Experience

  1. Associate Professor of Biostatistics

    University of Granada

    Department of Statistics and Operations Research, University of Granada, Granada, Spain.

    • Teaching Biostatistics/Statistics in Medicine, Faculty of Medicine
    • Coordinator of Statistics in Health Sciences degree
  2. Honorary Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology

    London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
    Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, Department of Medical Statistics and Non-Communicable Disease Epidemiology. Teaching advanced statistical methods in epidemiology and supervising MSc and PhD students.
  3. Senior Scientific Researcher (Miguel Servet I)

    Andalusian School of Public Health / University of Granada
    Senior Scientific Researcher in Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Biomedical Research Institute of Granada. Funded by the Miguel Servet I investigation award from the Spanish National Institute of Health, Carlos III.
  4. Postdoctoral Research Fellow

    Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
    Department of Epidemiology, Boston, MA, USA. Specialised in epidemiological methods, causal inference, and perinatal epidemiology. Rose Travelling Fellowship recipient.
  5. Postdoctoral Research Fellow

    University of Cape Town
    Center for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Research (CIDER), Department of Infectious Diseases Research and Epidemiology, Cape Town, South Africa.
  6. Field Epidemiologist

    GOARN (WHO/PAHO)
    Field epidemiologist during the cholera epidemic in Haiti, Grande Ansee (Jérémie).
  7. Epidemiologist, Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS)

    National Institute of Health, Carlos III
    National Center of Epidemiology, Madrid, Spain. Field epidemiologist with missions to DRC, Chad, and Zimbabwe. In 2009 detached to Epicentre-MSF, Brussels, Belgium.
  8. Field Humanitarian Relief Health Worker

    Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)
    Field missions in Central African Republic (CAR) and Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

Education

  1. PhD Epidemiology & Public Health

    University of Granada & Université Libre de Bruxelles
    Awarded Summa Cum Laude. Joint PhD programme between the University of Granada (Spain) and the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium), focusing on epidemiological methods and population health.
  2. MSc Mathematical Medical Statistics (Biostatistics)

    University of Newcastle, Australia
    Advanced biostatistics training through the Biostatistics Collaboration of Australia (BCA).
  3. MSc Epidemiology & Biostatistics

    Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
    Specialisation in epidemiological methods and biostatistics.
  4. MPH Public Health & Health Management

    University of Granada, Spain
  5. BSc (Hons) Mathematics

    Open University, London, UK
Skills & Hobbies
Statistical Computing
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Stata

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Python

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Research Methods
Causal Inference

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Biostatistics

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Machine Learning

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Awards
Miguel Servet I Investigator Award
Spanish National Institute of Health, Carlos III ∙ January 2017
Prestigious national investigator award in Spain, funding independent research in Epidemiology and Biostatistics.
Graduated Statistician (GStat)
Royal Statistical Society, UK ∙ January 2016
Professional accreditation as a Graduated Statistician by the British Royal Society of Statistics, recognising expertise in statistical practice.
Bronze Medal – Best Original Research
Hong Kong Academy of Medicine ∙ January 2020
Bronze Medal Winner of the Prize for Best Original Research for the article “Prediction model for short-term mortality after palliative radiotherapy for patients having advanced cancer: a cohort study from routine electronic medical data.”
Rose Travelling Fellowship
Harvard School of Public Health ∙ January 2013
Competitive fellowship awarded by the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
Best PhD Dissertation in Health Sciences
University of Granada ∙ January 2010
Awarded for best PhD dissertation in the field of Health Sciences during 2010. PhD was awarded Summa Cum Laude.
Languages
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Spanish
95%
English
75%
French