FRUITCOM - Key Persons
Carlos Ferrer-García obtained his PhD in Physical Geography at the Universitat de València (UV) in 2015. He is currently Curator at the Museum of...
Carolina Royo received her PhD in Biotechnology from the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia in 2010. Afterwards, she joined the group led by Prof. José Miguel Martínez Zapater at the National Center for Biotechnology (CNB) and at the Institute of Grapevine and Wine Sciences (ICVV). The main achievements of her career have been to unravel the genetic basis underlying seedlessness and berry colour. These results are published in prestigious international Q1 international journals. Since 2018, she has applied her genetic knowledge to the study of ancient DNA (aDNA) diversity in archaeological grapevine seeds. Her work at FRUITCOM focuses on the sequencing and study of grape remains.
Job Titles:
- Assistant Professor at the Deparment of Prehistory
David Quixal Santos is currently Assistant Professor at the Deparment of Prehistory, Archaeology and Ancient History of the University of Valencia....
Diego Sabato, PhD is an archaeobotanist working on the FRUITCOM project. He holds a Bachelor's and a Master's degree in Conservation Science from the University of Rome "La Sapienza" (2007 and 2010), a PhD in Applied Botany from the University of Cagliari, Italy (2015) and he was a post-doctoral fellow at the Institute of History of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). His research areas include archaeobotany, charcoal analyses, seed and fruit morphology, the reconstruction of past diets and the study of human-environment interactions. He has conducted fieldwork in several countries (Italy, Spain, Turkey, Albania and Hungary). He has participated in several large European projects both in Spain and in Italy (e.g. AGRIWESTMED - Origins and spread of agriculture in the south-western Mediterranean region and MEMOLA - Mediterranean Mountainous Landscapes: a historical approach to cultural heritage based on traditional agrosystems projects). Most of his research has been published in indexed journals and he has participated in many conferences and scientific seminars.
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- Lecturer of the Department of History, Geography and Communication of the University of Burgos since 2011. Doctorate at the University of the Basque.
Lecturer of the Department of History, Geography and Communication of the University of Burgos since 2011. Doctorate at the University of the Basque Country in 2004, was an assistant at the University of Cantabria (2006-2009) and PhD Researcher and Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Archeology and Anthropology of the IMF-CSIC (Spanish Research Council) (2009-2011) (Barcelona). He has made research stays in various institutions such as the University College of London (England), Fribourg University (Switzerland), etc. and numerous fieldwork campaigns in Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Morocco and the Iberian Peninsula.
His main research line focuses on the paleoenvironmental reconstruction of Quaternary sedimentary records, both in archaeological sites and in different sedimentary environments. His research work focuses on the study of sedimentary records, from lake surveys to speleothems, using the typical tools of stratigraphy and sedimentology, although they are complemented with advanced geochemical studies and the statistical analysis of the results. Since 2019 supervises the IsoTOPIK stable isotope laboratory at the University of Burgos.
Guillem Pérez-Jordà obtained his PhD at the Universitat de València (UV) in 2013 and has developed most of his research career at the IH-CSIC in Madrid. He is currently a researcher at the Dept. of Prehistory, Archaeology and Ancient History at the UV and is the IP of the FRUITCOM project. His work has focused on the study of past agricultural communities based on archaeobotanical remains, tools and structures linked to this activity. He has collaborated in various national and international projects from the Neolithic to the Middle Ages.
Jaime Vives-Ferrándiz holds a PhD degree from the University of Valencia (2005). He has been Curator at the Museum of Prehistory in Valencia (Spain) since 2004. His interests focus on the Western Mediterranean during the first millennium BCE, colonial situations, urbanisation processes and the social and material reproduction of Iron Age Iberian communities. Currently he conducts research at the Iron Age settlement of La Bastida de les Alcusses (Moixent) and at the necropolis of La Cua II (Llíria). He has been exhibition curator of different displays and has developed heritage projects in Iron Age sites. In the FRUITCOM project he will be studying features and structures for the transformation of the agrarian produce (oil and wine presses, mills) and farming tools.
