Mavi Snchez-Vives uses VR to understand how the brain creates an internal representation of the world and of ourselves. Her laboratory combines immersive virtual environments with behavioral and physiological measures to investigate how the input from different sensory streams sculpts such representation – as well as how virtual environments can be used in medical and therapeutical applications. Mavi is ICREA Research Professor and head of the Systems Neuroscience group at the Institute of Biomedical Research Augusto Pi y Suñer in Barcelona. She is co-Director of the Event Lab (Experimental Virtual Environments in Neuroscience and Technology) and founder of Virtualbodyworks.com.