ANA ROSA SEPÚLVEDA GARCÍA

AUTONOMOUS UNIVERSITY OF MADRID. SPAIN

Dr. Ana Rosa Sepúlveda has been affiliated with the Faculty of Psychology at the Autonomous University of Madrid for over 20 years. She currently holds the position of Deputy Director of the Department of Biological and Health Psychology. Her work has focused on eating disorders and, in the last decade, on childhood obesity. 

Since 2009, she has supervised the ANOBAS group, created with the Ramón y Cajal Excellence Research Grant she received that same year. In 2017, the EstiLIFE Research group (UAM) was consolidated, with a joint line dedicated to childhood obesity funded three times by the Ministry of Science and Innovation. 

She has received several awards for her research work, including the Lafourcade-Ponce Award (2014) and a BBVA Foundation grant in 2014. She is a member of the Leonardo Network of Excellence Researchers. She also received the Senior Researcher Salvador de Madariaga Grant (2018-19) at the Institute of Neurosciences of Buenos Aires. She has coordinated the Eating Disorders Consultancy at the UAM Applied Psychology Center (2012-16) and has been a professional tutor in the MPGS-UAM. She is a board member of the Spanish Association for the Study of Eating Disorders (AEETCA) and a member of the Association for Eating Disorders (HCLA-AED), having participated in organizing numerous scientific events within these organizations.