Bachelor of History from the University of Valencia (UV), Extraordinary End of Degree Award in the 2012/2013 academic year. Master in Archeology (UV) in the 2013/2014 academic year. Master's Degree in Professor of Secondary Education (UV), in the specialty Geography and History in the course 2020/2021. Doctor by the UV, with the thesis: «Piezas de hueso, asta, cuerno and ivory in Iberian time. Of his preparation to his interpretation ”, defended on 06/30/2020 with qualification of Excellent Cum Laude (International Doctorate).
I obtained in 2016 a predoctoral scholarship attraction of the talent of the University of Valencia that allowed me to carry out my doctoral dissertation and to join the teaching activities, innovation and research of the Department of Prehistory, Archeology and Ancient History. Thanks to the obtaining of the "Iberoamérica Scholarship. Santander Research »In the 2015 and 2017 calls, I conducted two research stays at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of the Autonomous University of San Luis Potosí (Mexico), as well as a third, within my predoctoral contract, in The Laboratoire Préhistoire et technologie. Maison of the Archéologie et de l'Emnologie (Mae) (CNRS - Université Paris Nanterre, Paris).
Between December 2021 and August 2022 I carried out a research project thanks to the grant of the 2020 Archeology Scholarship of the City of Valencia in the MUNIPAL Archaeological Research Service on: "The objects made in subjects Hard of animal origin (bone, asta, ivory and horn) recovered in the urban excavations of Valencia. ”
From January to August 2022 I worked as a postdoctoral researcher Juan de la Cierva-formation at the Catalan Institute of Classical Archeology, next to Dr. Carme Belarte, on a project on "Forgotten Craft.Objects made in hard animals in the Iron Age ”(Project complemented by a postdoctoral research stay between February and May 2023). Since September 2022 I joined the Archeology Department of the Department of Prehistory, Archeology and Ancient History of the University of Valencia as a doctor's assistant professor. Currently teaching in the degree of History and the Official Master in Archeology of this University, as well as continuing with the lines of research developed from my doctoral dissertation. I was also part of courses 2022/2023 and 2023/2024 of the educational innovation project: Metarq. Active methodologies for the learning of prehistory, archeology and ancient history (service of permanent training and educational innovation of the University of Valencia). In the academic year 2024/2025 co-direction, within the same service of the UV, the educational innovation project: "A didactic backpack. Digital and replicas resources for the learning of fauna and flora in archeology (PIEE-3326183) .

Co -director of the archeological excavation project promoted since 2022 by the Provincial Museum and the Diputación de Teruel in the Iberian site of Alto Chacón (Teruel). Co -director of archeological excavations in the protohistoric necropolis of Milmanda (Vimbodí, Tarragona) in a project developed by the Protohistoric Archeology Group of the Catalan Institute of Classical Archeology.

Principal researcher of the project "ASIR Y Decorating: Empuñaduras de Espadas in Epoa Ibérica" (CIGE/2023/76). 01/12/2024 - 12/31/2025. Funded by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Universities and Employment of the Generalitat Valenciana.

My lines of research are focused on the industry on hard animals, the Iron Age, timeIberian, feminist archeology, operational chains and craft work, especially in forgotten crafts.

Accredited by the ANECA as an assistant doctor of doctor since 2021 and as a teacher contracted Doctor from 2024.

I am a CIDEGENT researcher in archaeo-geophysics at the University of Valencia (UV) since August 2023, and I hold a research affiliation with the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). With a background in archaeology (UV, 1993-1998) and approximately seven years of experience in rescue archaeology across Spain and the UK, I developed my expertise in geophysical prospection through an MSc from Bradford University, England (2007-2008), and a PhD from the University of Glasgow, Scotland (2009-2013). Over the years, I have held research and consultancy roles in various countries, including Norway (NTNU, 2017-2023), Austria (CTBTO, 2015-2016), and Greece (FORTH-IMS, 2013-2015).

