David Buil-Gil is a quantitative criminologist whose research interests lie in the fields of communities and crime, comparative criminology, adolescent offending, and quantitative research methods. He has published on measurement error in crime data, model-based estimation of crime in small areas, spare time and crime, cybercrime, and international comparisons of crime data quality. He is currently a Senior Lecturer in Quantitative Criminology and Open Research Lead at the Department of Criminology, University of Manchester, and Director at CrimRxiv.

David has collaborated with national statistical offices, government departments, law enforcement agencies, and research centres in the UK and internationally, including the Home Office, the Ministry of Justice, and the Office for National Statistics.

David Buil-Gil is originally from Barcelona, Catalonia (Spain). He received a BA in Criminology from the Autonomous University of Barcelona and a MA in Crime Analysis and Prevention from Miguel Hernández University of Elche. He obtained his PhD in Criminology at the University of Manchester in 2019 with a thesis focusing on the application of small area estimation techniques to measure crime under-reporting, fear of crime and disorder at small geographic levels. His doctoral work was funded by the UoM Presidential Doctoral Scholar Award and recognised with the 2021 Early Career Researcher Award of the Office for National Statistics.

He has previously held research and teaching roles at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC),  Miguel Hernández University, and the Schools of Law and Social Sciences at the University of Manchester. Between 2019 and 2021, he was a Research Fellow in Cybercrime in the Digital Trust and Security theme of the University of Manchester.

David’s research has been published in leading criminology journals, including the Journal of Quantitative Criminology, British Journal of Criminology, Journal of Experimental Criminology, Computers in Human Behavior, Crime Science, and International Review of Victimology. He has received research awards from the Office for National Statistics, Spanish Ministry of Education, the Spanish Society of Criminolo-gical Research, the Society of Chief Police Officers of Alicante (AJPLA), and Miguel Hernández University.