Curriculum Vitae
Cristina Marquez
Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Cristina Marquez
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- BD15-4B65-EBC0
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-1948-2727
- Google Scholar ID
- https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=RHQWiPsAAAAJ&hl=en
Email addresses
- cmarquez@cnc.uc.pt (Professional)
Languages
| Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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| Spanish; Castilian (Mother tongue) | |||||
| Catalan (Mother tongue) | |||||
| English | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) |
| French | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Advanced (C1) | Proficiency (C2) | Advanced (C1) |
| Portuguese | Upper intermediate (B2) | Advanced (C1) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Advanced (C1) | Upper intermediate (B2) |
Education
| Degree | Classification | |
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2017
Concluded
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EMBO Laboratory Management: The art of leadership - fewer conflicts, more results. (Diploma de especialização)
Instituto de Neurociencias de Alicante, Spain
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2007
Concluded
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Cours Romand de Formation à l'Expérimentation Animale. (Diploma de especialização)
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Lausanne. , Switzerland
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2006
Concluded
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Neuroscience (Doctor of Philosophy)
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
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With Honors |
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2001
Concluded
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Neuroscience (Master)
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
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2001
Concluded
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FELASA Curso de Formación para personal investigador usuario de animales para experimentación y otras finalidades científicas.
(Diploma de especialização)
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
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1999
Concluded
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Psychology (Bachelor)
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
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Affiliation
Science
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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| 2022 - Current | Principal Investigator (Research) | Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal |
| 2016 - 2022 | Principal Investigator (Research) | Instituto de Neurociencias de Alicante, Spain |
| 2011 - 2016 | Postdoc (Research) | Programa Champalimaud de Neurociências, Portugal |
| 2009 - 2011 | Postdoc (Research) | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain |
| 2006 - 2009 | Postdoc (Research) | École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Institut des neurosciences, Switzerland |
Teaching in Higher Education
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
|---|---|---|
| 2004 - 2007 | Assistant Professor (University Teacher) | Universidad Abierta de Cataluña, Spain |
Projects
Grant
| Designation | Funders | |
|---|---|---|
| 2021/01/01 - 2026/12/31 | DYNAMIC BRAIN FUNCTION: Towards the Understanding and Treatment of Brain Disorders
ERA Chair holder
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal
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European Commission
Ongoing
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| 2021 - 2024 | NeurotechEU Research and Innovation (NeurotechRI)
Researcher
Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche, Spain
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European Commission
Ongoing
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| 2020 - 2023 | The European University of Brain and Technology-NeurotechEU
EAC-A02-2019. EPP-EUR-UNIV-2020, 101004080
Researcher
Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche, Spain
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European Commission
Concluded
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| 2019 - 2022 | Circuits of social observation and decision-making in rats
RTI2018-097843-B-100
Principal investigator
Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche, Spain
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Agencia Estatal de Investigación
Concluded
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| 2018 - 2021 | Brain-wide functional connectivity of oxytocin neurons
Principal investigator
Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche, Spain
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Fundação Bial
Concluded
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| 2016 - 2021 | Ramon y Cajal fellow
Principal investigator
Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche, Spain
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Ministerio de Asuntos Económicos y Transformación Digital
Concluded
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| 2018/01 - 2020/01 | Dissecting Neural Circuits For Social Reward Integration In Rats
2017-116
Principal investigator
Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche, Spain
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National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression
Concluded
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| 2016 - 2018 | Stress and (pro-)social behaviour: neural circuits on the resilience and vulnerability to psychopathology
SAF2015-70125-R
Principal investigator
Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche, Spain
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España Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación
Concluded
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| 2013 - 2016 | Circuits of con-specific observation
Post-doc
Programa Champalimaud de Neurociências, Portugal
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European Research Council
Concluded
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| 2006/07 - 2007/06 | Brain energy metabolism, genes and vulnerability to psychopathology
