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Dr. María Jesús Martín López

Maria Jesus Martin Lopez has a Ph.D. in Psychology and is a Researcher at the Social Psychology and Methodology Department of Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. She has obtained the following awards: 2^nd Award of the 8^th Edition of Research Awards of the Economic and Social Council of Madrid Community (2006); 1^st Award “Virgilio Palacio” (2004); 2^nd National Award of Educative Research (Modality: Ph.D. thesis), from the Education and Science Ministry (2003). She is author of national and international publications about risk behavior, juvenile violence and organ donation. She is author of “Juvenile extra-group violence” (2005) and co-author of “Risk behaviors: violence, sexual risk behavior and illegal drug consumption among the youth” (1998), along with others.