My name is Diego Pinal Fernandez, and since February 2023 I am working as Associate Researcher at the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (Spain), exploring neuromodulation for reduction of Cancer pain (Horizon Europe N°101057367) and cognitive rehabilitation for Chemobrain (PID2023-151324OA-I00). My formation includes a Psychology degree (2006) and a Master’s degree in Gerontology (2008). Further, in 2015 I earned my PhD with cum laude and international mentions and awarded (in 2017) with the prize for outstanding Ph.D. theses from the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (Spain). My previous positions as research assistant at the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (Spain) involved the study of the neural correlates of visuospatial working memory (WM) and the impact of healthy aging on such mechanisms. Besides that, there I participated as researcher in six different projects devoted to the study of EEG markers of mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s disease. Later, as a freelance researcher I studied the EEG correlates of executive function in institutionalized children. Throughout these works I mastered the design and implementation of experimental tasks as well as followed different approaches for the analysis of behavioural and EEG data and their relation. For instance, I have used ERPs to assess EEG activity associated with the encoding and retrieval of visuospatial information and in different executive functioning tasks (e.g. go/no-go paradigms). I have also used time-frequency analyses of EEG signals recorded during the information maintenance period in WM tasks, pioneering in the assessment of functional connectivity of neural networks through the computation of phase:amplitude coupling in aged populations. Also, from 2017 to 2023, as FCT postdoctoral fellow (SFRH/BPD/120111/2016) at the Psychological Neuroscience lab of the University of Minho’s Centre for Research in Psychology (Braga, Portugal), I worked on different projects in which we expand the focus to the development across the lifespan of those neural processes that allow individuals to select relevant pieces of information and inhibit distracting or interfering information. Thus, using a multi-method approach (EEG, Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation and functional MRI), I investigate how WM information processing is controlled by executive processes and how both aspects change across human development. In particular, my research focuses on the timely interaction of different brain regions enabling the maintenance of relevant information in WM stores as well as the inhibition of different kinds of interference that may have deleterious effects on WM performance. Also, I am interested on how these neural substrates mediate the effects of physical and experience-related factors (i.e., cardiorespiratory fitness, systemic inflammation and cognitive reserve) in shaping cognitive aging. Understanding that interactions will ultimately help in guiding interventions to alleviate cognitive declines and promote successful aging. Indeed, I am also involved in a project that studies the potential of non-invasive transcranial electrical stimulation protocols to improve executive functions in the elderly. In summary, I have extensive knowledge on WM and inhibitory control and the brain function in their support. Likewise, I have acquired expertise in different methods for the analysis of EEG and fMRI data and to study their relation with factors like cardiorespiratory fitness, systemic inflammation and cognitive reserve; thus, being able to follow and propose multimodal neuroimaging approaches to tackle my research questions. In addition, I have a deep knowledge on normal as well as pathological aging related changes in brain activity supporting superior cognitive processes, with an emphasis on visuospatial WM and inhibitory functions, as well as on the design of electrical stimulation interventions designed to reduce the cognitive burden accompanying old age.