My research is inherently interdisciplinary, combining archaeology, near-surface geophysics, geosciences, and heritage management. It focuses on the discovery, exploration, and documentation of buried archaeological sites and landscapes, many of which are under threat from agricultural intensification, urban expansion, or climate change. I aim to demonstrate the potential of combined geophysical techniques as a cost-effective and complementary approach to traditional archaeological methods, such as trial trenching and excavation.

I have conducted both intra-site and landscape-scale archaeological characterisations across a variety of sites in Greece, Cyprus, Norway, the United Arab Emirates, Spain, Estonia, and Denmark. My work has involved the use of single-channel geophysical instruments as well as motorised multi-sensor magnetometer and GPR platforms. I like developing the best and least invasive strategies for detecting and studying hidden archaeological remains. For this reason, I often integrate remote and proximal sensing techniques along with soil characterisation to optimise my studies.

Currently, I am the Principal Investigator of the SENSING IBERIANSCAPES (CIDEXG/2022/55) project, which focuses on uncovering and studying Iron Age sites and landscapes across the Eastern Iberian Peninsula. By combining near-surface geophysical tools such as GPR and magnetometers with LiDAR, multispectral satellite imagery, and soil analyses, the project aims to deepen our understanding of cultural and landscape dynamics during this period. We seek to reveal hidden archaeological features and their spatial relationships, shedding light on settlement patterns, socio-political structures, and how ancient communities interacted with their environments.

Beyond archaeological investigations, my interests have expanded to the humanitarian applications of geophysical prospection. This includes the use of geophysics to locate unmarked human burials, mass graves, and illegal infrastructure. I am a CTBTO inspector (roster) for the implementation of geophysical surveys during on-site inspections as part of the verification regime for the CTB Treaty.

I am open to supervising Master's and Doctoral theses in areas such as archaeological geophysics, landscape archaeology in the Nordic and Mediterranean regions, and monitoring endangered cultural heritage. If you have any inquiries or need guidance in these fields, please do not hesitate to reach out.

I graduated in History (2002) and I got a PhD in Archaeology (2009) by the University of Valencia with a Doctoral Thesis on the urban morphology of the ancient city of Carthage (Tunisia) between the 8th and 2nd centuries BC. I have made pre-doctoral study stays in the University of Bologna (1999-2000), in the School of History and Archaeology in Rome of the CSIC (2005-2007) and in the Royal Academy of Spain in Rome (2008-2009). I have made short study stays at l'École française d'Athènes (2010) and at Oxford University (2011). I have enjoyed postdoctoral research contracts at the German Archaeological Institute in Berlin (2011-2013) and at the Maison méditerranéenne des sciences de l'homme d'Aix-en-provence of the CNRS (2015-2016). Since 2018 I enjoy the Ramon y Cajal research contract granted by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation.

I am currently leading a Research Project on the territorial bases of the Carthaginian urban phenomenon and the exploitation of the natural resources of the landscape surrounding the ancient city of Carthage (Tunisia), both in Punic and Roman times. The project is funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, by the Spanish Institute of Cultural Heritage and by the Palarq Foundation, and is being developed in close collaboration with the Tunisian National Institute of Heritage.

