Research

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Eye movements are tightly linked to deeper perceptual and cognitive processes and give a continuous insight on how these take place. They are also the way we get detailed dynamic information of the world around us, and they regularly prompt the need to make choices and execute decisions (i.e., move to the right to avoid a confused bird flying towards you). I am interested in using tasks that evaluate saccades and smooth pursuit eye movements as a tool to explore cognitive processes related to decision-making and risk-awareness in psychiatric populations living with mood disorders.

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Education:

• B.Sc. in Biology from Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia (October 2020)
• B.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering from Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia (April 2019)

Research experience:

• Since 09/2021 - Graduate (MSc) student and research assistant in the UBC Oculomotor Lab (Prof. Dr. Miriam Spering), Dept. Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, UBC, Vancouver, BC, Canada
• 01/2019-06/2020 - Undergraduate (BSc) research student in the Biom|cs Laboratory (Prof. Dr. Andrew Crawford), Dept. Biological Sciences, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia