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Vania Ceccato is a Brazilian-Swedish geographer and professor at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. She specializes in Urban Studies and Environmental Criminology and has a strong focus on safety within urban environments. She leads the Urban & Community Safety Research Group and coordinates the network Safeplaces, which aims to enhance crime prevention strategies. Ceccato's research interests include Geographic Information Systems (GIS), spatial statistical methods, crime geography, urban safety, and the intersectionality of safety and crime's impact on housing markets. She actively participates in various journals and is a peer reviewer for multiple international publications. As an educator, she offers methodological courses at KTH, promoting the use of spatial data across research fields, and serves as an advisor for PhD students and post-doctoral researchers. Her outreach includes coordination of the Safeplaces network, participation in UN-Habitat programs, and contributions to public discussions on urban planning and safety issues, including media appearances and TEDTalks. Ceccato has held visiting research fellow positions in the UK and Austria and has a Master’s degree and Bachelor's in Geography from prominent Brazilian universities.
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