Fitxa persona

Antonio Manuel López Quílez graduated with a bachelor's degree and doctorate in Mathematics from the University of Valencia in 1989 and 1997, respectively. He is currently Full Professor in the Department of Statistics and Operations Research at the University of Valencia, where he teaches courses related to Spatial Statistics and Geographic Data Analysis in the Official Master's Degree in Biostatistics and the Bachelor's Degree in Data Science. 

His research activity is characterized by a combination of methodological developments and practical applications in the context of Bayesian statistics for spatial and spatiotemporal models. In this research work, he has collaborated in a wide range of scientific fields: epidemiology, agriculture, environment, geography, veterinary medicine, forestry, oceanography, and psychology. These collaborations have resulted in publications in different areas, multidisciplinary projects, contracts with companies and official bodies, specialized training courses, and consulting work.

He has published more than 250 articles, half of them in indexed journals, most of which have a high impact factor. The results of his research have also been presented in more than 380 communications at scientific conferences, most of them international. The dissemination of the results has always been twofold, presenting methodological advances at statistical meetings and applications at meetings in other scientific areas. He has also supervised 18 doctoral theses.

He has participated in more than 100 research transfer projects and contracts, in more than 30 as principal investigator. His career highlights include numerous collaborations with companies and public institutions, resulting in agreements and technology transfer contracts, developing Geographic Information Systems, database query and exploitation applications, and decision-making support tools.