About me

I am a Ph.D. candidate in Cognitive Neuroscience at Duke University, working with Dr. Felipe De Brigard. My main research interest is the relationship between forgiveness, memory, and emotion. Specifically, I focus on how forgiveness impacts the experience of remembering past wrongdoings. I aim to understand how reappraising these memories allows people to recall them without the pain they originally caused, and how this process is related to forgiveness. I am particularly interested in the effect of forgiveness on traumatic memories in the context of war, where forgiveness can lead to significant change. As part of this, a key area of my research is conducted in Colombia with victims of the internal armed conflict.

I earned her B.A. in Psychology from Universidad Javeriana and my M.A. from Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá, Colombia).