Dr. Laia Miquel obtained her Bachelor’s Degree in Medicine from the Autonomous University of Barcelona in 2004 and finished her specialization in Psychiatry in 2009. She earned her Doctorate in Medicine cum laude in March 2018. She worked as a psychiatrist in the field of Addiction at Vall d'Hebron Hospital (2009-2013). Then she worked as a researcher in the Addiction Unit at Hospital Clínic of Barcelona in the field of addiction (2013-2017). Since then, she has worked as a psychiatrist in the Addiction Unit at Hospital Clínic of Barcelona and is now the coordinator of the CAS Clínic. She is also an IDIBAPS researcher. She developed two programs for the treatment of psychological traumatic experiences in substance use disorder patients and a program for the treatment of chemsex users. She treats all types of substance use disorders. She has experience in Motivational interviewing (MI) and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR). She has published 50 articles in Impact Factor journals, with 626 citations. Currently, she is the Principal Investigator (PI) of a Health Research Project (PI20/0506) extended until July 2025, where she investigates the treatment of psychological trauma in patients with substance use disorders; and PI of the e-health work package of the Primary Care Addiction Research Network (RICORS). In the context of RIAPAd, she is currently collaborating on several ongoing projects with other researchers in the network (PI23/00731, cohrta study, 2022I058) and has applied for new projects in collaboration with PND. Recently, she is studying the role of the cerebellum in the neurobiological paths of addiction. She has found cerebellum alterations in chronic cannabis users and alcohol dependent patients. Furthermore, she is now studying several safe and non-invasive treatment approaches based on neurobiological pathways (t-DCS and Transcranial magnetic stimulation) in order to improve substance use disorder prognosis.

She has contributed to the drafting of several clinical treatment guidelines for alcohol and dual pathology. She is the president of the Catalan Delegation of Socidrogalcohol and a member of the Women and Mental Health Research Working Group (GTRDSM) of the Catalan Society of Psychiatry.e Catalan Society of Psychiatry.