Postdoctoral Associate - Alba hails from Galicia - Spain, where she did her PhD and undergraduate studies. Alba worked with José Castillo Sanchez at the Clinical Neurosciences Research Laboratory in the University of Santiago. There, she described the neuroprotective effects of a local vs systemic cooling of the blood following cerebral strokes. She joined the lab in January 2018 to work on the scale and mechanisms of long-range cortical plasticity.