Post-doc Fellow
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Institut des neurosciences, Switzerland
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Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung
Concluded
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Outputs
Publications
| Book |
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| Book chapter |
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| Journal article |
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| Preprint |
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Activities
Oral presentation
| Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Circuits of social decision making in rodents | Seminar series
INMED, Marseille, France
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| 2024 | Social behaviors in health and disease | XIII In4Med - Medical and Scientific Congress of Coimbra, Portugal
(Coimbra, Portugal)
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| 2024 | Social decision-making in rodents | Seminar Series
Institute of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology (IPMC), from CNRS in Nice,France. (Nice, France)
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| 2024 | Prosocial decision making in rodents | International Behavioral Neuroscience Society meeting
International Behavioral Neuroscience Society (Panama city, Panama)
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| 2023 | Circuits of social decision making in rodents | Seminar series
Université de Lausanne, UNIL. Lausanne, Switzerland (Switzerland)
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| 2023 | Circuits of social decision making in rodents |
Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany (Bochum, Germany)
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| 2023 | Circuits of social decision making in rodents |
The European Social Club iniciative. First in person meeting. Erice, Sicily. Italy (Sicily, Italy)
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| 2023 | Dominance status modulates prosocial decision making in rats | European Brain and Behavior meeting. Amsterdam, The Netherlands
European Brain and Behavior Society (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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| 2023 | Social decision-making in foraging contexts | 16th International Congress of the Polish Neuroscience Society
Polish Neuroscience Society (Torun, Poland)
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| 2023 | Studying social decision making in rodents | Proaction Lab seminars
Coimbra University, Psychology department. Portugal (Coimbra, Portugal)
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| 2022 | Social decision making in rodents | Seminar series
LMU, Munich. Germany (Munich, Germany)
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| 2022 | Circuits of social decision making in rodents | Institut de Neurociencias UAB annual retreat, Sant Feliu de Guixols, Spain
(Sant Feliu de Guixols, Spain)
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| 2022 | Social Cognition… Beyond Social Interactions | FENS Forum 2022
(Paris, France)
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| 2022 | Circuits of social decision making in rodents | Centre for Innovative Biomedicine and Biotechnology, CIBB meeting, Portugal.
(Coimbra, Portugal)
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| 2022 | Circuits of social decision making in rodents | Seminar series
Sussex University, UK
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| 2022 | Circuits of social decision making in rodents | Neuroscience hot-topic seminars at PRBB, Barcelona. Spain
PRBB (Barcelona, Spain)
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| 2021 | Prosocial behavior in rodents | X years of Instituto do Cerebro.
Brain Institute Symposium (Natal, Brazil)
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| 2021 | Modeling behavior during decision making | Modeling behavior during decision making
SENC (Lleida, Spain)
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| 2021 | Social decision-making in rodents | German Neuroscience Society Meeting. Gottingen, Germany.
(Gottingen, Germany)
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| 2019 | Social decision-making in rodents | Barcelona Computational, Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience meeting. Spain.
BARCCSYNC (Barcelona, Spain)
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| 2019 | Satellite Open Neuroscience: Do it yourself! | SENC (Sociedad Española de Neurociencia)-Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
(Santiago de Compostela, Spain)
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| 2018 | Special Interest Event @FENS Forum | FENS Forum 2018
(Berlin, Germany)
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| 2018 | Social decision making in rodents | Seminar Series
Institut de Neurociències Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Spain (Bellaterra, Spain)
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| 2018 | The brain and social behavior | XV Neuroscience National School. Carmona (Sevilla). Spain
(Carmona, Spain)
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| 2018 | Investigating social behavior in rodents | Seminar Series
Universidad de Valencia. Valencia, Spain (Valencia, Spain)
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| 2018 | Prosociality in rodents | Seminar series
Universitat Illes Balears. Mallorca, Spain (Palma de Mallorca, Spain)
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| 2017 | Circuits of social behavior | Seminar series
Centre of Advanced European Studies and Research CAESAR. Bonn, Germany. (Bonn, Germany)
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| 2016 | Rats cooperate in the absence of direct benefit: Development of a new behavioural paradigm. | EMCCS-EBBS joint satellite meeting @FENS
European Brain and Behavior Society (Copenhaguen, Denmark)
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| 2016 | Functional interrogations of the Brain. | FENS-Kavli Network of Excellence and Severo Ochoa Mini-Symposium. Alicante. Spain
FENS-Kavli Network of Excellence (Alicante, Spain)
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| 2016 | Social behavior in rodents | Dutch Neuroscience Meetting.
