Dr. Fernando Luna

Postdoc

Room 205
Consultation hours: on appointment

Phone +49 3834 420 3796

fernando.luna@uni-greifswald.de

Research Interests

My research interests are mainly focused on the neurocognitve mechanisms associated with the vigilance decrement phenomenon, i.e., the progressive loss of sustained attention in prolonged tasks. I have contributed in analyzing vigilance as two dissociated components (i.e., executive and arousal vigilance), which are part of the attentional networks system. In the last years, I have been working on how different brain stimulation techniques (in particular, transcranial direct current stimulation -tDCS- and trascutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation -taVNS-) can mitigate the vigilance decrement.

Vita

04/2023 to date Research grant "Promotion of Vigilance and attention through transcutaneous stimulation of the vagus nerve" within the framework of the Walter Benjamin Programme by the German Research Foundation (DFG).    
08/2016 to date Assistant Professor with part-time dedication
Faculty of Psychology, National University of Córdoba, Argentina.
   
04/2020-03/2023 Post-doctoral scholarship granted by the CONICET (National Scientific and Technical Research Council), Argentina.    
2016 - 2019 Doctor in Psychology, University of Granada, Spain
Title of the dissertation: “Attentional Networks and Executive and Arousal Vigilance”
   
2008 - 2013 Degree in Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, National University of Córdoba, Argentina.