More about me

Early on I've been interested in the neurophysiological bases of human behaviour, and its links to cognitive control. After collaborating with several groups of research during my bachelor’s degree in Psychology, I obtained a master’s degree in health psychology at the University of Granada. Then, I began my PhD in Psychology (2015-2019), funded by the Spanish Minister of Economy and Competitiveness (FPI scholarship).

During the PhD, I established my own line of research, far from restricting to traditional methods, by developing a novel approach to investigate neural dynamics and cognitive processes during physical exercise. I followed an interdisciplinary approach, by techniques at physical, mathematical, and physiological level that I gathered working with multidisciplinary research groups during two visiting research periods in Boston University (USA) and University of Cambridge (UK). I was not afraid swim against the stream, and I demonstrated that we could obtain feasible neural and cognitive information in extreme conditions such as physical exertion. The data-driven approach used led to 6 impactful publications associated to my PhD project (Neuroimage2018, JSMS2018, PlosOne2019; Psychophysiology2019; Cortex2021; CommsBio2022; NatHumBeh2023).

My passion for innovation and creative thinking lead me, in 2012, to co-found Brain House Institute (2012) and Brain4 Group (2015), two pioneering companies that merged science and business to face the higher challenges of organizations and provide them with scientific-based solutions. This experience let me lead and coordinate a research team in different projects for worldwide companies to investigate attentional and emotional human reactions to audio-visual stimuli, as well as their translation into specific consumer decision-making behaviors.

My current research interests cover the area of Health Neuroscience, focusing on the relation between health-oriented behaviors and the modulation of neural dynamics underlying aspects of higher-order cognitive function. Within this general framework, I’m interested in cognitive processes that take place in the absence of awareness, which demand few cognitive resources or are difficult to control, once initiated. As a young researcher, my current aim is to further develop my skills in cutting-edge computational and statistical methods to assess the role of awareness or other features of automaticity. I aim to work in a stimulating and supportive research environment, nurturing from the expertise and strategic vision of recognized researchers in Cognitive Neuroscience.