Desiree Colombo obtained her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the University of Bergamo (Italy) and a Master’s degree in Cognitive Neuroscience from Vita-Salute San Raffaele University in Milan. In 2017, she received a Marie Skłodowska-Curie ITN fellowship at Universitat Jaume I, where she began her research on the use of mobile applications to improve well-being. Between 2018 and 2019, she completed two research stays at Philips Research (The Netherlands), where she contributed to cutting-edge research projects in the field of technology applied to mental health. She completed her PhD in 2020 with major distinctions, receiving the Extraordinary Doctoral Award and the Best Doctoral Thesis Award from the Spanish Society of Positive Psychology.
During her postdoctoral career, she was awarded a Juan de la Cierva fellowship at the University of Valencia in 2022, where she continued developing her research line on the use of mobile applications for emotion regulation. She subsequently received the Margarita Salas postdoctoral fellowship, which included one year of research at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and a second year at Universitat Jaume I (Spain), focusing on emotional regulation deficits in depression. In 2025, she joined the University of Valencia as a Senior Postdoctoral Researcher, contributing to the IMPULSA project (CIPROM/2021/041).
She is currently a Ramón y Cajal Researcher. Her research focuses on the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to study emotion regulation and well-being in everyday life, with particular attention to the role of positive emotions and associated cognitive processes.