Professor of Archaeology at the University of Valencia. He has six recognized teaching sections and six research productivity sections. Member of the Grup de Recerca en Arqueologia del Mediterrani (GRAM) of the Universitat de València. Member of the International Scientific Committee of the Corpus Signorum Imperii Romani (under the auspices of the International Association for Classical Archaeology). Director of the Department of Prehistory and Archaeology at the University of Valencia (1999-2002). Coordinator in 2013 and member of the Academic Committee of the PhD Programme of the University of Valencia, Geography and History of the Mediterranean from Prehistory to the Modern Age (2013-2023). Director of the Master’s Degree in Cultural Heritage: Identification, Analysis and Management at the University of Valencia (2014-2023). He has directed 11 doctoral theses and currently directs 7 others in progress. He has been Principal Investigator for several national and regional R&D&I projects, as well as for some twenty non-competitive R&D&I contracts/projects with public administrations. His research activity has developed in the field of archaeology, mainly Roman with studies in Spain and Italy. He has directed or co-directed archaeological campaigns in Bilbilis (Calatayud, Zaragoza), Villa del Mitra (Cabra, Córdoba), Roman Temple of Cordoba, Roman aqueduct of Peña Cortada (Los Serranos, Valencia), Roman villa of L'Horta Vella (Bétera, Valencia). He has also directed several archaeological intervention projects related to the 1% Cultural in the Valencian castles of Chirel and Pileta (Cortes de Pallas), Buñol and Turís. He has also directed archaeological research linked to the Rehabilitation Project of the Palau de Cerveró in Valencia, current headquarters of the Institut d'Història de la Medicina i de la Ciència López Piñero of the University of Valencia. In Italy he has made the architectural study of the sanctuary of Juno in Gabii and has been part of the Spanish archaeological team in Pompeii, who has carried out the study of the Casa/Caupona I. 8. 8 and Casa I. 8. 5. He has carried out research stays in different universities and institutions of Rome, Bologna, Naples, Pompeii, Warsaw.

Main lines of research: 1) Roman urbanism and architecture; 2) Hispano-Roman cities, Valentia and its rural environment; 3) Roman hydraulics in Valencian territory; 4) Dissemination and enhancement of archaeological heritage. Of these themes, author or editor of 7 complete books and about 200 publications in scientific journals, book chapters and congresses, national and international. He has lectured in Spain, France, Portugal, Italy and Poland.

He has curated two exhibitions, El Apolo de Pinedo (Valencia) at the Prehistory Museum of Valencia (1994) and Bajo la cólera del Vesubio. Testimonios de Pompeya y Herculano en la época de Carlos III, in the Museum of Fine Arts of Valencia with several itinerances in Sagunto, Alicante and Murcia (2004-2005). He has also participated in the preparation of the exhibition Sotto i lapilli in the Auditorium of Pompeii (Italy) (1998).

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David Martínez Chico is an ancient historian, numismatist, archaeologist, as well as the founder and editor-in-chief of Revista Numismática Hécate (first Spanish numismatic journal to be indexed in Scopus). He completed his studies of history at the University of Murcia and obtained a master’s degree in archaeology at the University of Valencia. Martínez Chico has participated in several archaeological campaigns of  the Roman period. A grant-in-aid from the International Numismatic Council allowed him to stay in Oxford for a couple of months where he collaborated on the “Coin Hoards of the Roman Empire Project”, under supervision of Chris Howgego. Other grant from the Casa de Velázquez (École des hautes études hispaniques et ibériques) allowed him to stay in Lisboa in order to acces Portuguese hoards and ancient literature.

His central field of study covers the ancient period of the Iberian Peninsula and the Roman period. He is currently working on a doctoral thesis, under the supervision of Professor Pere Pau Ripollès (University of Valencia), about imperial hoards found in the Iberian Peninsula, investigating monetization and coin supply in Hispania from the reign of Augustus to the 6th century AD. Many of his papers have been published in Spain, Portugal, United Kingdom, Italy, France, Belgium, Germany, Romania and Switzerland, and translated into more than eighty bibliographic titles. He has published in the main numismatic journals of Europe, i.e., Numismatic Chronicle, Revue Numismatique, etc. Historical approaches focusing on ancient history, and always emphasizing the study of written and archaeological sources, have not been absent either. Roman epigraphy can be cited as a written source, a field in which he has published several works in Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik. He is currently working in new fields in order to establish interdisciplinary relationships (lead isotope analysis, Roman mining and trade).