Job Titles:
- Professor at the University of Lleida
Jordi Voltas is full professor at the University of Lleida where he explores the ecophysiological and adaptive structure of forest trees and herbaceous plants typical of the Mediterranean region. He has extensively applied stable isotopes of low-mass elements (13C, 18O, 2H, 15N) in ecology, physiology and genetics of plant species. This information has been used to develop models of palaeoenvironmental inference across the Mediterranean basin with the aim of gaining information on the environmental conditions prevailing during the Holocene. His work at FRUITCOM focuses on the definition of cultivation methods based on isotopic studies.
José Miguel Martínez Zapater got his PhD in Biology from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (1983) and was postdoctoral fellow at the MSU-DOE Plant...
Laurent Bouby completed his PhD in Archaeology at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Toulouse, France) in 2010 and his Accreditation to Supervise Research (French HDR) in Biology at the University of Montpellier in 2020. He is an archaeobotanist at CNRS (Research Engineer), Institute of Evolution Sciences (ISEM), Montpellier University. His research work focuses on the history of agriculture and the exploitation of plant resources in the North-Western Mediterranean, since the last hunter-gatherers, based on the study of archaeological macroremains. He has been active in several national and international research programs and is the Principal Investigator of the ANR program VINICULTURE (National Agency of Research) aiming to explore the diversity of grapes and wines in France since the Neolithic.
Leonor Peña-Chocarro is a researcher based at the Instituto de Historia of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) in Madrid. Her research area is the study of plant remains (seeds and fruits) recovered from archaeological contexts through which she investigates issues related to the subsistence and use of plant resources in the past. Her main interest has focused on the origins of agriculture in the western Mediterranean although she has also investigated later periods. Trained in England, where she obtained a Master's degree in Archaeobiology and a PhD in prehistoric agriculture, her research has always been characterized by multidisciplinary approaches. She has participated in numerous research projects, mainly in Mediterranean areas both as a member of the research team and as a principal researcher. In 2008, she obtained an ERC Advanced Grant on the origins and spread of agriculture in the western Mediterranean. Her research has been presented in more than 160 papers published in national and international journals, as well as in book chapters and edited volumes. Her work at FRUITCOM focuses on the study of archaeobotanical materials.
Mònica Aguilera Delgado is an adjunct lecturer and a researcher based at School of Agricultural and Forestry Engineering (ETSEA) of the...
Job Titles:
- Professor of Prehistory at the University of Lleida
Natàlia Alonso is Professor of Prehistory at the University of Lleida in Catalonia. Her scientific interests, always focusing on Protohistoric agriculture in the Western Mediterranean, have led her to explore aspects of paleoecology, isotopic analysis, wild fruit exploitation, food and especially cereal crops and their processing (agricultural and domestic) and gender. Her work in each of these fields has always included innovative aspects and groundbreaking methods. She has also incorporated new lines of research such as ethnoarchaeology (UB project in Tunisia, 2010-2012), experimental archaeology and didactic studies (RecerCaixa project, 2012-2013 as IP). She has been the leader of the R+D projects of the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, HAR2016-78277-R, "Farming and food practices, settlements and domestic spaces. Evolution the Plains of the southern Pyrenees (3 rd-1st millennium BCE)" (PRASED), 2017-2019, and PID2019-110022GB-I00, "Mobility, circulation and exchange in the Catalan Western Plain between the third and first millennium BCE" (MOBICEX), 2020-2023. She is also PI of the project 2018CRINDESTABC-8, "Archaeological approach to agri-food practices: links between the past and present (ArqueoAgro)", INDEST-UdL. 2019-20201, and coordinator of the Research Network RED2018-102440-T, "ARQUEOCULT. Archaeology of Past Crops", 2020-2021. Her research has been presented in more than 150 papers, book chapters and books in national and international publications. Her work at FRUITCOM focuses on the study of archaeobotanical remains, storage and cereals processing (archaeobotanical approach, querns and mills).
Yolanda Carrión Marco is a researcher from the Dept. of Prehistory, Archaeology and Ancient History at the UV. She is an expert in charcoal analysis...