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Education, research experience, publications, awards, and languages.

Contact Information

Name Hernán Manrique
Professional Title Postdoctoral Researcher, Global Security Programme (University of Oxford)
Email hernan.manrique@pmb.ox.ac.uk

Professional Summary

Interdisciplinary researcher working at the intersection of GIS, machine learning, spatial data science and qualitative methods for the study of global security, extractive industries, illicit economies and environmental change

Experience

  • 2026 - present

    Oxford, UK

    Postdoctoral Researcher, Global Security Programme
    University of Oxford
    • Research project: ‘Contested Cross-border Spaces, Illicit Flows, and Order in the Contemporary World’ (funded by XCEPT)
    • Research project: ‘Illicit Flows and Security in Latin America and the Caribbean’ (funded by CAF – Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean)
  • 2021 - 2025

    Leuven, Belgium

    Full-time PhD Researcher
    KU Leuven
    • Research project: ‘Between Conservation and Extraction: Addressing socioecological dynamics of illicit economies and opportunities for rural development in Protected Areas of the Peruvian Amazon’ (funded by FWO)
  • 2023 - 2024

    Lima, Peru

    Main Researcher
    Interuniversity Social Science Council
    • Research project: ‘Minería ilegal y cultivo de coca en la zona de amortiguamiento de la Reserva Comunal El Sira: exploración de sus mecanismos de penetración y sus impactos en la pérdida de bosques’
  • 2021 - 2022

    Lima, Peru

    Main Researcher
    Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú & University of Reading
    • Research project: ‘La Empresa Nacional de la Coca (ENACO) y el fracaso del monopolio estatal de la hoja de coca en Perú: una mirada a los debates contemporáneos’
  • 2017 - 2018

    Lima, Peru

    Consultant Researcher
    Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)
    • Research project: ‘Subnational governments and Nationally Determined Contributions’
    • Research project: ‘Rights abuse allegations in the context of REDD+ readiness and implementation’
  • 2017 - 2018

    Lima, Peru

    Assistant Researcher (to Dr. Cynthia Sanborn)
    Universidad del Pacífico
    • Research on the implementation of Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC) and Chinese investments in mining in Latin America
  • 2017 - 2018

    Lima, Peru

    Main Researcher
    Interuniversity Social Science Council
    • Research project: ‘Derrames de petróleo y afectación a la salud materno infantil en pueblos indígenas de la Amazonía peruana: un análisis exploratorio desde los determinantes de la salud’
  • 2015 - 2016

    Lima, Peru

    Assistant Researcher (to Dr. Maritza Paredes)
    Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú

Education

  • 2021 - 2025

    Leuven, Belgium

    PhD
    KU Leuven
    Ecology, Evolution and Biodiversity Conservation (Department of Biology)
  • 2020 - 2025

    Leuven, Belgium

    MSc
    KU Leuven
    Statistics and Data Science
    • Cum laude
  • 2018 - 2020

    Leuven, Belgium

    MSc
    KU Leuven
    Sustainable Development
    • Magna cum laude
  • 2010 - 2015

    Lima, Peru

    Bachelor / Licenciate
    Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP)
    Sociology
    • With honors

Grants, scholarships & awards

  • 2026
    FWO Fundamental Postdoctoral Research Grant
    Research Foundation Flanders, Belgium
  • 2025
    MapBiomas Research Competition – Second Place
    MapBiomas Peru
  • 2023
    FWO Fundamental PhD Research Grant (Renewal)
    Research Foundation Flanders, Belgium
  • 2023
    Short Research Project Grant
    CIES, Lima, Peru
  • 2021
    FWO Fundamental PhD Research Grant
    Research Foundation Flanders, Belgium
  • 2021
    Distinction for Academic Publications
    Universidad del Pacífico, Lima, Peru
  • 2020
    M&S Summer School Grant
    KU Leuven, Belgium
  • 2019
    M&S Summer School Grant
    KU Leuven, Belgium
  • 2018
    VLIR-UOS Scholarship
    KU Leuven, Belgium
  • 2018
    Short Research Project Grant
    CIES, Lima, Peru
  • 2016
    Open Society Foundations Scholarship
    CIDE, Aguascalientes, Mexico
  • 2015
    PADET Research Grant
    Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, Lima, Peru

Certificates

  • Summer School: Learning from Geoenvironmental Data — Tools for a Changing Planet - Venice International University
  • Postgraduate course: Drug Policy, Health and Human Rights - CIDE, Mexico

Languages

Spanish : Native
English : Fluent
French : B2
Dutch : B2