Additionally, he is member of the Asociación Numismática Española, Societat Catalana d’Estudis Numismàtics, Royal Numismatic Society and Société Française de Numismatique.

Degree in History from the Universitat de València with Extraordinary Honor Prize (2006) and Doctor cum laude in Archaeology from the same university (2013). He developed his PhD The Requena-Utiel Plateau in the 2^nd-1^st centuries BC. The Romanization of the Iberian territory of Kelin under the direction of Prof. Consuelo Mata, in the framework of a pre-doctoral fellowship Cinc Segles UV and with a grant from the Instituto Alicantino de Cultura Juan Gil-Albert. The thesis was later published as a monograph in the Miscellaneous serie of the Servei d'Investigació Prehistòrica (2015). During the realization of the PhD, he developed research stays in the School of Human Evolution & Social Change of the Arizona State University (USA) under the direction of Prof. Michael Barton, in the School of Humanities of the University of Southampton (England) with Prof. Simon Keay and in the Department of Archeology at the University of Glasgow (Scotland) with Prof. Peter Van Dommelen. 

Subsequently, he enjoyed a VAL i+D GVA postdoctoral contract at the UV Department of Prehistory, Archaeology and Ancient History, with a one-year postdoctoral stay at the Joukowsky Institute for Archeology and the Ancient World at Brown University (USA). He has recently developed a research stay at EEHAR (Italy). He has been an associate professor of Ancient History at the UV, an associate professor in the Department of Humanities at the Universidad Cardenal Herrera CEU and a collaborating professor at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. He is currently an Lecturer (PPL) of ​​Archaeology at the UV. He has taught in the degrees of History, Art History and Philosophy, as well as in the master's degree in Archaeology.

He is specialized in Iberian Culture and his line of research is focused on Landscape & Territory analysis, rural habitat, pottery production, metallurgy, beekeeping, as well as Romanization processes of indigenous societies. He has co-directed the archaeological excavations in the Iberian rural settlement of Casa de la Cabeza (Requena, Valencia) and in the metallurgical workshop of Los Chotiles (Sinarcas, Valencia). Since 2017, together with Consuelo Mata, he has co-directed the project for the excavation, research and enhancement of the Iberian hillfort of Pico de los Ajos (Yátova, Valencia), in collaboration with the Museu de Prehistòria de València and the Ayuntamiento de Yátova, integrated within the Ruta dels Ibers. València. Likewise, he has carried out 4 surveying campaigns for the Iberian and Roman settlement pattern in the Requena-Utiel region and has worked on numerous excavations in Spain and Italy, highlighting his participation in the projects of the Casa di Arianna and Via degli Augustali (Pompeii, Italy), Truncu e'Molas & Pauli Stincus (Punic occupation in Sardinia, Italy) and Djebel Mergueb (territory of Carthage, Tunisia). He is the PI 2 of the MCIU "Generación de Conocimiento" research project "QartLand: Paisajes económicos y organización territorial del periodo púnico a la romanización. Estudio comparado entre las áreas de Cartago (Túnez) y las de Arse/Sagunto y Sucro” (PID2022-139214NB-I00).

He is part of the editorial board of the journal Saitabi (Facultat de Geografia i Història, UV). He has been reviewer in journals such as the Cambridge Archaeological Journal, Trabajos de Prehistoria and SAGVNTVM. He has participated in the elaboration of two master plans, one of the Iberian Culture in Valencia and another of the aforementioned Pico de los Ajos.

He is head of initiative of the Vice-Principal of Culture and Society, coordinating the Unisocietat program in different locations (Requena, Bétera and Cullera). In addition to that, he coordinates the Seasonal Universities of Requena (Wine), Ayora (Honey Culture) and Olocau (Iberian Culture). It is part of the Centro de Estudios Requenenses and the Instituto de Estudios Comarcales de la Hoya de Buñol-Chiva, an institution from which received a research prize in 2009. He has got 2 six-year research periods by ANECA.