DIANA VIRGINIA
CASTILLA LOPEZ

Dr. Diana Castilla is Professor at the Faculty of Psychology, in the Department of Personality, Evaluation and Psychological Treatments at the University of Valencia. She has a degree in Psychology from the University of Valencia and a doctorate from the Universitat Jaume I de Castellón (2014), where she obtained a special doctorate award. She has been a researcher with the Labpsitec research group at Universitat Jaume I (2005-2022). Currently she is director of the research group "SAEM-TIC, Mental Health Technologies", at Universitat de València. Her main line of research is the use of Information and Communication Technologies in the field of Clinical Psychology and Health. Since 2005, she has been involved in the design, development and clinical validation of different technologies in several projects (local, national and European research projects) as well as in research contracts with both public and private entities. As a result of this activity, Dr. Castilla has 15 intellectual and industrial property registers on different technologies for psychological assessment and intervention. Among these, she is co-author and co-owner of "Pain Monitor" APP, a validated app for telemonitoring patients with chronic pain, distinguished with awards such as "best health APP 2018" and "best APP in medicine 2019" in Spain. Author of numerous scientific articles, as well as book chapters. She has also been a speaker at various courses on the use of ICTs in Psychology, as well as at many national and international scientific conferences. He has been teaching in different universities (Universitat Jaume I de Castellón, Universidad de Zaragoza, Universidad de Navarra and Universidad de Valencia) since 2015, in subjects of the degree of Psychology and the Master of General Health Psychology.