Luis Cásedas | Luis completed an MSc in Neuroscience and Cognition at Utrecht University and obtained his PhD at the University of Granada under the supervision of Juan Lupiáñez, with short stays at the University of Oxford and UC-Santa Barbara. He joined our team in September 2023 with a postdoctoral contract and then obtained a prestigious Juan-de-la-Cierva fellowship from the Spanish Research Agency. His research explores whether and how mindfulness training affects executive function and mindwandering. He also leads the INMINDS interviews series. For more information, visit his website or his profiles at ResearchGate and Twitter/X.

Laura Cepedo Amores | Laura works as a research assistant on a project using eyetracking measures to explore learning in visual search tasks. She is also completing her PhD at UAM under the supervision of Victoria Plaza and Pilar Aivar. For more information, visit her Google Scholar profile.

Ignacio Castillejo-Ruiz | Nacho obtained a MSc in Research Methods for the Behavioural and Health Sciences at UAM and then joined our team with an “Investigo” contract funded by regional government of Madrid. He now works on his PhD at UAM under an FPI-CM fellowship. His research focuses on the computational modeling of working memory with recurrent neural networks. For more information, visit his profiles at Google Scholar and Twitter/X.

Juan Gabriel Fernández | Juan is a secondary-school teacher at Colegio Virgen de Mirasierra, Madrid. He is also the author of an extremely popular blog and several books on evidence-based education. His PhD thesis, cosupervised by Marta Ferrero and me, is focused on popular misconceptions among educators and interventions aimed at reducing them. For more information, visit his profiles at Google Scholar and Twitter/X.

Alicia Franco-Martínez | Alicia obtained a MSc in Research Methods for the Behavioural and Health Sciences at UAM and then joined our team with an FPI fellowship from the Spanish Ministry for Science, Innovation, and Universities. Her research focuses on computational models of awareness and memory-guided visual search. She is also leading an international, multisite replication project on unconscious working memory. For more information, visit her profiles at Google Scholar and Twitter/X.

Francisco Garre-Frutos | Fran obtained a MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Granada and then obtained an FPU predoctoral fellowship. His thesis, cosupervised by Juan Lupiáñez and me, focuses on value-modulated attentional capture and the psychometric properties of experimental tasks. For more information, visit his profiles at Google Scholar and Twitter/X.

Guillermo Llaneza Fernández | Guillermo is conducting an internship in our research team to complete his BSc in Psychology at UAM. Simultaneously, he is pursuing a BSc in Brain Science at Maastricht University. His work focuses on neural network models of cognition.

Ricardo Rey-Sáez | Ricardo obtained a MSc in Research Methods for the Behavioural and Health Sciences at UAM and then joined our team with a contract funded by a grant from the Spanish Research Countil. His research focuses on the psychometric properties of experimental tasks. For more information, visit his profile at Twitter/X.

Alejandro Sandoval-Lentisco | Alejandro obtained a master’s degree in Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Granada and completed his PhD at the University of Murcia, with short research stays at the University of Amsterdam and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität. He joined our team in 2025 with a contract funded by a grant from the Spanish Research Council. Currently, he is a postdoctoral researcher under the supervision of John Ioannidis at METRICS, Stanford, but he will return to our team in 2026 with a Juan-de-la-Cierva fellowship. His research focuses on the assessment and improvement of scientific practices in psychological research. For more information, visit his Google Scholar profile.

Paula Balea | Paula worked as a postdoctoral researcher in our team between 2020 and 2021. Currently, she is a lecturer (profesor ayudante doctor) at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos. For more information, visit her profile at URJC.

Han Bao | Han completed his Master’s degree in our team. His thesis explored how experience with visual search displays affects oculomotor measures of attention.

Luis Ciria | Luis obtained a prestigious Juan-de-la-Cierva postdoctoral fellowship to join our team in 2021. He is currently a Ramón-y-Cajal postdoctoral fellow at the University of Granada. For more information, visit his Google Scholar profile.

