Lucía Vaquero
Marie Scklodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellow (UCM, Spain; NYU, US).
Role within SMART: main researcher, design, coordination & management, data acquisition, analysis, communication & dissemination.
PhD in Biomedicine-Neuroscience, her interest and expertise are focused on the combination of multi-methodological approaches in neuroimaging, neurophysiological and neuropsychological methods to study brain plasticity and behavioral effects related to music learning and practice. She is also deeply interested in developing her research in an intersectoral context, learning about potential applications for the conclusions of her experiments that may help in education or therapeutic contexts.
Pablo Ripollés
Assistant Professor of Psychology; Associate Director of MARL-NYU.
Role within SMART: supervision & training (academic co-mentor of LV during the Outgoing Phase of MSCA funded period), coordination & management.
PhD in Biomedicine-Neuroscience, he is the PI of the Ripollés Lab in Language Learning, Reward & Music, associated to Psychology and Music Technology (NYU), also affiliated to CLaME. He has extensive experience in clinical/intervention trials using music approaches and in the use of neuroimaging methods for studying cognitive/emotional processes.
Catherine Hartley
Associate Professor of Psychology and Neural Science; Associate Director of CLaME.
Role within SMART: supervision & training (academic co-mentor of LV during the Outgoing Phase of MSCA funded period), coordination & management.
PhD in Psychology, she is the PI of the Hartley Lab focused on characterizing learning and decision-making across development, affiliated to Psychology, and CLaME. She possesses extensive methodological and theoretical expertise in the neuroscientific study of cognitive and affective processing in adolescent populations.
Karleigh Groves
Lab Manager in Ripollés Lab and MARL.
Role within SMART: support in preparation of the experiment, recruitment & data acquisition.
BA in Psychology, she is Junior Research Scientist and Lab Manager at New York University in the Ripollés Lab and the Music and Auditory Research Lab (MARL). She is interested in the relationship between autobiographical memories associated with music and personal identity, and will help in data acquisition and analysis.
Eva Luna Muñoz Vidal
PhD candidate at NYU-Steinhardt.
Role within SMART: support in recruitment, data acquisition, and data analysis.
MSc of Integrative Biology and Physiology–Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience, she is starting her PhD training at NYU within the Rehabilitation Sciences program. She has worked as a research/university assistant in several laboratories (Pasteur Institute, New York University, and University of Vienna) all of them focused on how music and cognitive processes interact in the brain.
Elisa García Mingo
Role within SMART: supervision (academic mentor of LV during the Returning Phase of MSCA funded period).
Affiliated to the Department of Sociology: Methodology & Theory at the UCM, she become the new SMART PI in January 2024. She is an active member in the Digital Culture & Social Movements Lab (UCM) and an associate member of the Centre for Transforming Sexuality and Gender (University of Brighton). Prof. García-Mingo is an expert in Gender Sociology, Sociology of Violence, Cultural Studies, Feminist Epistemology, and Methodology in Social Research. She has extensive experience studying violence and hate-related behaviors online.
Luis Fernández-Luque
Chief Scientific Officer at Adhera Health, Inc.
Role within SMART: supervision & training (non-academic mentor for LV at SaluMedia Labs during MSCA funded period), application & exploitation of results.
PhD in Computer Science, he is the co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer at Adhera Health, Inc. His core scientific contribution is in the intersection of computer science and behavioral sciences with a common focus on supporting people living with chronic conditions. Further, Global Digital Health is his vocation and research and innovation his passions. He also enjoys advocating and communicating on how digital health can transform our healthcare and ultimately empower people.
Franziska Degé
Research Fellow at the MPIEA.
Role within SMART: supervision & training (academic mentor for LV during her Academic Secondment within MSCA funded period), support in design and analysis.
PhD in Psychology, Research Fellow at the Department of Music of the Max Plank Institute of Empirical Aesthetics, her expertise lies in the study of the development of music abilities, specifically of the associations between motoric development and the development of rhythmical abilities during childhood. Furthermore, she also investigates potential transfer effects of music lessons on cognitive abilities, as well as the associations between music lessons, music aptitude and personality
Previous collaborators:
Haula Nakakembo
MA in Music (Commercial Music and Production) is currently pursuing her graduate studies in Psychology at New York University. As a songwriter and composer, she specializes in the Music and Synchronization within television and promotions. Haula’s research interests are exploring how auditory stimuli can influence emotion and behavior in advertising and entertainment and how emotions / attachment style influence the experience of different genres of music.
Fernando Maestú
Full Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience at the Complutense University of Madrid and director of the Center for Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience (C3N), interested in the study of human memory and forgetting. For more than 20 years he has use magnetoencephalography (MEG) to unravel the electrophysiological underpinnings of these phenomena, both in healthy people and in patients suffering acquired or progressive brain damage.
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