About me

Marina López Solà, Ph.D., is a tenured Serra Húnter Associate Professor at the School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Barcelona, and holds a volunteer affiliate appointment at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital / University of Cincinnati, where she previously established her independent research program. She is an internationally recognized neuroscientist in pain and affective science and the recipient of major competitive funding, including an NIH R01 and an ERC Consolidator Grant and an ICREA academia excellence research award. Dr. López Solà directs the PENlab (Pain and Emotion Neuroscience Laboratory), a well-funded, multidisciplinary research group dedicated to identifying brain–mind–body mechanisms underlying pain and affective symptoms across development, with a particula