Miguel Ángel Martínez Beneito is an Associate Professor in the Department of Statistics and Operations Research at the Faculty of Mathematics, University of Valencia. His research focuses on Bayesian statistics, spatial epidemiology, and disease mapping, with applications in public health and risk cluster detection. Education: PhD in Statistics from the University of Valencia (2005), thesis on statistical methods for detecting risk foci in epidemic outbreaks. His research interests include Bayesian modeling, spatial statistics, and computational epidemiology. He is a member of the Valencia Bayesian Research Group (VABAR), contributing to advanced statistical methodologies in health sciences. The recent publications attributed to him span topics in stochastic processes, biomechanics, and mathematical biology. However, there is a possibility of name disambiguation, as some works on biomechanics appear more aligned with a researcher from the University of Zaragoza. The core research at UV remains in statistical and epidemiological modeling. Scientific Contributions: Development of Bayesian methods for disease mapping. Application of statistical models to public health surveillance. Potential contributions to stochastic modeling in biological systems. He advises students in statistics and public health, though no specific advisees are listed. He has collaborated extensively with researchers in applied mathematics and biomechanics, though the nature of these collaborations requires further clarification due to potential name overlap. He is affiliated with the VABAR research group, focusing on Bayesian inference and its applications in real-world health problems.