Dutch Neuroscience Society. (Lunterent, Netherlands)
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| 2014 | Prosocial Choice in rats: behavioural mechanisms | 11ª Christmas Meeting del Instituto de Neurociencias de Alicante. Alicante, Spain
Instituto de Neurociencias de Alicante. Alicante, Spain (Alicante, Spain)
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| 2012 | Rats cooperate in the absence of direct benefit: Development of a new behavioural paradigm. | EBBS Satellite: Stress, the story of our social lives. Satelline of FENS Forum
European Brain and Behavior Society (Barcelona, Spain)
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| 2012 | Peripubertal stress at the basis of aggressive behavior in rodents | I FALAN Meeting (Federación de Asociaciones Latinoamericanas y del Caribe de Neurociencias). Cancún, Mexico
FALAN (Cancun, Mexico)
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| 2009 | Neural correlates of abnormal aggression following peripubertal stress in rats: role of serotonin, vasopressin and oxytocin. | 8th World Congress on Neurohypophysial Hormone
8th World Congress on Neurohypophysial Hormone (Kitakyushu, Japan)
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Supervision
| Thesis Title Role |
Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization |
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| 2023/12 - Current | Anterior cingulate cortex in the modulation of prosociality in rats
Supervisor of Bárbara Canijo
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Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal
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| 2019 - 2024 | Identification of the neural mechanism underlying prosocial behaviors in rats
Supervisor of Joan Esteve-Agraz
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Instituto de Neurociencias de Alicante, Spain
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal |
| 2017 - 2023 | Multimodal cues displayed by submissive rats promote prosocial choices by dominants.
Supervisor of Michael Gachomba
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Instituto de Neurociencias de Alicante, Spain
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| 2017 - 2022 | Novel competition test for food rewards reveals stable dominance status in adult male rats
Supervisor of Diana Costa
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Instituto de Neurociencias de Alicante, Spain
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| 2019 - 2020 | Prosocial choice and social hierarchy in female rats
Supervisor of Helena Bortolozzo Gleich
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Instituto de Neurociencias de Alicante, Spain
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| 2019 - 2020 | DeepLabCut Tracking Software Implementation for fine-grained tracking of social interactions during Vicarious Reward in rats.
Supervisor of Adele Duseviciute
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Instituto de Neurociencias de Alicante, Spain
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| 2017 - 2018 | Development of a tracking system for the study of social interactions with sub-second resolution.
Supervisor of Joan Esteve-Agraz
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Instituto de Neurociencias de Alicante, Spain
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| 2013 - 2014 | Prosocial choice in rats depends on rewards received and food-seeking behavior displayed by recipients.
Co-supervisor of Diana Costa
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Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
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| 2007 - 2007 | Validation of a rat behavior software analysis: PanlabStartfreeze for Acoustic Fear Conditioning test in rats
Co-supervisor of Alexandre Sofia
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Event organisation
| Event name Type of event (Role) |
Institution / Organization | |
|---|---|---|
| 2025/06/09 - 2025/06/12 | Neurobiology of social behaviors.
