator, Education Department coordinator, AdHoc committee member, accreditation committee member, supervising teacher, and member of the Dean’s Council.  She also served as the principal of its laboratory high school, the Education High School from 2005 to 2010. She had also been a faculty researcher of the UST Center for Educational Research and Development. 

In 2011, she was appointed as the principal of the UST Junior High School, an administrative post she holds until the present. She holds a Ph.D. in Educational Management, a master’s degree in Development Education and a Bachelor of Science degree major in Mathematics from the Royal and Pontifical University of Santo Tomas.