CURRICULUM VITAE

Alarcos Cieza is a Senior Scientist at the ICF Research Branch at the Institute for Health and Rehabilitation Sciences (IHRS), located at the Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich, Germany. She is leading a multi-disciplinary research group committed to the determination and understanding of individual behavioural and social determinants of health and quality of life of persons with chronic health conditions and the general population. She was born in 1970 in Ciudad Real, Spain. She received her diploma in Psychology in 1994 from the University "Pontificia Comillas" in Madrid, Spain, and obtained her PhD at the Department of Medical Psychology at the Ludwig-Maximilian University in the fields of Neuropsychology and Health-related Quality of Life. She also obtained a Master's degree in Public Health and is about to receive her venia legendi (Habilitation) at the same university. She is a lecturer in Medical Psychology and in Rehabilitation Sciences.