2nd in person meeting on the European network "European Social Club" that joins European laboratories interested in the study
of the neurobiological mechanisms of social behavior in rodents and other species (2025/06/09 - 2025/06/12)
Congress (Co-organisor)
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European Social Club network, Portugal |
| 2025/06/05 - 2025/06/07 | Neuroscience needs makers: Introduction to Bonsai (2025/06/05 - 2025/06/07)
Workshop (President of the Organising Committee)
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European Social Club network, Portugal |
| 2021 - 2021 | Neural basis of rodent social behaviors symposium. (2021 - 2021)
Congress (Co-organisor)
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Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche, Spain |
| 2019 - 2021 | 3D printing for scientific prototyping. Scientific Hardware and Electronics Service. (2019 - 2021)
Workshop (President of the Organising Committee)
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Instituto de Neurociencias de Alicante, Spain |
| 2018 - 2021 | How to solder properly my electronic devices? Scientific Hardware and Electronics Service (2018 - 2021)
Workshop (President of the Organising Committee)
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Instituto de Neurociencias de Alicante, Spain |
| 2018 - 2021 | Laser cutter for scientific prototyping. Scientific Hardware and Electronics Service. (2018 - 2021)
Workshop (President of the Organising Committee)
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Instituto de Neurociencias de Alicante, Spain |
| 2019 - 2019 | Improving openness in animal research in Spain (2019 - 2019)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
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Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche, Spain Society for Neuroscience, United States |
| 2019 - 2019 | Modulation of behavior by social information across species (2019 - 2019)
Symposium (Co-organisor)
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Symposium at the European Brain and behavior society meeting , Czech Republic |
| 2018 - 2018 | International day of women and girl in science. Organizer. Talks and experiments with kindergarden, primary and secondary
school students. European school of Alicante (2018 - 2018)
Festival (Co-organisor)
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Instituto de Neurociencias de Alicante, Spain |
| 2017 - 2017 | IN Bonsai Course 2017: A visual language for reactive programming (2017 - 2017)
Workshop (President of the Organising Committee)
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Instituto de Neurociencias de Alicante, Spain |
| 2016 - 2016 | Severo Ochoa Symposium: Circuits and Behavior. (2016 - 2016)
Symposium (Co-organisor)
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Instituto de Neurociencias de Alicante, Spain |
| 2013 - 2013 | SeminAr: The Chemistry between us. Larry Young (2013 - 2013)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
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Programa Champalimaud de Neurociências, Portugal |
Event participation
| Activity description Type of event |
Event name Institution / Organization |
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|---|---|---|
| 2025/02/20 - 2025/02/20 | Public round table to debate the ethic aspects of the use of neurotechnologies.
Round table
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Sessão Pública de Apresentação do Relatório sobre o Estado da Aplicação das Novas Tecnologias
Conselho Nacional de Ética para as Ciências da Vida, Portugal
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| 2023 - 2023 | European Researchers Night. Coimbra, Portugal.
Other
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Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal
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| 2023 - 2023 | International day of women and girls in Science. Spanish Institute in Lisbon
Other
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Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal
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| 2023 - 2023 | International day of women and girls in Science. University of Coimbra, public lecture.
Seminar
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Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal
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| 2021 - 2021 | Neuromascletà. Science outreach at the Fallas in Valencia
Seminar
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Universitat de València, Spain
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| 2019 - 2019 | Festival Pint of Science. Sala Clan Cabaret, Alicante. Spain
Seminar
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Instituto de Neurociencias de Alicante, Spain
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| 2019 - 2019 | ¿Mejor solo que mal acompañado? Talk for high school students. Viladecans, Barcelona. Spain
Seminar
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Instituto de Neurociencias de Alicante, Spain
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Jury of academic degree
| Topic Role |
Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization |
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|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Living Experiences, Updating Memories: on the Role of Parvalbumin Interneurons in the Dentate Gyrus
(Thesis) Main arguer
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Elena Perez (PhD)
Instituto de Neurociencias de Alicante, Spain
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| 2024 | Neural circuits for social recognition in mice: a neuroanatomical, behavioral and electrophysiological study.
(Thesis) Main arguer
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Manuel Esteban Vila Martin (PhD)
Universitat de València, Spain
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| 2023 | Central amygdala- ventral tegmental area: cortical circuits mediate initiation and maintenance of social interaction.
(Thesis) Main arguer
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Karolina Rojek-Sito (PhD)
Instytut Biologii Doswiadczalnej im Marcelego Nenckiego Polskiej Akademii Nauk, Poland
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| 2023 | DISSECTING THE ROLE OF PARVALBUMIN POSITIVE INHIBITORY NEURONS IN THE CELLULAR AND BEHAVIORAL PHENOTYPES ASSOCIATED WITH GPRASP2
DELETION
(Thesis) Arguer
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Mariana Barradas Serrano Laranjo (PhD)
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal
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| 2023 | Social learning about rewards - how information from others helps to adapt to changing environment.
(Thesis) Main arguer
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Maciej Winiarski (PhD)
Instytut Biologii Doswiadczalnej im Marcelego Nenckiego Polskiej Akademii Nauk, Poland
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| 2023 | PACAP-PAC1R and Hormonal Modulation of Stress and Fear Extinction Memories in Females
President of the jury
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Eric Raúl Velasco García (PhD)
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
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| 2020 | Fenotipado conductual y molecular de los circuitos implicados en el comportamiento de dominancia social.
