Vanessa Centelles is a first-year doctoral student in the Criminology Department. She received her B.A. (2017) and M.A (2019) in Criminology from USF as a Graduate Student Success Fellow. Currently, she works as a graduate assistant for the MACJA program under the direction of Dr. Max Bromley, providing mentorship and assistance to the students as the program's writing coach.

Ms. Centelles' research interests include violent victimization, gender-based crime, and the influence of social media on crime. Specifically, she is interested in how forms of in-person victimization may be facilitated by online abuse. As such, Ms. Centelles is currently expanding on her Master's thesis (Dating Application Facilitated Victimization: An Examination of Lifestyle-Routine Activities, Self-Control, and Self Efficacy) under the guidance of Dr. Ráchael Powers and Dr. Richard Moule.

Ms. Centelles plans on completing her Ph.D. in 2023. She looks forward to a career in academia, with a long-term goal of becoming a professor at a research-focused university.