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I hold a Bachelor in History (specialization in Prehistory) by Complutense University of Madrid (2005) and obtained the Diploma de Estudios Avanzados at the same university (2007); my research project explored a revision of the Early Upper Palaeolithic in the Iberian Peninsula. In 2011, I received my doctorate which was entitled: ‘On the Gravettian technology unit in the Iberian Peninsula: implications for understanding the Early Upper Paleolithic’. (Complutense University of Madrid, Sobresaliente cum laude and Extraordinary prize award PhD).
I have been based at the University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa) since July 2012 as a Postdoctoral fellow and, since 2018, as a Researcher (not a Postdoc) in the same Institution. In September 2020 I obtained a prestigious research contract with a double affiliation: at the University of Witwatersrand as Senior Researcher, and at the University of Cambridge as Senior Research Associate, to investigate and do fieldwork on African Quaternary Archaeology and Hominin Palaeoecology in Southern Africa Savana biome. I contributed and did research in both of these Institutions in terms of not only research, but also teaching and contributing to academic citizenship. In the 1st of September of 2022 I started a Ramón y Cajal research contract at the Departamento de Prehistoria y Arqueología. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras of the Universidad de Granada (Spain) to continue my research on Late Pleistocene Archaeology. Since October 2022, I am Honorary Researcher at the Evolutionary Studies Institute (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa). Since December 2022 I am Visiting Scholar at the MacDonald Archaeological Research Institute (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom).
I have extensive experience in fieldwork related to the Quaternary period, on both prospection surveys as well as excavations. I have directed eight archaeological excavations and several prospection surveys (in South Africa and in Spain). Since my postdoctoral research in South Africa I have developed three research projects as Principal investigator: ‘Piedemonte Project: Between the Maloti-Drakensberg and the Great escarpment’, ‘Understanding the variability of the Pietersburg Industries: a comparative analysis of Middle Stone Age sites from different South African biomes’ and ‘Geomagnetic field excursions for Late Pleistocene-Holocene deposits in South Africa and Lesotho: Geoarchaeological and chronological implications for the Later and Middle Stone Age’. All my excavations have been conducted on the framework of research grants and linked to universities. Thus, in all of my field directions I have taught field techniques and archaeological methods to University students. Besides my fieldwork multidisciplinary projects, I have developed several lines of research linking technology, experimentation, and functional analysis to understand stone tools of the Early Upper Paleolithic and Middle Stone Age. In this regard, I have works dealing with bipolar knapping, blade reduction, Levallois reduction, quartz, bifacial pieces, etc. (I have 54 peer review publications).
Since July 2020 I am Assistant Editor of the Editorial committee of the South African Archaeological Bulletin. This year I have been invited to be also part of the editorial committee of the Journal Trabajos de Prehistoria (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas). I often review in high impact factor Journals in prehistory such as Quaternary Science Reviews, Lithic Technology, Journal of Human Evolution, Nature Ecology and Evolution or Journal of Archaeological Science, among others.
I have extensive experience on teaching Hominin Evolution, African Archaeology, Lithics and excavation field technics and methods. I have taught at Univeisidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain), University of Cambridge (United Kingdom), University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa) and Universidad de Granada (Spain).I have extensive experience on Supervision of Masters and Honours students of the University of the Witwatersrand for the degrees of Archaeology and Paleontology (5). I have co-supervised three Master students in the University of the Witwatersrand and Universidad de Granada. Currently I have started to co-supervise a PhD student at the University of the Witwatersrand. I also co-supervised a postdoctoral project of Dr. Débora Egea in the CONICET (Argentina) and –at the end of April– I will co-supervise a postdoctoral project on Howiesons Poort lithic technology in collaboration with Dr Alastair Key (University of Cambridge). During my period as Senior Researcher and the Evolutionary Studies Institute I was a member of the Faculty of Science Transformation Committee (University of the Witwatersrand) from 2019 – 2022. This involved monitoring the gender equity, racial equity and transformation of the academic environment to include persons of all races into a safe, comfortable and enabling environment.
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