Undergrad thesis co-directed
2011 Thesis Co-Advisor: Acute effect of cocaine on the electrical neuronal activity in the prefrontal cortex of anesthesiated rats. Student: Melany de la Fuente. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
2013 Thesis Co-Advisor: Illusionism, neuroscience, and education: Practical guide for the teaching of biological topics in the elementary school. Student: Ana Carina and Mauricio Bueno. Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educación.
2014 Thesis Co-Advisor: Neuroscience tools: Skinner box based on Arduino board microcontroller. Victor Azocar. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.

Research and mentoring
Dr. Marcelo Aguilar-Rivera has been working to implement telemetric recordings of diverse biological signals from interacting rats. He has also been developing wearable devices to monitor physiological parameters in babies, a medical device for the monitoring of medication adherence; and a full integrated wireless system for the amplification of differents bio-potentials. He is a linchpin in the collaboration between Dr. Chiba's lab at cognitive science and Dr. Coleman's lab at Bioengineering. The main goal associated with this collaboration is the development of new tools to understand the relation between body and brain, and how this axis underlaying emotions. Dr. Aguilar-Rivera has played a key role to obtain the necessary financial support to accomplish the main goals associated with his team research. In addition, he has been working to develop behavioral setups (hardware and software) for the study of self-awareness and self-other distinction, by interrogating the interoceptive system of behaving rats during the expression of pro-social behaviors. Currently, he is mentoring a diverse group of undergrad and graduate students from different disciplines and universities considering his international collaboration with Brazil and Chile.

Outreach
2006 Curicó. Chile. Explora-Conicyt. Program “1000 aulas, 1000 cientificos”. Presentation for High School students: “Myth and realities about the brain”
2006 Santiago. Chile. CENI. Universidad de Chile. Scientific advisor for an educational software development “Virtual Laboratories for High School Students”
2007 Los Andes. Chile. Presentation for High School students: “Test of place preference like a study model of drugs addiction”
2007- 2008 Santiago. Chile. Interactive Museum Mirador. Scientific advisor for the interactive display renewal “Mind and Brain”.
2009 Santiago. Chile. Presentation for high school students in the International Workshop of Motivated behavior, stress and addiction: from molecules to behavior.
2012 Tarapaca. Chile. Explora-CONICYT. Presentation for high school students at VIII Regional School Congress of Sciences and Technology.
2012 Santiago. Chile. Explora-CONICYT. Scientific advisor for “What do you have in your mind?, Sciences in the subway of Santiago
2012 Santiago. Chile. Explora-CONICYT. Presentation for high school students at XVIII National Week of Sciences and Technology.
2013 Santiago. Chile. Explora-CONICYT. Editor of the Book Activities in Neuroscience. XVIII National Week of Sciences and Technology “What do you have in your mind?

Filed patents
2014 Solicitud # 3596-14. Manipulador multifuncional para sostener un arreglo de electrodes que miden la actividad neuroelectrica en animales, que permite el montaje del arreglo o de electtrodos estandares o de arreglo de electrodos desarrolados a medida, comprende un bastidor con una parte superior de un soporte conector amplificador para sostener en su interior un conector de amplificador.