Bridging Research and Practice
(Burgos, Spain, 1988). I am a forensic psychologist and criminologist specializing in criminal investigation and investigative interviewing. I earned my PhD from Ontario Tech University (Canada), where I developed an analytical framework based on speech units and deterministic Large Language Models (LLMs). I applied it to examine communicative intent and topics in false and presumed true confessions. I co-founded the Barcelona Innocence Project and was a founding member of the European Innocence Network.
My research focuses on false confessions, wrongful convictions, and sex crimes. My academic and professional experience includes research collaborations with Dr. Taina Laajasalo in Helsinki and work with Knoops' Innocence Project in Amsterdam. I currently serve as a statistical analyst for the Wrongful Conviction International Law Task Force.
My work is guided by a deep commitment to justice and ensuring psychological expertise enhances fair legal proceedings. I have contributed to forensic assessments, investigative interviewing, and behavioral analysis, applying research to real-world cases. This work has taken me across different legal systems, giving me insight into diverse criminal justice practices.
Through my research and public advocacy, I aim to bridge the gap between psychology and the law. I focus on promoting evidence-based practices that prevent wrongful convictions and enhance investigative procedures. My goal is to contribute meaningfully to a more just and fair criminal justice system worldwide.
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For my research I am building a pipeline of Large Language Models that can codify police interviews at three different levels: continent (e.g., communicative intent) and content (e.g., topic). This may sound tricky but the idea is to capture the dynamism between interviewer and interviewee in a most realistic manner.
As part of the research group led by the Dr. Nuria Sánchez, we have published our first results about wrongful convictions in Spain. This is the first time this research is done in the country and we were able to analyze all the revisions that resulted in an exoneration. As a result, we found that 88 innocent individuals spend time in prison for a crime they did not committed.
This project surges with the idea of increasing the opportunities for those students who live in countries that does not provide the same networking opportunities as other parts of the world. This project will allow to any student with a research idea to present it in front of the other researchers in the field of legal and forensic psychology.
In 2019, I was invited to a radio program called "Amb Josep Cuní" [with Josep Cuní] to comment on the show Unbelievable (Netflix, 2019). As someone who sees any opportunity to get research ideas or check whether evidence-based knowledge is properly convey on the media, I found the series very interesting. Spanish insteresting.