Omar completed his BA in Psychology at the University of Granada (UGR). Next, he completed a MSc. in Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience at the University of Granada. He is currently working on his Ph.D. in experimental psychology on embodied cognition, at the University of Granada, under the supervision of Dr. Julio Santiago. Specifically, he works on how the perceptual and motor systems of the brain take part in the comprehension of language, 

Omar is located at the Mind, Brain, and Behaviour Research Centre (CIMCYC) in Granada. He has done a research stay at the Dynamique Du Langage (DDL) at the University Lumière Lyon II working on how people mentally represent objects depending on their experience with these objects in the real life.
 
Research interests:
 
-      Grounded cognition
-      Psycholinguistics
-      Cognitive linguistics
-      Affordance