is Assistant Professor in Psychology, based at the Institute for Mental Health, School of Psychology, at the University of Birmingham. Originally from the Basque Country in Spain, she has conducted her research in different countries including Spain, USA, Finland and the UK. Since her Ph.D., her main research has focused on understanding mental health problems in young people, and ways to improve mental health.
Currently, she focuses more specifically on understanding sleep problems in children and young people and how sleep problems can be a risk factor for developing mental health problems. In addition, and together with other colleagues at the University of Birmingham she is working on early detection and better treatments for mental health. In this blog, she will be writing primarily about sleep and mental health problems, and also about wider relevant topics of mental health.