Rafael Jiménez is a contract lecturer with a doctoral degree at the department of Psychology of the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB), and belongs to the area of Methodology of Behavioral Sciences.

Degree in Psychology from the UIB in 1998, with extraordinary prize of degree.

Doctoral degree in Psychology from the UIB in 2003.

Member of the Data Analysis group of the UIB.

Research experience: 26 articles in scientific journals, of which 12 are published in indexed journals in the Journal Citation Reports (JCR) of the Web of Science (WoS); 1 book and 1 chapter of book; more than 90 congress contributions, of which more than 30 are international; participation in 4 national competitive research projects.
The developed research during all these years has focused on the study and the application of methodologies and advanced statistical techniques to obtain knowledge models, in two ways: 1) Applications in the fields of Data Analysis and Data Mining (association rules, clustering, decision trees, artificial neural networks, etc.); 2. Applications in substantive fields of Behavioural Sciences (drugs use and abuse, measurement of attitudes and anxiety toward statistics).

Teaching experience: wide teaching experience, from October 1998 to the present day, through full-time contract lecturer positions in the department of Psychology at the UIB, in the area of Methodology of Behavioural Sciences.

Academic management experience: Vice-Dean and Head of Studies of the Faculty of Psychology at the UIB, from May 2007 to October 2016.