Marina Peniza Soriano

PhD in Psychology. Blanquerna – Universitat Ramon Llull, Barcelona. Predoctoral fellowship in Neuroscience from the Fundación Tatiana (2024 call).

Master’s degree in Neuropsychology: Neuropsychological Diagnosis and Rehabilitation. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

Master’s degree in General Health Psychology (Máster Universitario en Psicología General Sanitaria). Blanquerna – Universitat Ramon Llull, Barcelona. Highest distinction for the master’s thesis and a Santander scholarship for academic excellence.

Bachelor’s degree in Psychology. Blanquerna – Universitat Ramon Llull, Barcelona. Highest distinction for the final-year project.

Predoctoral researcher at the Research Unit of Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Déu (Sant Boi de Llobregat), MERITT group. Clinical interviews and neuropsychological testing with people with schizophrenia, and coordination of the assessments of the AVATAR-VR project, a virtual-reality therapy for treatment-resistant auditory hallucinations; since 2025, coordination of the study in Spain.

Placement for the Master’s in Neuropsychology at the Neurology Department of the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona: full neuropsychological examination, differential diagnosis and prognosis.

Psicóloga General Sanitaria in private practice at Instituto PSICO, Psicología y Desarrollo (Mataró): psychological assessment, therapy for emotional and behavioural difficulties, and guidance for parents and families.

Research assistant at the Research Unit of Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Déu.

Placement for the Master’s in General Health Psychology at the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Day Hospital of the Hospital Universitario Sagrado Corazón (Quirónsalud), Barcelona: assessment, individual and group therapy, and psychoeducation.

Undergraduate placement at the Catalan Association for Traumatic Brain Injury and Acquired Brain Injury, Barcelona: neuropsychological assessment and follow-up, rehabilitation workshops and cognitive stimulation.

Summer course «Marcos filosóficos para la neurociencia del siglo XXI» (philosophical frameworks for 21st-century neuroscience). Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo, Santander. Fundación Tatiana scholarship.

Summer course «El cerebro humano y de los demás animales: similitudes y diferencias» (the human and animal brain). Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo, Santander. Fundación Tatiana scholarship.

Workshop on virtual reality in neurorehabilitation: foundations and clinical practice. Sociedad Valenciana de Neuropsicología.

Training in AVATAR-VR therapy for treatment-resistant auditory hallucinations in schizophrenia. Heka VR, CORE and Virtu Research Group, Copenhagen.

Workshop on working with self-harm, suicide attempts and crisis management. Col·legi Oficial de Psicologia de Catalunya.

Course on emotional eating: definition and treatment. Col·legi Oficial de Psicologia de Catalunya.

Workshop on suicide prevention: risk assessment and treatment plan. Col·legi Oficial de Psicologia de Catalunya.

Workshop on cognitive-behavioural intervention in schizophrenia. Blanquerna – Universitat Ramon Llull and Universidade Católica Portuguesa.

Associate lecturer at the Societat Catalana de Psiquiatria i Salut Mental (Acadèmia de Ciències Mèdiques i de la Salut de Catalunya i de Balears).

Workshop on AVATAR-VR therapy for auditory hallucinations at the conference on early-onset psychosis in childhood and adolescence. Sant Joan de Déu, Barcelona.

Associate lecturer at the Blanquerna Faculty of Psychology, Education and Sport Sciences – Universitat Ramon Llull.

Works on the European projects VR-based Avatar Therapy (EIT Health) and PERMEPSY (Instituto de Salud Carlos III and European Commission), and on other MERITT studies on psychosis. Member of the Early Career Hallucinations Research Group (International Consortium on Hallucination Research) and of the COMSAL research group (Universitat Ramon Llull).

Finalist for the Beca TIC en Salut Mental (Fundació Barbosa & Petit and Fundació TIC Salut Social) for her doctoral project on AVATAR-VR therapy.

«Antonio Colodrón» Award for the Best Oral Presentation at the 7th Symposium on Psychosomatics and Psychiatry (Acadèmia de Ciències Mèdiques i de la Salut de Catalunya i de Balears).

Requejo, C., Naides, N., Lamarca, M., Peniza-Soriano, M. y Ochoa, S. (2026). Efficacy of metacognitive therapies in first-episode psychosis: a systematic review. Neuropsychiatrie.

Díaz-Cutraro, L., Verdaguer-Rodríguez, M., Ferrer-Quintero, M. et al., Peniza-Soriano, M. y Ochoa, S. (2026). The Assessment of Metacognition in Psychosis: Systematic Review and Future Lines of Research. Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, 33(1), e70223.

Peniza-Soriano, M., Díaz-Cutraro, L., Birulés, I., Cardona, S., Jané, C., Peláez, T. y Ochoa, S. (2024). Proyecto VR-Avatar para el tratamiento de alucinaciones en personas con esquizofrenia: impacto en cognición, cognición social y metacognición. Psicosomática y Psiquiatría, 31.

Chen, L., Espinosa, V., Gutiérrez-Zotes, A. et al., Peniza-Soriano, M., Comas, J. O. y Ochoa, S. (2024). Eficacia del Entrenamiento Metacognitivo en madres con psicosis y sus hijos/as adolescentes: protocolo de un estudio multicéntrico. Psicosomática y Psiquiatría, 31.

Comas, J. O., Verdaguer-Rodríguez, M., López-Carriero, R. et al., Peniza-Soriano, M. y Ochoa, S. (2024). Diferencias de sexo en la eficacia del Entrenamiento Metacognitivo (EMC) en variables neurocognitivas en primeros episodios psicóticos. Psicosomática y Psiquiatría, 31.