Verónica Robles is an investigator and teacher within Physiotherapy, Medicine and Biomedic Sciences Department in Universidade da Coruña since 2014. She worked in different centers of neurorehabilitation until she collaborated in a project of International Cooperation in Nicaragua, in Las Segovias, and she started her training in Neuroscience. From 2008 to 2010 she studied a Neuroscience Master's Degree in Universidade da Coruña and she continued with a PhD program in NEUROcom. During her predoctoral phase (with an FPI contract), she was part of different investigation projects about Parkinson Disease, fatigue, march and virtual reality using record techniques such as electromiography or transcranial magnetic stimulation.

In 2015 she obtained her International PhD with an Extraordinary End of PhD Prize in 2016 thanks to her work titled "Virtual Reality: a validated and effective tool to evaluate and treat finger movement impairments in Parkinson's Disease" coordinated by the PhD Pablo Arias and Dr. Javier Cudeiro. Currently she is part of NEUROcom and she is a teacher in Physiotherapy Faculty and in different Master's Degrees. She collaborated with Health Sciences Faculty of Southampton University in projects about the functionality of superior members after an ictus (fatigue, functional electrical stimulation, dual task, tDCS, etc.).

Scientific interest

Currently her scientific interest is double. On one hand, the study of the physiological mechanisms underlying the movement with and without pathology, and on the other hand, to develop or optimize physiotherapeutic strategies which improve the movement control in people with neurological diseases. She started a line of investigation in childhood; studying the movement control during the development and its facilitation when alterations exist. Moreover, her interest in the context of children diversity becomes evident while she coordinates a voluntary physiotherapy program in a special education school, and also in different actions which promote the inclusion of children with multiple diversities. She is part of the Board of Sociedad Española de Fisioterapia en Pediatría and member of European Academy of Childhood Disability. She is the main investigator of DISEMINAR project, funded by Xunta de Galicia and Cooperación Galega, a program which consists of address the issue of childhood disabilities in Nicaragua, working from a multidimentional perspective and with the collaboration of investigators within education, social and health fields.