Researchers

GIAP is a rapidly evolving research team. In this page you will find links to currently active research staff:

Paloma Aliende

Specialised technician

Topography, photogrammetry, 3D reconstruction, licensed drone pilot

Giannis Apostolou

FI PhD candidate

Ceramic analysis, survey, Aegean archaeology

Sergio Badenes

PhD candidate

Landscape archaeology, GIS, archaeomorphology

Theoni
Baniou

ICAC PhD candidate

Archaeobotany, network analyses, food plant access, commerce, social identities

Iban Berganzo

PhD candidate

Lidar data treatment and manipulation, machine and deep learning

Efrosyni Boutsikas

Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow (joining 2022)

Advanced 3D modelling and landscape analyses

Arnau Carbonell-Puigventós

FPU PhD candidate

Landscape archaeology, survey, GIS

Lídia Colominas

Ramón y Cajal researcher

Archaeozoology, mountain archaeology, pastoralism, food studies, ancient economy, geometric morphometrics

Francesc C. Conesa

Juan de la Cierva-Incorporación postdoctoral fellow

Remote sensing, geostatistics, machine learning

Charlotte Diffey

Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow (joining 2022)

Advanced 3D modelling and landscape analyses

Maria Ferrer Bonet

Research assistant

Communication, project management, and staff coordination

Abel Gallego-Valle

Associate postdoctoral researcher

Archaeozoology, dental microwear, palaeoenvironment and animal husbandry

Arnau Garcia-Molsosa

Beatriu de Pinós (MSCA co-fund) postdoctoral fellow

Landscape & mountain archaeology, survey, GIS, remote sensing, machine learning

Merkourios Georgiadis

Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellow

Material culture, survey, landscape archaeology, Aegean archaeology

Navjot Kour

PCI postdoctoral fellow

Remote sensing, historical maps, cultural landscapes, Indus Civilisation, Bronze Age, South Asia

Alexandra Kriti

PhD candidate

Archaeobotany, experimental cultivation, agronomy, GMM, 3D recording

Alexandra Livarda

Ramón y Cajal researcher

Archaeobotany, bioarchaeology, environmental archaeology, Aegean archaeology, ancient economy, food studies

Alfredo Mayoral

Juan de la Cierva-Incorporación postdoctoral fellow

Geoarchaeology, geomorphology, palaeoenvironment, sedimentology, micromorphology

Hector A. Orengo

Ramón y Cajal researcher, GIAP co-director, head of internationalisation at ICAC

Landscape and computational archaeology

Josep M. Palet Martínez

ICAC director and senior researcher, GIAP co-director

Landscape archaeology, archaeomorphology, survey, mountain archaeology

Valentina Pescini

Juan de la Cierva-Formación postdoctoral fellow

Charcoal analysis, landscape archaeology, rural archaeology, palaeoenvironment

Tania Polonio

PhD candidate

Geoarchaeology, micromorphology, landscape archaeology, palaeoenvironment

Konstantina Venieri

FI PhD candidate

GIS, remote sensing, survey, Aegean archaeology

Toby C. Wilkinson

Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellow

Computational archaeology, past trade and movement, survey, landscape archaeology

Associate Researchers

Jesús Martínez
Landscape Archaeology, GIS, archaeology of rural areas

Marta Flórez
Landscape archaeology, mountain archaeology, archaeomorphology, knowledge transfer

Graham Roderick Jones
Medieval and early modern written documentation, landscape history

Michele Matteazzi
Archaeomorphology, mountain archaeolgy, cultural landscapes

Maria Jesús Ortega
Archaeomorphology, mountain archaeolgy, cultural landscape

Michael P. Wallace
Archaeobotany, stable isotopes, geometric morphometrics