(Thesis) Main arguer
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Anna Pallé (PhD)
Instituto de Neurobiología Ramón y Cajal, Spain
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| 2020 | The Medial Amygdala as a key neural centre in maternal aggression.
(Thesis) Arguer
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Maria Abellan Alvaro (PhD)
Universitat de València, Spain
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| 2017 | Varieties of empathy in bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus).
(Thesis) Main arguer
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Ana Pérez Manrique (PhD)
Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain
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| 2016 | Neural coding and integration of temporal patterns in the barrel cortex.
(Thesis) Arguer
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Anna Pitas (PhD)
Instituto de Neurociencias de Alicante, Spain
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Ad Hoc journal article review
| Journal title (ISSN) | Publisher | |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 - Current | Nature Neuroscience | |
| 2021 - Current | Cell | |
| 2020 - Current | Nature | |
| 2020 - Current | Nature Communications | |
| 2017 - Current | PNAS | |
| 2017 - Current | eLife | |
| 2016 - Current | Current Biology | |
| 2016 - Current | JOVE | |
| 2016 - Current | Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience | |
| 2016 - Current | Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Biological letters | |
| 2016 - Current | Scientific Reports | |
| 2016 - Current | Animal Behavior | |
| 2016 - Current | Neuroscience | |
| 2016 - Current | Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience | |
| 2016 - Current | Molecular Psychiatry |
Association member
| Society Organization name | Role | |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 - Current | Sociedade Portuguesa de Neurociências (SPN) | |
| 2016 - 2022 | Sociedad Española de Neurociencias (SENC) |
Committee member
| Activity description Role |
Institution / Organization | |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 - 2027 | Elected member of the executive committee of the Behavioral Brain Research Association (EBBS)
Other
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Course / Discipline taught
| Academic session | Degree Subject (Type) | Institution / Organization | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 - 2022 | IGC PhD programme. Invited speaker | (Curso de doutoramento (conclusão de unidades curriculares)) | Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal |
| 2017 - 2022 | Neurobiology of complex behaviors | Phd in Neuroscience: from bench to bed side (Curso de doutoramento (conclusão de unidades curriculares)) | Instituto de Neurociencias de Alicante, Spain |
| 2011 - 2011 | PhD programme. Champalimaud Neuroscience Programme (course: Methods in Behavioral Neuroscience) | (Doutoramento) | Centro Champalimaud, Portugal |
| 2010 - 2010 | Master in Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology - Invited speaker. | (Mestrado) | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain |
| 2009 - 2010 | Psychoendocrinology | Psychology (Licenciatura) | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain |
| 2008 - 2009 | PhD programme Life Science School (course: Methods in Behavioral Neuroscience). | (Doutoramento) | École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland |
| 2007 - 2008 | PENS training centre: Imaging Brain Function, EPFL. Switzerland | (Postgraduate Certificate) | École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Institut des neurosciences, Switzerland |
| 2004 - 2007 | Psychopharmacology | Psychology (Bachelor) | Universidad Abierta de Cataluña, Spain |
| 2003 - 2005 | Psychology of Individual differences | Psychology (Bachelor) | Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Spain |
Evaluation committee
| Activity description Role |
Institution / Organization | Funding entity | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 - 2024 | Evaluation pannel for ATIP Avenir Program (France)
Member
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Agence nationale de la recherche, France | Agence nationale de la recherche |
| 2019 - 2019 | Grant Reviewer for Spanish Agency of Evaluation I+D+I
Member
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España Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, Spain | España Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación |
Interview (newspaper / magazine)
| Activity description | Newspaper / Forum | |
|---|---|---|
| 2025/02/20 | Collaboration with the New Scientist, in the presentation of two Science papers related to prosocial behavior in rodents. | New Scientist |
| 2025/02/20 | Collaboration with El Pais, the biggest Spanish newspaper, as scientific expert regarding 2 Science papers regarding prosocial behavior in rodents | El Pais |
| 2024 | Elon Musk quer ligar o cérebro humano a máquinas. O que é a Neuralink e como funciona? (Interview about neurotechnologies and the recent advances of Neuralink) | Publico |
