I am originally from Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico, but I moved to Tucson, Arizona when I was very young. Here, I earned my bachelor’s degree in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science from the University of Arizona in 2018. My undergraduate research focused mainly on how our memory representations change the way we perceive objects. After graduating from the University of Arizona, I continued working to further our knowledge of the interactions between memory and visual systems and I joined the MRI research lab, where I mainly worked in a project that evaluated newly-developed, super-resolution, and motion-insensitive MRI protocols. My interests are broad and diverse, and I have had the opportunity to be involved in many different topics of research. However, I am mainly interested in exploring how functional connectivity, particularly of cognitive control networks, can predict behavior, and how these networks break down during aging and disease. In my future research, I also hope to investigate how this relationship is affected in psychopathologies like depression and schizophrenia.