A voice communicating the science of the mind and mental health
Rosa Molina is a psychiatrist, holds a PhD in Psychiatry from the Complutense University of Madrid, and is an associate professor at the same university. She works as a psychiatrist within Madrid’s public healthcare system, where she runs a specialist clinic focused on psychogeriatrics. Her professional activity combines patient care with teaching, research, and medical science communication.
Her work is grounded in an integrative approach to mental health, focusing on the interaction between the biological, psychological, and social factors that influence our wellbeing. Both in her clinical practice and in her communication work, she addresses issues related to the functioning of the brain and mind, emotions, behaviour, and the relationship between mental and physical health.
Molina also maintains an active international training profile and a career closely linked to research and teaching. Her interest in understanding the complexity of the human mind and behaviour is also reflected in her science communication work, through which she seeks to bring scientific knowledge about mental health to non-specialist audiences, contribute to a better understanding of mental illness, and help reduce the stigma that still surrounds it.
Professional career and science communication
Molina studied Medicine and completed several international training placements before specialising in Psychiatry at Hospital Clínico San Carlos in Madrid. She subsequently obtained a PhD in Psychiatry from the Complutense University of Madrid, with a thesis focused on structural and functional neuroimaging in eating disorders, developed in collaboration with the University of Melbourne in Australia, where she also completed a training placement.
She currently works as a psychiatrist within Madrid’s public healthcare system and runs a specialist psychogeriatrics clinic. She combines her clinical work with teaching as an associate professor at the Complutense University of Madrid, while continuing her research activities and international training.
Her career as a medical science communicator gained particular momentum during the pandemic, when she began using social media as a tool to bring science and mental health closer to society. Through her social media profiles and the podcast De piel a cabeza, she explores topics related to the brain, emotions, behaviour, and mental health from an accessible and approachable perspective.
She is the author of the books Una mente con mucho cuerpo (2021) and Tus microtraumas (2023), published by Paidós, an imprint of Grupo Planeta. She has also been a regular contributor to RNE and RTVE, taking part in a range of radio and television programmes.
Her clinical, teaching, research, and science communication work seeks to bring scientific knowledge about mental health closer to society and promote a broader, more integrative understanding of wellbeing, grounded in scientific knowledge and in an appreciation of the complexity of the human mind and behaviour.
