a short introduction
I am mostly interested in what happens in the brain when people become angry and aggressive, and whether we can use neurobiological data to better manage antisocial behavior. To that end, in my research I test whether different kinds of aggressive behavior are associated with biological measures such as brain activity and connectivity or hormonal concentrations. Throughout my career I have been lucky enough to collaborate with some of the brightest minds in aggression research, namely, Ulrike M. Krämer, David Gallardo-Pujol, and Inti Brazil among others, and I intend to keep working with them in the future.
I did my Bachelor’s and Master’s in Psychology in Barcelona and I then went on to pursue a PhD in Lübeck (Germany) on the neurobiology of reactive aggression. Afterwards, I was awarded an international stipend from the German Science Foundation to work at the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour in Nijmegen (The Netherlands) studying how people develop hostile expectations in ambiguous or uncertain situations. Finally, I started as Lecturer at the University of Barcelona, where I am expanding the focus of my research while teaching at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.