Research Personnel in Training from the Department of Art History of the University of Valencia (2020).

Andrés Ávila Valverde (Mislata, 1995) has a degree in History (2013-2017) and Art History (2017-2019), both from the University of Valencia. Thanks to the ERASMUS program, he was able to stay during the 2015-2016 academic year at the Università della Sapienza, in Rome. Likewise, he has carried out curricular internships at the Museu d'Història de València where he worked on aspects related to communication and social networks (2017) and has collaborated with the magazine Makma of visual arts and contemporary culture (2019).

In the academic year 2018-2019, he obtained the Collaboration Grant with the Department of Art History of the University of Valencia, starting in the research tasks linked to the mentioned department. However, its academic production began after the completion of the University Master of Academic Excellence in Art History and Visual Culture at the University of Valencia and the Jaume I University of Castelló (2019-2020) and the subsequent obtaining of the Teacher Training scholarship University (FPU) of the Ministry of Universities, becoming, as of November 1, 2020, Research Personnel in Training at the Department of Art History of the University of Valencia.

His general interests are in art, history, culture, Christianity, and languages. Currently, he is focused on research and he is carrying out his doctoral thesis whose title is 'THE EUCHARIST IN VALENCIAN ART: COMMUNION CHAPELS AND TRASAGRARIES' inserted in the I+D Research Project of the Ministry of Economy, Industry, and Competitiveness: GEOART (https://geoart.es/) on Geographies of artistic mobility. Valencia in Modern Times, directed by professor Mercedes Gómez-Ferrer Lozano (mercedes.gomez-ferrer@uv.es).

Finally, since December 2020 he has held the position of Vice President of the Association of young researchers of the Faculty of Geography and History of the University of Valencia, 'PANGAEA', where he has been a member since 2019.

Torrent, 1967. Degree in Geography and History (1990) and a PhD in Art History (2010) from the Universitat de València. He has developed his professional activity as director of the Museu Comarcal de l'Horta Sud Josep Ferrís March, from its creation in 1996 until 2013. Throughout this period he has combined this activity with teaching as an associate lecturer in the Department of History of Art at the University of Valencia. In 2013 he obtained a position as assistant professor and since 2018 he has been a full professor. He has been an elected member of the Senate since 2014, where he has been a member of several university management bodies, such as the Governing Council, the Statutes Committee and the Claustro Board. Between 2018 and 2023 he was director of the cultural heritage area of the Universitat de València.

His lines of research focus on the study of certain manifestations of cultural heritage related to the landscapes where they are integrated, such as popular architecture, industrial architecture and the heritage of public works, on which he has published various contributions in specialized journals and collective works.

He has worked on drawing up inventories of immovable ethnological heritage (1994) and industrial heritage in the Valencian Community (1997-2005) and has been a member of the drafting teams of various territorial planning instruments, special plans, master plans for monuments and municipal catalogues of protected buildings and spaces, and has authored a good number of reports on the protection and management of immovable cultural monuments. He has participated in more than ten research contracts and in several R&D projects financed in public calls.

PhD in Art History at the Univeristy Jaume I (2009), Extraordinary PhD prize and Assistant Professor at the Department of Art History of the University of Valencia. His main study fields are linked to the cultural study of the image, the festivals and ephemeral art in Europe and America and, more recently, the study of the arts linked to Franciscan centers in the north of New Spain. He has developed them in reference centers such as the School of Hispanic Studies (CSIC) of Seville, the Institute of Aesthetic Research of the UNAM in Mexico, UCLA and the Getty Research Institute of Los Angeles, the University of California Irvine, the University of Naples or the Warburg Institute in London. Results of his work are the monograph "El Triunfo del Virrey, Glorias novohispanas: origen, apogeo y declive de la entrada virreinal" (2012) and, in co-authorship, five volumes of the series "La Fiesta Barroca", directed by Víctor Mínguez. He has participated in several i+d projects and is currently leading a national research project as principal researcher: "The ancestors of Carlos V and the beginning of the Early Modern festivals (2018-2020)".

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Mireia Ferrer Álvarez is Associate Professor at the Department of Art History of the Faculty of Geography and History of the Universitat de València.

PhD in History of Art from the University of Valencia with the PhD Dissertation "Paris y los pintores valencianos 1880-1914" (2007). She studied at the Universitat de València, at the Université Paris Sorbonne IV, École des Hautes Études in Sciences Social in Paris and at the Institute of Fine Arts at the University of New York.

She has been teaching at the Universitat de Valencia History of Art Department since 2000-2001. Currently teaches in the Degree in Art History (Universitat de València), Master de Patrimonio Cultural (Universitat de València), Master Universitario en Historia del Arte y Cultura Visual (Universitat de València. Universitat Jaume I de Castelló); Diploma de Especialización en Análisis y Autentificación de obras de arte (Universitat de València); PERMEA. Programa Experimental de Mediación y Educación a través del Arte ( Consorcio de Museos de la Comunitat Valenciana-Universitat de València) and Master de Fotografía Universitat de València-Espai d'Art Fotogràfic.

She has directed as (PR) the Research Project (R&D) "El arte y su función social en las sociedades contemporáneas" and as a member of nine R & D Projects of the Universitat de València, the Universitat de Barcelona and the European Union.

Her fields of research are focused on Cultural Studies, Women and Gender Studies, Museum Studies, Artistic Heritage and Spanish and Valencian contemporary art.

