Lecturer in Criminal Law and Criminology at the University of Malaga. During her career she has been recognized with the PhD Extraordinary Award  from Law Faculty of the University of Málaga and a Fullbright Scholarship to join the School of Criminal Justice of Rutgers University (New Jersey). She has been visiting researcher at the Institute of Criminology of Cambridge University (UK) and at the Faculty of Law of Queensland University (Australia). She has also been president of the Spanish Society of Criminological Research (SEIC). Currently, she is deputy director of the Interuniversity Andalusian Institute of Criminology (IAIC), member of the scientific committee of the International Society of Criminology (ISC), secretary of the Andalusian Society of Victimology (SAV) and member of the directive board of the European Society of Criminology (ESC). Her principal research interests are:

Key publications:

• Cerezo, A. I. (2000). El homicidio en la pareja: tratamiento criminológico. Valencia: Tirant lo Blanch.
• Cerezo, A. I. (2010). El protagonismo de las víctimas en la elaboración de las leyes penales. Valencia: Tirant lo Blanch.
• Cerezo, A. I. (2013). "CCTV and crime displacement: A quasi-experimental evaluation". European Journal of Criminology, 10(2), 222-236.