Bio

Since 2025, she has held a full-time research position at the Department of Computer Science, Instituto de Investigaciones en Matemáticas Aplicadas y en Sistemas (IIMAS), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM).

She is the Director of the Embodied Cognition Lab (Laboratorio de Cognición Corporizada, LabCoCo), an initiative originally based at the School of Psychology, UNAM, where she worked as a full-time professor in Cognitive and Behavioral Sciences from 2020 to 2025.

The Lab provides a context for integrating multidisciplinary approaches to study how the body and situated action cycles, grounded in the physical properties of the environment, shape cognitive processes.

She also leads the collaborative project Embodied Cognitive Sciences (4EA), a web-based initiative aimed at sharing a passion for analyzing, discussing, and understanding perception and cognition from an embodied, affective, grounded, and situated perspective.

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Since 2012, she has been an active member of the Cognitive Robotics Laboratory, CInC, UAEM, where she has participated in numerous projects. She has supervised several theses at postgraduate level in the field of Cognitive Science. 

In 2019-February 2020, she got a PostDoc Position in the Institut für Informatik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin with Prof. Dr. Verena V. Hafner and Prof. Dr. Bruno Lara. The position was funded with a grant for junior researchers from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.