Lorena Desdentado

Lorena Desdentado graduated in Psychology from the University of Valencia (Spain) in 2016, with an Extraordinary Award and an acknowledgement for academic excellence from the Generalitat Valenciana (i.e., regional government in Spain). Afterwards, she completed a Master’s Degree in Clinical Neuropsychology at the Instituto Superior de Estudios Psicológicos - Valencia (2017) and a Master’s Degree in General Health Psychology at the University of Valencia (2019), the latter with an Extraordinary Award. In 2019, she obtained a national grant (Training Programme for Academic Stuff, FPU) from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation to complete her PhD studies at the University of Valencia, which she is currently finishing under the supervision of Dr. Rosa Mª Baños, Dr. Marta Miragall, and Dr. Roberto Llorens. As part of her PhD studies, she visited the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology at the Ulm University for a 3-month research stay, where she is currently working as a researcher. She is also studying a Master’s Degree in Methodology in Behavioural and Health Sciences at the Complutense University of Madrid (Spain).

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Lorena Desdentado
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Lorena Desdentado
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Web of Science Research ID: AAH-9307-202

 

Research Interests

  •     Interoception
  •     Emotion regulation
  •     Psychopathology and positive psychology
  •     Body image and body schema
  •     Emotional and cognitive processes in acquired brain injury
  •     Virtual reality as a tool for psychological assessment and intervention
  •     Applied statistics and data science

Studies and research activity

since 10/2023 Researcher in the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, Institute of Psychology and Education, Ulm University
since 2022 Master’s Degree in Behavioural and Health Sciences (Complutense University of Madrid)
10/2019 – 10/2023 Research Staff in Training at the University of Valencia through the Training Programme for Academic Stuff (FPU) of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation. PhD programme: Research on Psychology.
2017 – 2019 Master’s Degree in General Health Psychology (University of Valencia)
2015 – 2017 Master’s Degree in Clinical Neuropsychology (Instituto Superior de Estudios Psicológicos-Valencia)
2012 – 2016

Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology (University of Valencia)

Teaching

10/2023

  • Colloquium of the Clinical and Health Psychology Department (Bachelor and Master, Ulm University)
  • Psychopathology (Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology, University of Valencia)
  • Psychological Assessment (Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology, University of Valencia)

2022 – 2023

  • Psychological interventions and treatments (Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology, University of Valencia)

2021 – 2022

  • Psychopathology (Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology, University of Valencia)
  • Criminal Psychology (Double Bachelor’s Degree in Law + Criminology, University of Valencia)
  • Prevention and treatment of delinquency (Double Bachelor’s Degree in Law + Criminology, University of Valencia)

2020 – 2021

  • Psychopathology (Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology, University of Valencia)
  • Personality and Individual Differences (Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology, University of Valencia)

Membership

  •     Labpsitec-Valencia (GIUV2017-380): Psychology and Tecnology Lab
  •     Excellence group CIBEROBN "Fisiopathology of Obesity and Nutrition" (CB06/03/0052) (Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain).