The Mind, Brain and Behavior Research Center (CIMCYC) is betting on young talent with its "Support program for new collaborative projects for young researchers".
This program, part of the strategy as a María de Maeztu Unit of Excellence, aims to fund small collaborative projects proposed by young researchers from different research groups within the center. The goal is to foster new scientific collaborations that, in the future, may lead to larger-scale projects with which to apply for international, national and regional funding calls with higher chance of success.
These projects must be co-led by two young researchers with no prior collaborations, from different CIMCYC research groups , thus encouraging the creation of novel lines of work and interdisciplinary synergies. This allows recent postdocs (maximum of five years since obtaining their degree) and PhD students, from their second year onwards, to assume a leadership role.
To date, the program has completed two calls in which eleven novel projects have been funded.
Awarded Projects - September 2025 Call
Awake enough? Quantifying sleep-onset intrusions in non-sleep EEG paradigms (QSI)
Clara Alameda Jiménez (HUM957: Brain & Human Cognition) and Águeda Fuentes-Guerra Toral (HUM379: Cognitive Neuroscience).
Breakup circumstances, Recovery, Identity, Grief and Gender in relationship Endings (BRIDGE)
PIs: Andrea Redondo Armenteros (CTS436: Psychosocial and Cross-Cultural Aspects of Health and Illness) and Marina Muñoz González (HUM289: Psychology of Social Problems).
Family Stress Spillover and Social Dynamics as Predictors of Child Psychopathology. (FAMCARE)
PIs: María Alonso Ferres (HUM289: Psychology of Social Problems) and Miguel Ángel Baos González (CTS581: Applied Neuropsychology and Psychoneuroimmunology (PNínsula)).
From Power to Violence: Exploring Attitudes, Motivations, and Emotions in Male Perpetrators of Intimate Partner Violence Against Women. (POWER-IPVAW)
PIs: Alba M. Oviedo Castillejo Gutiérrez (HUM289: Psychology of Social Problems) and Noelia Pérez Cámara (CTS581: Applied Neuropsychology and Psychoneuroimmunology (PNínsula)).
Mapping the Lived Experience of Harmful Design in Gambling: A User-Led Taxonomy of products’ structural features
PIs: Jose López Guerrero (CTS176: Learning, Emotion and Decision) and Jeanette Alicia Chacón Candia (HUM379: Cognitive Neuroscience).
Awarded Projects - January 2026 Call
Beyond Anxiety: A multi-Disciplinary Re-conceptualization of Status Anxiety.
PIs: Luis Mundi López (HUM289: Psychology of Social Problems) and Julia Arnal de la Peña (CTS581: Applied Neuropsychology and Psychoneuroimmunology (PNínsula)).
Building a normalization modeling framework: fractionating Binge Eating behavior based on attentional network connectivity.
PIs: María García de Viedma Ferreras (HUM379: Cognitive Neuroscience) and Francisco Javier Pérez Comino (CTS581: Applied Neuropsychology and Psychoneuroimmunology (PNínsula)).
Counterfactual Thinking and Emotional Pathways to Political Mobilization in Democratic Contexts. (COEMOB)
PIs: Eva Moreno-Bella (HUM289: Psychology of Social Problems) and Jesica Gómez Sánchez (SEJ069: Thinking, Cognition and Driving).
Self-Regulation in Intimate Partner Violence: The Intergenerational Transmission in Mother-Child Dyads. (EMOCHILD)
PIs: Patricia Ayllón Salas (SEJ535: Education, Evaluation and Entrepreneurship) and Ana Isabel de Luis Ruiz (CTS581: Applied Neuropsychology and Psychoneuroimmunology (PNínsula)).
Sexual Health Assessment: Addressing Measurement Invariance Problems in Sexual Cognition Items with the Maieutic Method
PIs: David Sánchez Casasola (HUM624: Modeling and Measurement of Human Behavior) and Ana Álvarez Muelas (CTS261: Clinical Psychophysiology and Health Promotion).
Understanding the Learning and Unlearning Dynamics of Myths about (Cyber)Violence Against Women. (UNLEARN-CVAW)
PIs: Francisco Garre Frutos (HUM379: Cognitive Neuroscience) and Rocío Vizcaíno Cuenca (HUM289: Psychology of Social Problems).
This activity is part of the grant CEX2023-001312-M, funded by MICIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033.