Maria is a PhD candidate in the Department of Population Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). Her research uses statistical and demographic methods to bring clarity to human rights violations in situations where data are messy, incomplete, or missing altogether. Her dissertation project—"Guerra de cifras" and cifras de guerra: Essays on data quality and conflict mortality in Latin America—uses quantitative methods to examine homicide mortality while addressing data quality issues prevalent in conflict settings. This project also incorporates a sociology of statistics component that critically engages with the production of mortality statistics in conflict settings. In addition to her academic work, Maria moonlights as a statistician with the Human Rights Data Analysis Group. She also serves on the American Statistical Association’s Committee on Scientific Freedom and Human Rights.
She holds an MPhil in Sociology & Demography from the University of Oxford (Nuffield College) where she was a Clarendon Scholar and a B.S. in Statistics & Data Science and Spanish from Yale University. She also completed the European Doctoral School of Demography hosted jointly between the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) and the Institut national d'études démographiques (Ined).
Maria Gargiulo
Maria is a PhD candidate in the Department of Population Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). Her research uses statistical and demographic methods to bring clarity to human rights violations in situations where data are messy, incomplete, or missing altogether. Her dissertation project—"Guerra de cifras" and cifras de guerra: Essays on data quality and conflict mortality in Latin America—uses quantitative methods to examine homicide mortality while addressing data quality issues prevalent in conflict settings. This project also incorporates a sociology of statistics component that critically engages with the production of mortality statistics in conflict settings. In addition to her academic work, Maria moonlights as a statistician with the Human Rights Data Analysis Group. She also serves on the American Statistical Association’s Committee on Scientific Freedom and Human Rights.
She holds an MPhil in Sociology & Demography from the University of Oxford (Nuffield College) where she was a Clarendon Scholar and a B.S. in Statistics & Data Science and Spanish from Yale University. She also completed the European Doctoral School of Demography hosted jointly between the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) and the Institut national d'études démographiques (Ined).