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Lucía B. Palmero Jara is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Basic Psychology at the University of Valencia. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology from the University of Valencia (2018), where she received the Extraordinary Award for Academic Excellence. She completed a Master’s Degree in Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience at the University of Granada (2019) and obtained her PhD in Psychology from the University of Murcia (2023) with cum laude distinction, International Mention, and the Extraordinary Doctoral Award.

Her research focuses on cognitive neuroscience, with a particular interest in attention and memory processes, especially working memory, sustained attention, and vigilance mechanisms (arousal and executive). She combines electrophysiological measures (EEG/ERP) with non-invasive brain stimulation techniques (TMS, tDCS, tACS). In addition, she participates in research lines examining the impact of circadian rhythms on cognitive performance and in applied studies involving simulated driving contexts, as well as experiments aimed at understanding basic cognitive processes. She collaborates with prestigious international research groups, including the Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors (Dortmund, Germany) and the University of Michigan (USA).

She has held a predoctoral FPU fellowship from the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, as well as a postdoctoral position linked to a competitive project funded by the same institution. She has completed international research stays at the University of Basel (Switzerland) and the Paris Lodron University of Salzburg (Austria), as well as a national research stay at the University of Murcia. Since 2019, she has been teaching undergraduate courses in Basic Psychology at several universities, including the University of Murcia, the University of Castilla-La Mancha, and the University of Valencia.

She has published articles in national and international peer-reviewed journals indexed in JCR and book chapters in the field of cognitive neuroscience and experimental psychology. She has participated in several projects funded by the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities and is a member of the Spanish Society for Experimental Psychology (SEPEX).

Her recognitions include the Young Scientist Award from the Science and Technology Agency of the Region of Murcia and the Séneca Foundation, as well as an international award in the Young Investigator category at the Neuromodulation Conference (City College of New York).