Catherine Iris Andreu Cafati

I obtained my PhD in Neurosciences from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. In my doctoral thesis, I investigated the effect of meditation practice on cognitive control using electrophysiological measures. Later, I received the Francisco Varela Award from Mind and Life Europe, where I conducted research on mindfulness in education in Chile.

Subsequently, I carried out postdoctoral research at the University of Valencia, focusing on the effects of compassion practice on psychobiological measures in a population of healthcare and aid professionals. Additionally, I began working with virtual reality as a technology to support meditation practice, achieving very positive results.

Currently, I am working as a postdoctoral researcher at the Intangible Realities Laboratory (IRL) at CiTIUS, where I am developing a research project that uses numadelic virtual reality technology to potentially support the mental health of people diagnosed with a terminal illness.