Samuel López-Rodríguez is a predoctoral researcher in the NEUROCAP Research Group and the Human Neuroscience Laboratory at Universidad Loyola Andalucía, Spain. He holds a research fellowship from the Spanish University Teacher Training Programme (FPU) and is currently developing his doctoral research in the field of clinical neuroscience and neurorehabilitation. His work focuses on electrophysiological biomarkers in disorders of consciousness, with particular emphasis on EEG, event-related potentials, auditory deviance processing, and the potential effects of auricular vagal neuromodulation therapy in patients with severe acquired brain injury.