I was a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Texas at Austin (2015-2017) and at Vanderbilt University (2017-2019) working with Dr. James Booth. My postdoctoral work examined the neurocognitive mechanisms driving longitudinal changes over time in arithmetic skills in children. Using longitudinal fMRI data, I examined whether the reliance on verbal vs. quantity brain mechanisms, early on, predicted improvement in different arithmetic operations two years later. I analyzed longitudinal fMRI data to study the directionality of the effects between the approximate number system and arithmetic skills, contributing to an important debate in the literature. I also explored the changes in the brain that correlated with changes in multiplication fluency by comparing the changes in functional brain connectivity between time points for improvers and non-improvers. Besides the role of domain-general and domain-specific cognitive mechanisms, I was involved in a study looking at the brain mechanisms explaining the interaction between math skill and attitudes towards math and I am currently working on identifying the mechanisms by which positive attitudes towards math can explain longitudinal improvements in math skill over time. Last but not least, I contributed to the sharing of  Dr. Booth’s fMRI longitudinal dataset in OpenNeuro! 

I received my PhD from the University of Barcelona, Spain (2010-2014; Excellent Cum Laude with International mention), working with Dr. Nuñez-Peña and Dr. Colomé. My predoctoral research explored the brain correlates of math anxiety in adults using event-related potentials (ERPs).
I focused on the behavioral and electrophysiological differences between math-anxious individuals when solving numeric and attentional tasks, as well as group differences in error processing.