Concepción
Padilla Franco

Conchi Padilla has a PhD in Neuroscience from the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB). She also has a master's degree in Clinical Language Disorders and an advanced studies diploma from the doctoral programme in Language Intervention at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), a master's degree in Secondary Education Teacher Training from the Spanish National Distance Education University (UNED), and a licentiate degree in Psychology from the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM). She is a professor of Neuropsychology and Speech Therapy in the UOC's Faculty of Health Sciences. She is also a member of the NeuroADaSLab research group. She has worked as a clinical neuropsychologist and postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cambridge and at Barcelona's Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau. During her career, she has combined clinical practice with research on various topics, such as attention and written language disorders, physical exercise for the prevention of cognitive impairment, and Alzheimer's disease in people with Down syndrome. She has published many articles in high-impact international journals. Her main areas of interest are the computerization of assessment and intervention tasks to improve user accessibility, and the use of neuroimaging techniques to study the relationship between cognitive performance, the morphology of the brain and associated physiological changes.