Paula Cifuentes-Férez is currently a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Translation and Interpreting at the University of Murcia (Spain).  Her main research interests are within the area of Cognitive Linguistics applied to translation and the impact of emotions and personality (especially, self-esteem) in translation. She has written a book and many articles in prestigious international academic journals on these issues, and has spent research stays at renown institutions: Max Planck for Psycholinguistics (The Netherlands), Northwestern University (Illinois, EEUU), Institute of Cognitive Science (Louisiana, EEUU), and University of East Anglia (Norwich, UK).