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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.
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