Prof. Antoni Rodríguez-Fornells is one of the IMERA residents affiliated with ILCB this academic year. Prof. Rodríguez-Fornells is visiting from Barcelona, where he is an ICREA Research Professor in Social & Behavioural Sciences. He obtained his PhD from the University of Barcelona (UB) in 1996. He then worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Magdeburg in Germany from 1999 to 2002, focusing on cognitive control (error monitoring) and bilingualism. In 2002, Antoni was awarded a “Ramón y Cajal” research position, and later joined ICREA as a Research Professor. Since then, he has established an interdisciplinary research group, the Cognition and Brain Plasticity Unit (CBPU), at ICREA-IDIBELL-UB. The unit is dedicated to studying learning mechanisms and brain plasticity effects in both healthy individuals and brain-damaged patients, with a core interest on the cognitive neuroscience of language learning and cognitive control. Located at the Hospital of Bellvitge – IDIBELL biomedical institute, this group emphasises translational research. Its work is inherently interdisciplinary, integrating expertise in brain plasticity, brain development, and learning and motivation mechanisms.