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Desire Colombo earned her Bachelor's degree in Psychology from the University of Bergamo, Italy, and a Master's in Cognitive Neuroscience from San Raffaele University, Milan. In 2017, she was awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie ITN Fellowship at Jaume I University, where she focused on mobile apps to enhance well-being. Between 2018 and 2019, she participated in two secondments at Philips Research (Netherlands), contributing to cutting-edge research in technology and mental health. She completed her PhD in 2020, earning international recognition, including the Extraordinary PhD Award and the Best PhD Award from the Spanish Society of Positive Psychology. In 2022, she was awarded a Juan de la Cierva Postdoctoral Fellowship at Valencia University, continuing her research on mobile apps for emotion regulation. Following this, she received the Margarita Sala Postdoctoral Fellowship, which included one year of research at Vrije University (Amsterdam) and one year at Jaume I University (Spain), focusing on emotion regulation deficits in depression. Currently, she is a Senior Postdoctoral Researcher at Valencia University, where she is part of the IMPULSA project (CIPROM/2021/041). Her work explores the use of Information and Communication Technologies to investigate emotion regulation and well-being, with a particular focus on positive emotions and cognitive processes in daily life.