Nerea Muñoz Borrachero is a Ph.D. candidate in English Linguistics at Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM). 

She graduated with a Bachelor's degree in English Studies from UCM in 2013, and moved to the United States to pursue a career as an Early Childhood Educator where she had the opportunity to work with children on the autism spectrum.

In 2024 she obtained a Master's degree in English Linguistics: New Applications and International Communication from the UCM. 

She is currently working on her doctoral thesis under the supervision of Dr. Gitte Kristiansen. 

Greatly inspired by her professional experience in the United States, she decided to explore the language within the emerging but still limited body of research investigating the convergence of autism and synesthesia. 

She approaches this topic from the perspective of cognitive linguistics, still a novel angle within this broader field of investigation. Her research, titled Blending Senses: A Conceptual Integration Theory (CIT) Analysis of Sensory Experiences in Autism Spectrum and Synesthesia, is situated within the Cognitive Linguistics framework and departs from constructivism, enactive embodiment, and CIT. 

Her research aims to deepen the understanding of unique sensory experiences in autism and synesthesia, offering new insights into how perception shapes language.