Maya Moritz is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Criminology. Her work focuses on place-based interventions including street lighting and murals. By utilizing novel data sources and technologies, she is exploring opportunities for mechanism testing to better understand and implement these environmental changes.
Her work has been published in Criminology and Public Policy and Cities. She is an embedded researcher at the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office, a Junior Fellow of the Institute for Humane Studies, a Doctoral Fellow of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, a recipient of the Kimchi Graduate Travel Award, and has won the Penn Grad Talks competition in the Social Sciences category.
She completed her B.Sc. in Economics at the University of St. Andrews, where she wrote her thesis on the German dual vocational training system and studied abroad at the University of Toronto. For her M.Sc. at Universität Mannheim, she contributed to projects related to the impact of family size on educational attainment and the legacy of legal reform in Prussia. She has also served in research assistance and science communications roles at the Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology, the GESIS-Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, the St. Andrews School of Economics, and the Rotman School of Management.