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News in brief Arrivals Academics Dr Vanessa Berenguer-Rico Tutorial Fellow in Economics Vanessa Berenguer-Rico is an Associate Professor at the Department of Economics. She holds a PhD in Economics from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and a BA and Diploma of Advanced Studies in Economics from Universitat de Barcelona. Before joining Mansfield she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Nuffield College for three years. Her research interests are econometrics, time series analysis and applied macroeconomics.
Dr Andrew Higgins Tutorial Fellow in Law Andrew Higgins is the Associate Professor in Civil Procedure at the Law Faculty. He has taught civil procedure on Oxford’s BCL/ MJur course since 2008 and has also taught contract and tort for University College and New College respectively. From 2015 Andrew will take on the General Editorship of Civil Justice Quarterly. Andrew completed a DPhil at Oxford on legal professional privilege in 2011, and published a book, Legal Professional Privilege for Corporations: A Guide to Four Major Common Law Jurisdictions, with Oxford University Press in 2014. He has been a visiting scholar with NYU’s Hauser Global Law School Program and an occasional guest lecturer in civil procedure at Melbourne Law School. Andrew has also been a practising barrister at the Victorian Bar since 2011. His main area of practice is mass tort litigation and he has worked on asbestos, thalidomide and tobacco litigation, among others. He received awards for his work exposing British American Tobacco’s ‘document retention policies’ in McCabe v
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British American Tobacco, including from a coalition of public health NGOs. Andrew’s main research interests are civil procedure, tort and causation.
Dr Matti Vihola Tutorial Fellow in Statistics Matti Vihola, University Lecturer in Statistics, received his PhD in Mathematics from the University of Jyväskylä, Finland in 2010, where he continued as a Postdoctoral Researcher until joining Oxford in August 2014. His main research interests are in computational statistics and applied probability. Particular interests include general state-space Markov chains, and development and analysis of various algorithms such as Markov chain Monte Carlo, sequential Monte Carlo and stochastic approximation (stochastic gradient) methods.