Emilio Ayos is a Professor at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) and a Researcher at Argentina’s National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET). He serves as Alternate Director of the Gino Germani Research Institute (UBA), where he leads the Comparative Research Program and participates in the Security Observatory. His research specializes in the intersections between crime control and social policy, examining the discursive construction of insecurity as a public issue, youth studies, violence, inequality and the development of preventive policies. He has taught in graduate programs on security and social policy and is the author of the book Crime and Poverty: Intersections Between Social Policy and Criminal Justice (Delito y Pobreza: espacios de intersección entre los campos de la política social y la política criminal).
His work has been published in peer-reviewed journals in his field, both nationally and internationally. He is involved in several international research projects, including A New Measure of Socioeconomic Inequalities for International Comparison (INCASI2 – Horizon Europe) and The Orders and Borders of Global Inequality: Migration and Mobilities in Late Capitalism (MIGMOBS – European Research Council). Additionally, he is part of the International Advisory Board (IAB) for the Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre (University of Leeds and University of York, UK).
Correo electrónico: emilio.ayos@gmail.com