About

She holds a Ph.D. in Archaeology from Universitat Pompeu Fabra, a Bachelor’s degree in History from Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM), and a Master’s degree in Gender Studies from the same institution. After several years working as a professor and researcher focused on the history of cooking and gastronomy, she is now a research project manager at UPF. Her expertise includes grant writing and management, research communication strategies, support for the implementation of digital humanities tools, and team coordination. She currently supports several research groups within UPF’s Department of Humanities.

She is a postdoctoral researcher in Archaeometry at Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Her research focuses on ceramic archaeometry, with particular emphasis on medieval and modern ceramics, exploring how these materials were produced, traded, and used in the past. She combines scientific analysis with archaeological perspectives and digital tools such as 3D documentation, modelling, and visualisation. She has participated in several international research projects and archaeological excavations, with experience ranging from laboratory analysis to fieldwork in diverse contexts.

Carlos is a Puerto Rican archaeobotanist specialised in the study of plant microremains, such as phytoliths and starch grains. Using these approaches, he seeks to investigate past food systems, foodways, and socioecological interactions. He has conducted research in the Caribbean, North and South America, Europe, Africa, and Southwest Asia, across archaeological contexts ranging from the Neolithic to the present day in collaboration with international institutions and ERC-funded projects. As lead archaeobotanist, he is responsible for investigating island lifeways and foodway practices through the integration of archaeobotanical remains with ethnographic and historical sources.

She is a predoctoral researcher at UPF with a solid background in archaeology. After studying Archaeology and Prehistory at the University of Amsterdam, where she gained fieldwork experience in the Netherlands, Curaçao, and Greece, she specialized in heritage management. Her master’s thesis focused on archaeology in Curaçao, which led her to become one of the first Curaçaoan archaeologists at the National Archaeological Anthropological Memory Management Foundation (NAAM). Since then, she has worked to protect the island’s heritage, specializing in the Historical period and combining archaeology with heritage management.

Iris van Vlimmeren, BA is currently a Research Master’s student at Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, and an intern with the IslandLives project. Her academic focus lies in the social and demographic history of the ABC islands, with particular attention to themes of gender, religion, and disability history. She has previously contributed to the Historical Database of Suriname and the Caribbean, and completed an internship at the Mongui Maduro Library in Curaçao, where she helped develop public-facing databases and educational materials to broaden access to archival resources.