Eric García-López

Eric García-López is a full-time researcher in Behavioral Neuroscience at the National Institute of Criminal Science, and a National researcher for the National System of Researchers (SNII-2, CONAHCYT), both in Mexico. He earned

a dual PhD in Legal and Forensic Psychology and Neuroscience from the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain. He completed his post-doctoral studies in the area of Evolution and Human Cognition at the Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Physics and Complex Systems at the University of the Balearic Islands, Spain. Both his doctoral and post-doctoral research were funded by the NationalCouncil of Humanities, Sciences, and Technologies, in Mexico (CONAHCYT). Dr. García-López’s previous academic appointments include Visiting Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law and researcher at the Faculty of Law (Project Law and Neuroscience) at the University of Castilla-La Mancha in Toledo, Spain. He has also been a Full Researcher at the National Institute of Criminal Science (INACIPE) and Professor of Victimology at the Faculty of Medicine at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).

 

Dr. García-López has authored and edited 20 books, including: “Fundamentos de Psicología Jurídica y Forense”; “Psicopatología Forense. Comportamiento Humano y Tribunales de Justicia”, “Derecho Penal y Neurociencia”, among others. He is also a member of several Journal editorial committees, including the Anuario de Psicología Jurídica (Spain). He holds membership in a number of international associations, including Sociedad Española contra la Violencia, the Asociación Iberoamericana de Justicia Terapéutica, the Mental Health, Law and Policy Institute (Simon Fraser University, Canada), the International Association of Forensic Mental Health Services, the Fundación de Neurociencia y Derecho, and the Asociación Colombiana de Criminología. He was a senior consultant for UNESCO to draw up the current status of Neurorights in Mexico.