About me
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I’m a postdoctoral researcher at the SPECS lab from the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC). My work aims at identifying the principles of motor recovery after brain injury and developing technological solutions for neurorehabilitation.
Education
Research Projects
- SANaR: Smart Autonomous Neuro-Rehabilitation. Ministerio De Economía Y Competitividad (MINECO). TIN2013-44200-R Principal Investigator: Paul Verschure (Universidad Pompeu Fabra)
- eSMCs - extending sensorimotor contingencies to cognition. European Commission. FP7-ICT-2009-6-270212. Code acc. to the funding institution: 270212 Principal Investigator: Paul Verschure (Universidad Pompeu Fabra)
- RGS - Rehabilitation Gaming System. AAL Ambient Assisted Living. PI08/90940 - AAL 208-1-119 Principal Investigator: Paul Verschure (Universidad Pompeu Fabra)
- Interventions on emotional responses to pain stimuli in patients with chronic neuropathic pain. Fundació La Marató. Principal Investigator: Paul Verschure (Universidad Pompeu Fabra)
Teaching experience
- Associate professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, 2018. Taught course on Research Methods and Statistics (Màster Sistemes Cognitius i Mèdia Interactius - CSIM) to master students in class sizes averaging 20 students.
- Associate professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, 2018. Taught course on Real Time Interaction (Màster Sistemes Cognitius i Mèdia Interactius - CSIM) to master students in class sizes averaging 20 students.
- Lecturer at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, 2017. Taught course on Translational Neuroscience: Interactive Technologies applied to Health (Màster Sistemes Cognitius i Mèdia Interactius - CSIM) to master students in class sizes averaging 15 students.
- Associate professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, 2017. Taught course on Research Methods and Statistics (Màster Sistemes Cognitius i Mèdia Interactius - CSIM) to master students in class sizes averaging 20 students.
- Master Thesis supervisor MSc Cognitive Systems and Interactive Media (Universitat Pompeu Fabra):
- Student’s name: Antek Metzler. Date: 01/09/2017. Project title: The Impact of Alpha Band Entrainment on the Recall of Unattended Stimuli.
- Student’s name: Alica Lathe. Date: 01/09/2015. Project title: Quantified Feedback To Promote Behavioral Changes In Stroke Patients.
- Student’s name: Sebastian Marwecki. Date: 01/09/2015. Project title: The effect of goal-oriented feedback on motor behavior.
- Student’s name: Adriana Alvarado. Date: 01/09/2014. Project title: Virtual Reality – based tool for the diagnosis and evaluation of “Learned Non-use” in stroke patients.
- Student’s name: Klaudia Grechuta. Date: 01/09/2013. Project title: Intensive language-action therapy in VR for a rehabilitation gaming system. Honours: This study received a nomination for Best Paper Award at the ICDVRAT 2014 conference.
- Student’s name: Martina Maier. Date: 01/09/2013. Project title: Social integration of stroke patients through the multiplayer rehabilitation gaming system. Honours: The study won the best paper award at “Game Days 2014”, 4th Int Conf on Serious Games, Darmstadt, Germany.
- Teaching assistant: Interactive systems course (MSc Cognitive Systems and Interactive Media), 2013-2015.
Honors
- Ph.D. in Information and Communication Technologies for Neurorehabilitation cum laude.
- Third award Acredita Portugal 2013 for the project MyVoicer: an assistive technology for the blind.
- First award UPF Emprén 2012 (Consell Social) for the project MyVoicer: an assistive technology for the blind.
- First Innovaation & Cooperation award for the project Rehabilitation Gaming System (Campus Party Milenio 2011).
Patents
- Title: Electronic portable device for the conversion of text to speech (ES1082734 U 11/2013).
