Caballero Sánchez, Carla, MS.c, Ph.D.

Carla Caballero has studied a Sport Science degree at the University of Extremadura and holds a Master’s degree in Sports Performance and Health and a Ph.D. in Sport Science from the Miguel Hernandez University of Elche (UMH). During her Ph.D. program, she did a pre-doctoral stay at the University of Rouen, the CETAPS research group, in France, and another one in Sheffield Hallam University, in the CSRE research group, in the United Kingdom. She was also working at Rutgers University, NJ, USA, as a postdoctoral member of the Sensory-Motor Integration Lab.

Nowadays, she works as an Assistant Professor teaching Motor Control and Learning at the UMH. She is also a research staff member in the Sport Research Center (CID), specifically in the Motor Control and Learning research group (APCOM).

Her main research interest lies on studying the functional role of motor variability in order to improve motor control and learning process in healthy people and people with neuronal disorders.