Francisco Rocabado

My research career began as a Research Assistant at the Universitat de València under the supervision of Prof. Manuel Perea, a formative period that shaped my interest in experimental psycholinguistics and resulted in my first publication in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. I then secured an Erasmus+ Traineeship to conduct a pre-doctoral research stay at Bournemouth University (UK) with Prof. Bernhard Angele, which initiated a cross-linguistic line of research on word-skipping across English, Turkish, and Spanish, the results of which are currently being finalized for publication. Building on these foundations, I was awarded a Banco Santander predoctoral training contract that enabled me to pursue my Ph.D. in Education and Cognitive Processes at Universidad Nebrija, under the supervision of prof. Jon Andoni Duñabeitia, where I further developed my focus on integrating methodological precision with research designs that better approximate real-world cognitive and linguistic behavior. I completed my PhD in 2025 with the distinction of Cum Laude and an International Mention. During my doctoral research stage at the Centro de Investigación Nebrija en Cognición (CINC) I explored how Virtual Reality (VR) can serve as a methodological link between experimental control and the complexity of real-world behavior. To develop expertise in these tools, I carried out a national research stay at the University of Valencia with Prof. Manuel Perea, where I validated VR paradigms for brand identity studies. One year later, I completed a second international stay at the RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau (Germany) with Prof. Thomas Lachmann. This experience was central to the development of VR protocols for cognitive assessment and contributed to consolidating my profile in this methodological area. These collaborations strengthened the international projection of my research. This growing visibility led to invited talks extended by Prof. Pablo Gómez at Skidmore College in the United States in 2024 and by Prof. Lenia Matos at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru in 2025. Far from being isolated events, these invitations have catalyzed active international projects investigating orthographic flexibility in real-world contexts with USA partners and educational narrator variability with Peruvian institutions, respectively. The latter builds on the synergies identified in my earlier research on contextual diversity with Prof. Eva Rosa and within the INVOLE project. Beyond fundamental research, I maintain a strong commitment to knowledge transfer and social impact. I established a high-value collaboration with the Dravet Syndrome European Federation, where I led the validation of a Quality-of-Life assessment instrument for patients and caregivers in 10 European languages. This initiative provided a clinically relevant tool for the rare disease community and directly supported part of my research activity. I also contribute to teaching innovation and educational transfer through initiatives that apply AI-driven virtual patients to support clinical skills training, which resulted in a book chapter and a Q1 publication in Psicothema. In addition, as a member of the International Chair in Cognitive Health (CogniFit), I participated as a speaker in the Semana del Envejecimiento Saludable y la Longevidad, where I presented evidence on cognitive reserve to older adults. These activities illustrate my broader commitment to translating scientific knowledge into accessible and socially meaningful contexts. Across projects, I have built a technical profile that combines experimental design and statistical analyses (R, Python, JScript), eye-tracking, and VR development for behavioral research. My work spans diverse populations, including bilingual adults, university students and school-aged children. Deeply committed to Research