Felipe Rojas
Dr. Felipe Rojas-Thomas is an Assistant Professor at the School of Psychology, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez (UAI). Dr. Rojas-Thomas earned his BSc in Psychology and professional Psychologist degree from Universidad de Valparaíso, Chile. He also holds an MSc in Neuroscience and an MSc in Biology with a specialization in Neuroscience from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and Universidad de Valparaíso, respectively. Additionally, he completed his PhD in Neuroscience at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. During or after his doctoral training, he was affiliated with the Clinical Neuroscience Center at Universidad Austral and the School of Psychology at Universidad del Desarrollo.
Graduate Student
Fiorella Macchiavello
Fiorella Macchiavello is a graduate student in the Master’s program in Clinical Psychology at Adolfo Ibáñez University, where she also earned her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology. Her experience as a research assistant includes contributions to projects in experimental psychology and neuroscience. In particular, her work focuses on exploring the impact of socioeconomic vulnerability on empathic brain responses and prosocial behavior, as well as collaborating on studies related to social cognition and consumer behavior.
José Bórquez
José Bórquez is a master's student in neuroscience at the University Adolfo Ibañez, he has realice his Bachalor`s degree in the same university. José has been involved in research that evaluates decision-making under stressful contexts, an area in which he is interested in further deepening in the future, in addition to participating in research related to empathy, social vulnerability and his effect in the social behavior, whit phisologyc meditions like EEG, EKG and Eye Tracker. In his free time, José likes to spend time with his cats, watch movies and read books.
Consuelo Ruiz Moya, research assistant Consuelo graduated as a psychologist with a clinical master's degree from the Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, and currently participates as a research assistant at ESDLab in studies on empathy and stress, in parallel with studies on resilience and vulnerability. She is interested in researching and exploring consciousness from a neurophenomenological approach, in order to increase the understanding of consciousness and its connection with the body, to contribute to therapeutic practices and thus improve sociecological well-being. Outside the lab Consuelo is a psychotherapist and climber.
Consuelo Ruiz Moya
Research Assistant
Dr. Sebastian Contreras-Huerta is an Assistant Professor at the School of Psychology, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez (UAI). Before joining UAI, he served| as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Centre for Human Brain Health and the Institute for Mental Health, University of Birmingham. Dr. Contreras-Huerta earned his BSc in Psychology and professional Psychologist degree from Universidad de Valparaíso, Chile. He went on to complete an MSc in Neuroscience at the University of Queensland, Australia, and a PhD in Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford. Prior to his doctoral studies, he was an associate researcher and lecturer at the School of Psychology, Universidad Diego Portales, Chile.