Dr Ana I. Pérez

Ana main research interests focus on language comprehension and the cognitive processes underlying the development and education of efficient comprehension across the life-span. After completing a Master’s degree in Cognitive and Behavioural Neuroscience (2009), Ana got a 4-year Spanish research grant to do her PhD in Experimental Psychology and Behavioural Neuroscience at the University of Granada (Spain, 2009–2014). During that time, she focused on different high−level reading processes involved in the construction of a mental representation during on−line text comprehension, and she was a visiting scholar in different research teams in Italy (University of Padua) and the UK (Lancaster University and University of Oxford). After her PhD, Ana worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Granada, in a project investigating language comprehension on bilingualism (2014–2015). Subsequently, Ana worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher for the French National Centre of Scientific Research (CNRS) in the University of Poitiers, in a European educational project to foster multiple document literacy skills in adolescents (2015–2016). Ana is currently working as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the University of Cambridge to investigate multilingualism, language, literacy and cognition.