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 under the supervision of Dr. Rosa Mª Baños, Dr. Marta Miragall, and Dr. Roberto Llorens (2019-2023). Her doctoral thesis is titled "The interface between interoceptive sensibility and emotion regulation: new insights into this connection", and it was and was graded as "excellent", with a "cum laude" distinction and an international Doctor mention.
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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Contact
Lorena Desdentado
Research Assistant
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Consultation hours
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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
Summer Semester 2024 (Ulm University)
- Colloquium of the Clinical and Health Psychology Department (Bachelor and Master)
- Seminar “Interviewing techniques and observation procedures (exercise)” (Psychology Bachelor of Science)
- Seminar “Research-oriented practical course II - Psychotherapy research” (Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy)
Winter Semester 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).