| 2023 | O problema não é estar sozinho, é sentir-se sozinho. O que diz a ciência sobre a solidão? (Neural basis of loneliness) | Público |
| 2020 | La neurociencia explica por qué tenemos «hambre de piel» y necesitamos abrazos Interview regarding the importance of social interactions during COVID times | el País |
| 2019 | ¿Es innata nuestra capacidad para diferencias a personas de otro sexo? | el País |
| 2017 | Collaboration with local press about Intelligence | Diario Información (Alicante) |
| 2017 | Los neurocientíficos presentan el primer mapa cerebral de la empatía | la Vanguardia |
| 2013 | Coverage about our Translational Psychiatry paper | The Scientist |
| 2013 | Coverage about our Translational Psychiatry paper | Time |
| 2011 | Article about stress. | Visão |
| 2006 | Coverage about our Brain Research paper | El Pais |
Interview (tv / radio show)
| Program | Topic | |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 - Current | Science outreach TV show: Felicitat 3.0: Viatjar | the Neuroscience behind travelling and the surprise |
| 2022 - 2022 | La ciencia tras un puñetazo ¿Cómo es el cerebro violento? (Neurobiology of Violence) | Collaboration with cadena SER (national radio) about the neurobiology of violence, after the event of Will Smith at the Oscars ceremony |
| 2022 - 2022 | Inquietamente. RNE. Prosocialidad | Radio interview in the main Spanish channel about our Current biology paper |
| 2021 - 2021 | Inquietamente RNE. El estrés infantil equivale a alteración de memoria y ansied | Radio interview in the main Spanish channel about our Neurobiology of stress paper |
| 2020 - 2020 | El cerebro en el contacto social | The social brain in the times of COVID |
| 2015 - 2015 | SIC Noticias | TV- Interview in the main national channel. National News (In English and Portuguese) about our Current Biology paper |
Other jury / evaluation
| Activity description | Institution / Organization | |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 - 2024 | External grant reviewer for the ERC grants (EU) Starting and Consolidator ERC | European Research Council, Belgium |
| 2019 - 2022 | External grant reviewer for the Wellcome Trust (UK) | Wellcome Foundation Ltd, United Kingdom |
| 2018 - 2021 | Grant Reviewer for Spanish Agency of Evaluation I+D+I | Agencia Estatal de Investigación, Spain |
| 2019 - 2019 | External grant reviewer for the Agence National de Recherche (France) | Agence nationale de la recherche, France |
Distinctions
Award
| 2022 | ERAChair holder
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal
European Commission, Belgium |
| 2017 | NARSAD Young Investigator
National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression, United States
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| 2015 | Ramón y Cajal Fellow
España Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, Spain
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| 2014 | Best talk award: 11ª Christmas Meeting del Instituto de Neurociencias. Alicante, Spain
Instituto de Neurociencias de Alicante, Spain
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| 2014 | Best poster award "The Brain Conference: Controlling neurons, circuits and behaviour. " Rungstedgaard, Copenhaguen, Denmark
Federation of European Neuroscience Societies, Belgium
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| 2010 | Travel grant. XI Spanish Neuroscience school. Carmona. Spain
Sociedad Española de Neurociencia, Spain
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| 2009 | Postdoctoral fellowship Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB).
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
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| 2008 | Travel award. 8th World Congress on Neurohypophysial Hormones. |
| 2007 | Young investigator Award. Roche Research Foundation. |
| 2007 | EPFL-NESTLE Postdoctoral contract.
Nestlé Foundation, Switzerland
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| 2006 | Young investigator Award. Swiss National Foundation (SSN-IBRO).
Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung, Switzerland
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| 2004 | Travel award 5th World Congress on Stress. UK |
| 2004 | Fellowship Spanish Network of addictive behaviors
España Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, Spain
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| 2003 | Travel award FENS-IBRO summer school. Elba Island, Italy
International Brain Research Organization, France
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| 2003 | Travel award 6th IBRO World Congress of Neuroscience. Prague, Czech Republic
International Brain Research Organization, France
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| 2000 | UAB Fellowship for master and PhD studies.
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
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| 1999 | Fellowship for scientific internship. Spanish Ministry of Education and Culture.
Gobierno de Espana Ministerio de Educación Cultura y Deporte, Spain
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| 1996 | ERASMUS fellowship. Université de Liège (Belgium)
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
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