Dr. Catalina Zavala has been an independent research consultant since 2021, drawing on professional experience as an educator, researcher, and collaborator to provide each client with a customized experience.
Catalina is a quantitative researcher with over ten years of experience. After earning a doctorate in developmental psychology, Dr. Zavala joined interdisciplinary research teams at the Karolinska Institutet and the University of Southern California as a postdoctoral scholar and researcher. Dr. Zavala has worked alongside clinicians, sociologists, epidemiologists, and other experts investigating factors contributing to individual differences in health, aging, and lifespan development. As calculated by ResearchGate, Catalina’s publications have more than 190 citations and over 1,500 reads.