Born in Torroella de Montgrí (Girona), in 1955. Degree in Psychology from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, UAB (1977). University Teacher Training Fellow (FPU) of the Ministry of Education and Science, attached to the Medical Psychology Unit, Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, UAB (1980-1982). Founding member of the Catalan Society of Neuropsychology (1982). Clinical Neuropsychology position at the Neurology Service of the Hospital of the Sta. Creu i St. Pau, Section of Neuropsychology (1982). Doctorate degree in Psychology UAB (1983). Professor of Psychobiology, University of Barcelona, UB (1987). Full Professor of Psychobiology, profile Neuropsychology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (1994) and University of Barcelona (1997). Coordinator of the consolidated research group "Neuropsychology" by the Generalitat de Catalunya (1995). Leader of the Neuropsychology group, Neurosciences Area of ​​the August Pi i Sunyer Research Institute, IDIBAPS (1999). Director of the Department of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychobiology UB (2000-08 and 2015-16). Coordinator of the doctoral program in Neuropsychology, UB (1996), Coordinator of the Master's Degree in Clinical Neuropsychology (2003). Co-coordinator of the doctorate in neurosciences (2007). Distinction of the Generalitat of Catalonia as a recognized senior researcher (2004). Coordinator of the doctorate of Medicine (2012). Head of studies of the degree of Medicine, Campus Clínic, UB (2017). Researcher in 64 projects subsidized by public or private entities and principal investigator in 40 of them. Participation in four international projects.

Among others, she published in the journals: Archives of Neurology, Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, Annals of Neurology, Brain and Language, Biological Psychiatry, Cortex, Cerebral Cortex, Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, Frontiers in Psychology, Human Brain Mapping, J. of Cognitive Neuroscience; J. of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, J. of International Neuropsychological Society, J. of Neurotrauma, Movement Disorders, Neurobiology of Aging, Neuroimage, Neuroimage Clinical, Neurology, Neuropsychologia, Neuropsychology, Parkinsonism and Related Disorders, PlosOne, Scientific Reports.  Books published: Neuropsicología, Síntesis 1994; C. Junqué, M. A. Jurado: Envejecimiento y Demencias, Martínez Roca 1994; C. Junqué, O. Bruna, M. Mataró: Traumatismos craneoencefálicos. Un enfoque desde la neuropsicología y la Logopedia, Masson 1997; C. Junqué y J. Barroso. Manual de Neuropsicología, Síntesis 2009; C. Junqué, O. Bruna, M. Mataró. Neuropsicología del lenguaje: funcionamiento normal y patológico, Masson, 2004. O. Bruna, M Puyelo, C Junqué y A Ruano. Rehabilitación neuropsicológica, Elsevier Masson, 2011. In addition, she has more than 40 book chapters.

From the teaching point of view, she has taught several subjects of Neuropsychology in the degrees of Psychology and Medicine at UB, and subjects of Neuropsychology in doctorates, master's or postgraduate courses of the Autonomous University of Barcelona, ​​University of Barcelona, ​​University of Coruña, University of La Laguna, University of Murcia, Pontifical University of Salamanca, University of Valencia. At present, she is professor of Medical Psychology of Medicine Degree.

To date, he has directed 40 doctoral theses, 16 with European or International mention.