BIOGRAPHY

I completed my Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology in 2005 at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), studying attention and working memory interactions. During my Postdoc training, I worked with Dr. Carlo Umiltà at Università degli Studi di Padova (2008/2009), studying attention in Traumatic Brain Injury Patients (UAM & Erasmus Grants). In 2011, I worked with Dr. Molly Potter at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology-MIT (José Castillejo Scholarship, Spanish Government), studying Attention in RSVP tasks, and with Dr. Jeremy Wolfe in 2015 (Fulbright Scholarship) at the BWH-Harvard Medical School, studying working memory effects in visual search. From December 2015 to January 2018, I was Vice-Dean of Research and Doctoral Studies at the School of Psychology-UAM. Also, I was again awarded a Fulbright Scholarship as Senior Researcher (Salvador de Madariaga) from February to July 2018 in the Wolfe Lab-BWH-Harvard Medical to continue my studies in visual search. I was also awarded a 3-year Marie Curie Fellowship by the European Commission, both at the University of Cambridge and at the BWH-Harvard Medical School in the Wolfe lab, which moved for the last year (2020-2021) to the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) because of the Covid-pandemic. In the MSCA project, we studied attention and working memory in children. My main research interest nowadays is understanding how attentional mechanisms operate in a developmental brain, and how they change in typical and atypical development to design new treatments to improve them during childhood. I am currently Professor at UAM, teaching Methods in Psychology. 

In my personal life, I have a wonderful family with David and our three kids, two boys 16 and 14 years old, and an 11-year-old daughter.