PhD - Autonomous University of Barcelona (AUB, 1999), Diploma in Statistics (AUB, 1997), Master in Design and Statistics in Behavioral Sciences (AUB, 2000), and Master in Child and Adolescent Psychopathology (AUB, 1997).

Full Professor of Methodology. Psychobiology and Methodology Department (AUB, since 2023; Lecturer since 2001; collaborator-teacher during 1999-2000).

Methodological chair and clinical researcher at the Service of Psychiatry of the Bellvitge University Hospital (Barcelona, since 2005). Researcher at the CIBERobn (Physiology of Obesity and Nutrition, an excellence network group).

Research focused on the Eating Disorders, Addictions and Children/Adolescent Psychopathology.

Researcher in multiple National and International Research Projects with public funding. N=347 published works indexed in the JCR (Web of Science: h=40; PlumX: h=53). More than 365 contributions to prestigious clinical national and international congresses-conferences-symposia.

Research interests

Emergent psychiatric disorders (behavioral addictions [gaming disorder or food addiction]), and high vulnerable patients with mental conditions characterized by low scientific attention and treatment barriers (women, young/old ages, dual psychiatric conditions).

Trans-diagnostic psychiatric dimensions: emotional regulation, impulsivity, and neuropsychological functioning.

Conceptual approach to mental disorders, formulation of causal etiological models, development of assessment tools, and elaboration of preventive and intervention programs based on the precision-medicine-approach.

High expertise in methodology, contributing to incorporate innovative procedures in the psychiatric area (Network Analysis, Latent Growth Curve Modeling, path Structural Equation Modeling, and Survival Analysis). Also contributing to improve treatment plans for mental disorders into the impulsive-compulsive spectrum (including three-generation technological approaches, such serious video games).

Keywords

Methodology, Statistics, Psychometry, Design of studies, Clinical Psychology, Psychiatry, Eating Disorders, Behavioral Addictions