Department of Psychology
Goldsmiths University of London
New Cross,
SE14 6NW,
London, UK
Education and previous academic positions
03/2018 – 12/2018
Guest scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences. Leipzig (Germany).
09/2015 – 2018
Guest scientist at the Charité – University of Medicine Berlin (Germany).
09/2015 – 09/2017
Director of the MSc in Music, Mind & Brain at Goldsmiths (UK).
05/2010 – 01/2018
Principal investigator at the Neurology Department of the Charité – University of Medicine Berlin (Germany). Research projects HE 6103/1-1 and HE 6103/1-2 funded by the DFG.
03/2014 – 09/2015
Guest scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences. Leipzig (Germany).
07/2009 – 05/2010
Post-doctoral position at the Motor Neuroscience Group of the Charité – University of Medicine Berlin (Germany).
09/2009
Ph.D. in Neuroscience (Dr. rer. nat.) at the Center of Systems Neuroscience, Hanover (Germany). Summa cum laude.
10/2006 – 06/2009
Postgraduate Program Systems Neuroscience. Center of Systems Neuroscience. Hanover (Germany).
10/2006 – 06/2009
Marie Curie Early Stage Research Training (EST-021014) Ph.D. contract at the Center for Systems Neuroscience and Institute of Music Physiology and Musician’s Medicine, University of Music and Drama. Hanover (Germany).
08/2006
Research stay at the Commission for Scientific Visualization, Austrian Academy of Sciences. Vienna (Austria).
07/2004 – 04/2005
Advanced Studies Diploma (MPhil.) at the Department of Fundamental Physics, Faculty of Science, UNED. Madrid (Spain). Summa cum laude.
05/2004 – 10/2004
Research stay at the Nonlinear Dynamics Group of the Institute for Physics and Astronomy, Potsdam University. Potsdam (Berlin).
02/2003 – 07/2004
Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Program Physics of Complex Systems. Department of Fundamental Physics, Faculty of Science, UNED. Madrid (Spain).
09/1996 – 09/2001
MSc. degree (Licenciatura) in Theoretical Physics, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Madrid (Spain).
Special achievements
- Awarded the Susanne Klein-Vogelbach-Preis for the research of human movement, 2014.
- Finalist (10 finalists) of the Marie Curie Award in the Category Promising Research Talent. Nomination by peer (Center for Systems Neuroscience, Hanover). European Commission, Marie Curie Actions, 2012.
- Graduate Award of the International Society of Performance Science, 2009.