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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) |
| 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
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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)
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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 Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek)
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2023 - 2024 Lima, Peru
Principal Investigator
Universidad del Pacífico
- 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’ (funded by Interuniversity Social Science Council)
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2021 - 2022 Lima, Peru
Principal Investigator
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
- 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’ (funded by University of Reading)
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2017 - 2018 Indonesia
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’
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2017 - 2018 Lima, Peru
Researcher Assistant (Supervisor 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
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2017 - 2018 Lima, Peru
Lead Researcher
Universidad del Pacífico
- Research project: ‘Derrames de petróleo y afectación a la salud materno infantil en pueblos indígenas de la Amazonía peruana: un análisis exploratorio’ (funded by Interuniversity Social Science Council)
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2015 - 2016 Lima, Peru
Research Assistant (Supervisor Dr. Maritza Paredes)
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
- Research project: ‘Drugs, Security and Democracy (DSD) Program’ (funded by the Social Science Research Council)
Education
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2021 - 2025 Leuven, Belgium
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2020 - 2025 Leuven, Belgium
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2018 - 2020 Leuven, Belgium
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2010 - 2015 Lima, Peru
Bachelor / Licenciate
Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP)
Sociology
- With honors
Grants, scholarships & awards
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2025 MapBiomas Research Competition – Second Place
MapBiomas Peru
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2023 Short Research Project Grant
CIES, Lima, Peru
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2021 FWO Fundamental Research Grant
Flanders, Belgium
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2021 Distinction for Academic Publications
Universidad del Pacífico, Lima, Peru
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2020 M&S Summer School Grant
KU Leuven, Belgium
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2019 M&S Summer School Grant
KU Leuven, Belgium
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2018 VLIR-UOS Scholarship
KU Leuven, Belgium
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2018 Short Research Project Grant
CIES, Lima, Peru
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2016 Open Society Foundations Scholarship
CIDE, Aguascalientes, Mexico
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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