Affiliation: Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC), Neurovascular Pathophysiology Group

Dr. Alicia García-Culebras works as a postdoctoral fellow at the Neurovascular Pathophysiology Group at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (Madrid, Spain) and is a member of the Neurovascular Research Unit at the School of Medicine at the Complutense University of Madrid. Dr. García-Culebras graduated in biology in the year 2009 at the Autónoma University of Madrid. Afterward, she carried out her PhD in Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biomedicine at UCM studied different aspects within the physiopathology of stroke. Currently, her research is focus on the study of stroke and vascular cognitive impairment, specifically, the immune response after stroke and its impact on the outcome, including cognitive function.