I am a quantitative criminologist with research interests in communities and crime, comparative criminology, adolescent offending, and quantitative research methods. I have published on measurement error in crime data, model-based estimation of crime in small areas, spare time and crime, cybercrime, and international comparisons of crime data quality. I am currently a Senior Lecturer in Quantitative Criminology and Research Director at the Department of Criminology of the University of Manchester, and I serve as Director at CrimRxiv.
I have collaborated with national statistical offices, government departments, law enforcement agencies, and research centres in the UK and internationally, including the Home Office, the Ministry of Justice, and the Office for National Statistics.
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I’m originally from Barcelona, Catalonia (Spain). I received a BA in Criminology from the Autonomous University of Barcelona and an MA in Crime Analysis and Prevention from Miguel Hernández University of Elche. I obtained my PhD in Criminology at the University of Manchester in 2019 with a thesis focusing on the application of small area estimation techniques to measure crime under-reporting, fear of crime, and disorder at small geographic levels. My doctoral work was funded by the UoM Presidential Doctoral Scholar Award and recognised with the 2021 Early Career Researcher Award from the Office for National Statistics.
Previously, I held research and teaching roles at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Miguel Hernández University, and the Schools of Law and Social Sciences at the University of Manchester. Between 2019 and 2021, I was a Research Fellow in Cybercrime within the Digital Trust and Security theme at the University of Manchester.
My research has been published in leading criminology journals, including the Journal of Quantitative Criminology, British Journal of Criminology, Journal of Experimental Criminology, Computers in Human Behavior, Crime Science, and the International Review of Victimology. I have received research awards from the Office for National Statistics, the Spanish Ministry of Education, the Spanish Society of Criminological Research, the Society of Chief Police Officers of Alicante (AJPLA), and Miguel Hernández University.
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