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cognitive neuroscience, multisensory integration, sensory learning, neurorehabilitation, pain, virtual reality, sonification, neuroplasticity, Electroencephalografy, Brain oscillatory activity
Spain

Biography

Since March 2024, Dra. Marta Matamala-Gomez is a Marie-Curie postdoctoral researcher at the University of Barcelona. Her Marie Curie project (SoMoWalk) is directed to investigate movement sonification's impact on the human brain oscillatory activity (with EEG) and how it can be applied to neurorehabilitation to improve walking ability. She started to investigate movement sonification techniques applied to improve body movements and body representation in patients with neurological disorders in 2022 with a Betariu de Pinòs post-doctoral fellow project. She earned her Ph.D. in Biomedicine (research line: cognitive neuroscience) in 2017 at the University of Barcelona under the direction of professors Maria V. Sánchez-Vives and Mel Slater. During this period, she investigated the use of immersive virtual reality in neurorehabilitation and its impact on neuroplasticity in healthy and clinical populations with motor and chronic pain disorders. Her doctoral work was graded with excellent cum laude. The results of two of the main studies of his thesis work led to the development of a new virtual reality rehabilitation software on the way to commercialization by Virtual Body Works S.L. Product: iCORTEX®. On December 5, 2017, the Academic Committee of the Biomedicine program authorized the exhibition of the international doctoral certificate. After her PhD, she moved to Italy (Pavia and Milan) to conduct a 5 years post-doctoral period using virtual reality techniques to improve clinical conditions and combine virtual reality with other non-invasive technologies such as transcranial magnetic stimulation.

Activities

Employment (10)

University of Barcelona: Barcelona, Catalogna, Spain, ES

2024-03-01 to present | Marie Curie Post-doctoral Fellow (Department of Cognition, Development and Educational Psychology)
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University of Barcelona: Barcelona, ES

2022 to 2024-02-29 | Beatriu de Pinòs Post-doctoral fellow (Department of Cognition, Development and Educational Psychology)
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University of Milano-Bicocca: Milan, IT

2021 to 2022 | Post-doctoral Reseracher (Department of Psychology)
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University of Milano-Bicocca: Milan, IT

2019-05-01 to 2021 | POstdoctoral researcher ("Riccardo Massa" Department of Human Sciences for Education)
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Fondazione Istituto Neurologico Nazionale Casimiro Mondino: Pavia, PV, IT

2018-03-01 to 2019-03-31 | Postdoctoral researcher (Department of brain and behavioural science)
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Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer: Barcelona, Catalunya, ES

2017-10-01 to 2018-02-28 | Postdoctoral researche (Eventlab for Neuroscience and Technology)
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Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer: Barcelona, Catalunya, ES

2013-11-01 to 2017-09-30 | PhD student (Eventlab for Neuroscience and Technology)
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Fundación Atendis: Sabadell, Catalunya, ES

2013-05-01 to 2013-10-01 | Physiotherapist (Neurorehbailitation)
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Marta Matamala-Gomez

Institut Guttmann: Badalona, Catalunya, ES

2013-03 to 2013-06 | Researcher assistant (Research in Neurorehabilitation)
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Taller ocupacional Jeroni de Moragas: Barcelona, Catalunya, ES

2007-09 to 2012-12 | Chief of the rehabilitation service (Neurorehabilitation)
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Education and qualifications (5)

Universitat de Barcelona: Barcelona, Catalunya, ES

2013-10-01 to present | PhD (Biomedicine_Neurosciences)
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Institut Guttmann: Badalona, ES

2011-01-11 to 2013-01-10 | Master degree of Neurorehabilitation
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Blanquerna Universitat Ramon Llull Facultat de Psicologia Ciències de l'Educació i de l'Esport: Barcelona, Catalunya, ES

2009 to 2011 | Master degree of psychomotor therapy (Psychology)
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Escoles Universitàries Gimbernat i Tomàs Cerdà: Sant Cugat del Valles, Catalunya, ES

2008 to 2009 | Postgraduate degree of hyppotherapy (Physiotherapy)
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Escoles Universitàries Gimbernat i Tomàs Cerdà: Sant Cugat del Valles, Catalunya, ES

2004-09-01 to 2007-09-01 | Bachelor degree of Physiotherapy (Physiotherapy)
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Peer review (29 reviews for 15 publications/grants)

Review activity for Communications biology. (1)
Review activity for Experimental brain research. (1)
Review activity for Experimental brain research. (1)
Review activity for Heliyon. (1)
Review activity for IEEE transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering : (2)
Review activity for Journal of clinical medicine. (3)
Review activity for Journal of neuropsychology. (2)
Review activity for Journal of rehabilitation and assistive technologies engineering. (1)
Review activity for Neurorehabilitation & neural repair (1)
Review activity for Pain and therapy. (1)
Review activity for Pain reports. (2)
Review activity for PloS one. (2)
Review activity for Trials (3)
Review activity for Virtual reality. (5)
Review activity for Virtual reality. (3)