Sandra Cabanes holds a PhD in Advanced Hispanic Studies from the University of Valencia, with the dissertation “Análisis multimodal en la distinción entre intervención y turno: efectos en la segmentación de la conversación desde el modelo Val.Es.Co.”. She currently works in the Department of Spanish Philology at the same university, developing the Val.Es.Co. Corpus of colloquial Spanish conversations. She specializes in multimodality, corpus linguistics, and colloquial conversation.