Professor Dr. Lorena Jiménez Sánchez

Biography

Lorena Jiménez Sánchez is a Lecturer in the School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences at the University of Edinburgh. She completed her BSc in Health Biology and MSc in Neuroscience in Spain, before moving to the UK where she earned her PhD in Translational Neuroscience at the University of Edinburgh in 2023. During her academic career, she has focused on social neuroscience, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic, and her research emphasizes the positive connections between people and the increase in resilience. Her doctoral thesis integrated behavioral and cognitive neuroimaging methods to investigate the development of attachment relationships in preterm infants. Currently, she is engaged in postdoctoral research, working with Dr. Hilary Richardson at Edinburgh, to explore how social factors influence the maturation of face-selective brain regions during childhood. Her ongoing research interests include attachment, infancy, socioemotional development, and functionally specialized brain regions.

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