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Carmen Agustín, professor of the University of Valencia and researcher in Neurosciences, debuts today in the TV program ‘Órbita Laika’
- Scientific Culture and Innovation Unit
- March 25th, 2019
Carmen Agustín Pavón is doctor in Neurosciences from the University of Valencia, biologist and professor at the academic institution.
Carmen Agustín Pavón (Valencia, 1980), doctor in Neurosciences from the University of Valencia, biologist and professor at the same academic institution, begins her collaboration on Órbita Laika today, the La 2 of RTVE dissemination program that last Monday premiered its fifth season. Her line of research is the neurobiological basis of the olfactory and social symptoms in neurological diseases such as Rett’s syndrome.
The researcher of the Joint Research Unit on Functional Neuroanatomy (UV-UJI) will collaborate in the Neuroscience section of the Órbita Laika TV program. Each chapter of the program presented by the mathematician Eduardo Sáenz de Cabezón, from 10 p.m., is devoted to a different theme. Today’s will deal with why people like music.
Carmen Agustín has been a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cambridge (2009-2010), where she researched the emotional regulation of non-human primates and the role of the prefrontal cortex. Also as a postdoc, at the Barcelona Genomic Regulation Centre (2011-2013) and at the Imperial College London (2014), she participated in a project that aimed to develop and test a gene therapy for Huntington’s disease. Since October 2016 she has been an assistant professor in the Faculty of Biology of the University of Valencia.
Carmen Agustín also received the Outstanding Degree Award and a PhD in Neurosciences from the University of Valencia with a thesis on the neurochemistry of pheromone-guided sociosexual behaviours, which received the Outstanding PhD Award. She completed her predoctoral education with a brief stay at La Sapienza University in Rome (2006).
Aside from her research activity, Carmen Agustín has been involved in dissemination since she won the El·lipse Award for Scientific Dissemination of the Barcelona Biomedical research Park in 2011. She is a blogger in the Naukas and Scilogs dissemination platforms, and has published articles in the magazines Redes, Mente y Cerebro, Historia y Vida and Mètode. She has hold lectures in high schools, scientific cafes and informative events, some of which she organises, such as the “neuromascletà” for the World Brain Week. She participates in the program “Stimulating the scientific vocations” of the University of Valencia.
Articles and quotes in ScholarGoogle: https://scholar.google.es/citations?user=62ulV-gAAAAJ&hl=es
Research profile: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Carmen_Agustin-Pavon
Blogs:
http://www.investigacionyciencia.es/blogs/psicologia-y-neurociencia/30/posts
Research group website: http://labneurofun.com/web/index.php/ca-es/
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