Fellow 2026-2027 Rolando Gonzales Martinez
Rolando Gonzales Martinez is a researcher at the University of Oxford and a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Faculty of Spatial Sciences at the University of Groningen, where he applies machine learning and deep learning to survey data combined with satellite images. He holds a PhD from the University of Agder (Norway) and an MSc in Applied Statistics from the University of Alcalá (Spain).
His dissertation was framed around Feyerabend's anarchist theory of knowledge and discussed the differences between theory-driven and data-driven science, with applications to nanofinance groups in Africa. Previously, he was a postdoctoral data scientist at CASUS (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Germany), a postdoctoral researcher at the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI) of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a postdoctoral consultant for the University of Groningen, the Centre for Demographic Studies of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, the University of Amsterdam, the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), AjoCard (digital finance in Africa), and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI, University of Oxford).
The research interests of Dr. Gonzales Martinez include sustainable socio-economic development, early detection of cancer with artificial intelligence (AI), biologically inspired artificial intelligence, machine learning and deep learning, Bayesian methods, catastrophe modelling, social vulnerability to natural disasters, epistemology, spatial and spatio-temporal methods, and the role of AI in apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic studies.