Filipa M.B. Lã (PhD)
Lab Director
Senior researcher and teacher at the Department of Didactics, School Organization and Special Didactics of the Faculty of Education at the National Distance Education University (UNED), Madrid, Spain. A voice scientist, singer and teacher of singing, she holds a Diploma in Education (Biology) by the University of Coimbra, in Portugal, and a Master and Ph.D. in Music (singing), both granted by the University of Sheffield, U.K.. Her research interests cover an interdisciplinary perspective to Social Sciences and to Arts and Humanities. Research topics include voice-related gender studies and health education, focusing on professional voice users and performing professions, namely actors and musicians. [more information…]
Nuria Polo (PhD)
Researcher
Associate professor at the Department of Spanish Language and General Linguistics, of the Faculty of Philology at the National Distance Education University (UNED), Madrid, Spain. She is the responsible for Theoretical Linguistic. Her research includes Phonetics and Phonology of Spanish, the Acquisition of Phonology of Spanish, Voice Studies from a gender perspective. Author of Teoría y Práctica de la Fonología by Editorial Síntesis. Diploma in Hispanic Philology (Universidad de Deusto), General Linguistics (UAM), Master in Phonetics and Phonology, specialty Vocal Science (CSIC-UIMP) and Ph.D. in Spanish Linguistics (UCM, extraordinary prize and European doctor). [more information…]
Pastora Martínez Castilla (PhD)
Researcher
Professor in the Department of Developmental and Educational Psychology at the National Distance Education University (UNED). Her research focuses on the study of typical and altered development, linguistic and musical processing, and human well-being throughout the life cycle. She holds a PhD in Psychology from the Autonomous University of Madrid, a Program in Cognition and Disorders, a European Doctorate, and an Outstanding Award. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the Autonomous University of Madrid. She holds teaching qualifications in music theory, music theory, transposition, and accompaniment, and piano teaching from the Royal Conservatory of Madrid. [more information…]
Elena López-Riobóo Moreno (PhD)
Researcher
Associate Professor in the Department of Developmental and Educational Psychology at the National Distance Education University (UNED). She is currently completing a thesis in Psychology from the National University of Distance Education. She holds a Master’s Degree in Psychological Intervention in Development and Education, specializing in Developmental Disorders and Disabilities, UNED. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Linguistics from the Complutense University of Madrid, and a Diploma in Speech Therapy from the Complutense University of Madrid. She specializes in the care of people with intellectual disabilities and specialized interventions throughout the life cycle. Her areas of interest include language, evidence-based practice, and quality of life. [more information…]
Pluvio Coronado (MD, PhD)
Researcher
Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Faculty of Medicine of the Complutense University of Madrid. Academic Correspondent of the Royal National Academy of Medicine since 2003. Doctor by the Complutense University with honors. With a master in Health Management and Healthcare Companies is a specialist in Obstetrics and Gynecology via MIR and Section Head and Coordinator of the Gynecological Oncology Unit and Inferior Genital Tact of the Women’s Health Institute José Botella Llusiá from the San Carlos Clinic Hospital in Madrid. He currently holds the position of Secretary of the Management Board of the Spanish Association for the Study of Menopause (AEEM), is the voice of the Management Board of the HPV Association -Madrid and the Treasurer of the Gynecological Oncology Section of SEGO. [more information…]
Celia Teira Serrado (PhD)
Researcher
PhD by the Autonomous University of Madrid with the thesis Prosody and syntax in sentence processing: a study on the relationships between prosodic and syntactic components in the comprehension and production of structurally ambiguous sentences in Spanish 2010. Supervised by Dr. José Manuel Igoa González. [more information…]
Claudia Fernández de Cañete García
Predoctoral student
FPU predoctoral researcher in the Department of Developmental and Educational Psychology at the National Distance Education University (UNED). She has a double major in English Studies and Music, having graduated from the University of Málaga and the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Málaga, respectively. She also completed a Master of Science in Performance Science from the Royal College of Music (London).
Her research focuses on the impact of second language learning and musical instrument practice during childhood, exploring their influence on different areas of child development, with a special emphasis on cognitive development, language development, and well-being in typically developing children.
Beyond her research, she has a solid teaching career as a music professor at private conservatories and has participated as a pianist in numerous concerts. [more information…]
Mauro Barro Fiuza
Predoctoral student
Pre doctoral student at the Faculty of Education of the National Distance Education University (UNED), in Spain, research assistant at the UNED VoiceLab and teacher of singing. Graduated in Music Education and Master in Speech Language Pathology in Brazil. Research topics include singing voice production and teaching, intentional vocal distortions produced by singers, technology and real-time feedback for learning-teaching singing. [more information…]
Mario Casado Mancebo
Predoctoral student
FPI Research Fellow in the Department of Spanish Language and General Linguistics at the National Distance Education University (UNED) and a substitute professor in the Department of Linguistics, Arabic, Hebrew, Basque, and East Asian Studies at the UCM. His current research focuses on the acoustic cues that mediate the interaction of phonology with syntax. In the field of computational linguistics, he has worked for international companies, focusing from phonetic corpus supervision to natural language processing in voice assistants. [more information…]
Paula Barriendo Cebrián
Predoctoral student
FPI predoctoral researcher in the Department of Spanish Language and General Linguistics at the National Distance Education University (UNED). She holds a degree in Hispanic Philology and a Master’s degree in Advanced Hispanic Studies from the University of Seville. She is part of the project “Gender Stereotypes in Women’s Voice and Speech” (ESTEREOFeM) [PID2021-122607OA-100], funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation. Her research is carried out at the UNED Voice, Music and Language Laboratory. Her main research topics include gender studies associated with the voice, including its production and perception. [more information…]
Jordi Just Alcaraz
Research assistant
Research assistant (PEJ-2024-AI/PH-HUM-33633) in the UNED VoiceLab research group and in the eponymous laboratory, as well as PDI in the Department of Didactics, School Organization and Special Didactics of the Faculty of Education at UNED. He holds a degree in Hispanic Philology and a Master’s degree in Linguistic Research from the University of Salamanca. His lines of work include phonetics and phonology (articulatory, acoustic and perceptual) from an interdisciplinary perspective. His research focus includes contributions in forensic linguistics, with a publication on voice matching (Just Alcaraz, 2023), and in clinical linguistics, with another publication on rhythmic biomarkers of Major Depression and Alzheimer’s (Just Alcaraz and Ivanova, 2025). [more information…]