Carmelo P. Cubillas | Carmelo completed his PhD under the supervision of Helena Matute and myself in 2013. After a few years working for the private sector, he moved back to academia as a lecturer at UDIMA. He is currently an associate professor (profesor permanente laboral) at UAM. For more information, visit his Google Scholar profile.

Marta Ferrero | Marta worked under my supervision as a postdoctoral researcher from 2017 to 2019. She then obtained a lecturership at Universidad Complutense de Madrid and eventually moved to UAM, where she is now an associate professor (profesor permanente laboral) and vice-dean for research at the School of Education. For more information, visit her Google Scholar profile.

Pablo Garaizar | I cosupervised the PhD thesis of Pablo with Prof Diego López-de-Ipiña back in 2013, at the University of Deusto. Pablo is now an associate professor (profesor titular) at the Computer Science Department of the University of Deusto. For more information, visit his Google Scholar profile.

Tamara Giménez-Fernández | I co-supervised the PhD thesis of Tamara with David Luque. Immediately after finishing her thesis in 2022 she obtained a Juan-de-la-Cierva postdoctoral fellowship and then a lecturership at the University of Murcia. She is now a lecturer (profesor ayudante doctor) at UAM. For more information, visit her Google Scholar profile.

David Hernández-Gutiérrez | David was a postdoctoral researcher in our lab between 2020 and 2022, before moving to the Basque Center for Cognition, Brain, and Language as a Juan-de-la-Cierva postdoctoral fellow. He is now a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Rochester. For more information, visit his Google Scholar profile.

Rubén López-Nicolás | Rubén joined our team in February 2024 with a postdoctoral contract and was awarded a Juan-de-la-Cierta fellowship, which he eventually declined to join the University of Castilla-La Mancha as a lecturer. He leads the ReproducibilityTeaUM meetings. For more information, visit his Google Scholar profile.

Joaquín Morís | Joaquín joined our team as a postdoctoral researcher between 2019 and 2020. He is now an associate professor (profesor titular) at the University of Málaga. For more information, visit his Google Scholar profile.

Luis Morís Fernández | Luis worked in our team from 2018 to 2020. He left academia to work as a consultant for a big pharma company. For more information, visit his Google Scholar profile.

Juan Francisco Navas | Fran was a postdoctoral researcher in our team from 2019 to 2020. He then moved to Universidad Complutense de Madrid with a Juan-de-la-Cierva postdoctoral fellowship. He remains at UCM as an associate professor (profesor permanente laboral). For more information, visit his Google Scholar profile.

Martine Nurek | Martine obtained his PhD at King’s working under the co-supervision of Olga Kostopoulou and myself. She then moved to Imperial College London as a postdoctoral researcher. For more information, visit her ResearchGate profile.

Fernando Ojedo | Fernando worked in our team as a postdoctoral researcher from 2023 to 2025. He is now a lecturer at Universidad Europea de Madrid. For more information, visit his Google Scholar profile.

Nerea Ortega-Castro | Nerea Ortega obtained her PhD at the University of Deusto in 2014, co-supervised by Andy Baker and me, and then accepted a position as associate professor at Universidad Loyola Andalucía. For more information, visit her Google Scholar profile.

Cristina Rodríguez-Prada | Cristina joined our team as a research assistant in 2022. Then she obtained an FPI-UAM predoctoral fellowship to complete her thesis in the area of research methods. For more information, visit her Google Scholar profile.

Francisco Vicente-Conesa | Fran completed his PhD under my supervision in 2023, thanks to an FPI predoctoral fellowship from the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation, and Universities. He is now a lecturer at UNIE and UAX. For more information, visit his Google Scholar profile.

Akkapon Wongkoblap | Akkapon completed his PhD at Kings in 2021, co-supervised by Vasa Curcin and myself. He is now a lecturer at Suranaree University of Technology, Thailand. For more information, visit his Google Scholar profile.