Belén Jiménez Alonso

Belén Jiménez is a psychologist with a PhD in Psychology. She wrote her doctoral thesis on the construction of subjectivity in the history and epistemology of psychology. She also specializes in interventions in cases of grief, loss and trauma, and in psychosocial and spiritual care for people suffering from advanced illness.

In addition to her experience in university teaching and research in Spain and France, she has completed various research stays in centres abroad specializing in the history of science, including the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom and as a Marie-Curie postdoctoral researcher at the Cermes laboratory of the French National Centre for the Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris, France. After several years teaching and researching at the University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis, Jiménez now works as a clinical psychologist, lecturer and researcher in the field of grief and end of life.

She is currently a member of the teaching and research staff at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) and of the CareNet research group (at the UOC's IN3). Her main interests lie in how digital media "mediate" the grief and loss experience, and the use of new technologies in end-of-life situations.