Ph.D. candidate
I’m a researcher interested in the aporophobic criminal system, terrorism, and the status of the freedom of expression in relation with the criminal law. I’m currently based at the Criminal Law Area of the University of Salamanca (Spain).
To know more about me, please don’t hesitate to contact me.
Mail: wendy.pena.g@usal.es
I have an interdisciplinary background that has become a great starting point to develop my research career. I hold B.A. degrees in Law and in Political Science, and a master’s degree in Criminal law.
Since 2019 I am a Ph.D. Candidate in Rule of law and Global governance. In 2020, I started to work as an intern (Ph.D. contract FPU) at the University of Salamanca, lecturing and researching. I have also been working as an intern at the Spanish Constitutional Court, what has given me a complex perspective regarding criminal law.
I am a member of the Project Aporophobic and Criminal Law (funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation). Also, I am member of the Research Program 70593 International Law Responses to Transnational Corruption (funded by the Colombian Ministry of Science).
2019-current | Ph.D. Researcher (FPU Ph.D. Contract)
Universidad de Salamanca
2017-2018 | Official Master’s Degree Criminal law
Universidad de Salamanca
2012 – 2017 | B.A. Political Science and Public Administration
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
2012 – 2017 | B.A. Law
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Research stay: Sapienza Università di Roma – 3 months, 2021.
Funding: Ministry of Universities
2021/22 Lecturer in the Faculty of Law, University of Salamanca
2020/21 Lecturer in the Faculty of Law, University of Salamanca
Member of the Project Aporophobic and Criminal Law. Funding: Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation.
Member of the Research Program 70593 International Law Responses to Transnational Corruption. Funding: Colombian Ministry of Science.
Member of the Network Iberoamerican Perspectives of Justice. Funding: Iberoamerican Institute of the Hague.