Dr Mar Gaitán is a Margarita Salas post-doc fellow at the Universitat de València (Spain) and the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM, Italy) where she currently works as full PhD researcher  developing a series of toolkits to  support sustainable development through the use and conservation of heritage collections. She had formerly graduated as an Art Historian and MA in Cultural Heritage Conservation and Management both from the Universitat de València (Spain). Specialist in cultural management, digital humanities and controlled vocabularies, she has developed part of her career in research centres dedicated to the conservation and protection of cultural heritage of great prestige, such as the National Coordination of Cultural Heritage- INAH (Mexico) and the International Centre of Studies for the Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage (Rome), working with innovative methodologies and tools that have a direct impact on society and the conservation of cultural heritage. She has participated in several projects of regional, national and European trajectory such as SILKNOW (H2020-EU), Women's Legacy (Erasmus +), SeMap (BBVA Foundation) or Arxiu Valencià del Disseny (PROMETEO-GVA).  Member of the group Rereadings. Museum Itineraries from a Gender Perspective, and of ICOM in the Documentation Committee, and in the Audiovisual and New Technologies. Author of +30 scientific publications. Her research interests are focused on Cultural Heritage, gender studies and creative industries. She has a strong interdisciplinary profile and has special interest in the emerging collaborative work between ICT and SSH researchers.

Vanesa García López de Andújar holds a degree in Art History from the University of Zaragoza, where she was awarded the Carlos Riba Extraordinary Degree Prize. She is also an Architect from the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV) with a Master's in Architectural Heritage Conservation, specializing in Management. Additionally, she holds a Professional Expert title in advanced technologies for the management and documentation of cultural heritage.

RESEARCH:
She is currently a Predoctoral Researcher in Training within the project "Gender Relations, Identity, and Transgenerationality in Maya Culture. Interdisciplinary Approaches to Building New Narratives about the Past and Present of the Maya (ReGIT-Maya)." Her doctoral thesis focuses on the design and conception of the Virtual Museum of Maya Women, exploring the potential of virtual museums to highlight the role of women and their activities throughout history, with a special focus on the Mesoamerican context.

Her research areas also include the use of new technologies applied to heritage conservation, management, and dissemination, with an emphasis on heritage interpretation and enhancement from a gender perspective, as well as approaches based on sustainable development and heritage education.

She has trained in international cooperation and has conducted part of her research in cooperation projects in Mérida (Mexico), Flores (Guatemala), and Maputo (Mozambique).

She is a member of the Arsmaya Research Group (UV) and the Joint Research Unit on Heritage and Sustainable Development (UV-UPV).

She has participated in research projects such as "Digital Alliances in the Era of Smart Cultural Tourism: Safeguarding and Immersive Multisensory Storytelling in the (In)tangible Cultural Heritage of Hygeia-Roma Hispana. Co-funded by the Spanish State Research Agency (AEI), the Ministry of Science and Innovation, and the European Union – NextGenerationEU.

She has published six journal articles, six book chapters, and contributed to fifteen conferences.

KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER:
She has participated in national and international heritage dissemination projects, particularly those focused on citizen engagement in heritage conservation and management, and its connection to local sustainable development.

She has conducted over 20 heritage education workshops for children and organized several public engagement events for the European Heritage Days, highlighting activities related to the railway heritage of La Encina and its population.

TEACHING:
She is a lecturer in the Microcredential Course on Cultural Heritage Virtualization: Practical Cases of 3D Technology Applications in Humanities Research at the University of Valencia and has been a guest lecturer at the European University.

She has participated in various Educational Innovation Projects and is a member of the Consolidated Teaching Innovation Group ArsMaya.

OTHER RELEVANT ACTIONS:
She has been part of the organizing committee of six international conferences and seminars, curated two exhibitions, and serves as deputy secretary of the journal Pasajes de Pensamiento Contemporáneo, published by the University of Valencia.

She has co-directed the NollaMap Project, a participatory mapping of Nolla Ceramics, co-funded by the Ministry of Culture and Valencia World Design Capital, and the project "17 Goals and a Map," a permanently revisable observatory framework of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) applied to the territory for the Jaume I University of Castellón.

She is also a member of the Right to the City Research Team, where she focuses on the role of culture and heritage in local development, incorporating gender and decolonial perspectives.

Mercedes Gómez-Ferrer Lozano studied at the University of Valencia and got her PH D in Art History in 1995 under the direction of prof. Joaquin Berchez. She has also a degree on English Studies. She got a Master's Degree in Architectural Sciences in Conservation of Historic Towns and Buildings in the Centre d’Études de la Conservation du Patrimoine Architectural et Urbain de la Universidad of Leuven, Bélgium (1995), under the supervision of prof. Raymond Lemaire and Krista de Jonge. Professor of History of Art, she has been the coordinator of the Degree since march 2010 and is now coordinator of the Doctoral Programme in History of Art. She has directed many PH d thesis as well as Master theses. She has participated in over 8 research projects, including the National Program I+D, with an actual project of Geographies of the artistic mobility. Valencia at Modern Times, as well as in international projects as the Mencia Research Project linked to the Getty Research Institute.  Her main field of studies is linked to the artistic and architectonic activities in Spain in medieval and modern times, in several aspects as construction techniques, works of art and architecture, artists culture, travelsetc. She has taught in several universities and participated in international congresses. She got a Senior Research grant from the Fulbright Comission for a stay at Harvard University. 

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Graduate in Art History and Higher Professor of Music, she has been a research scholarship recipient from the Department of Art History of the University of Valencia thanks to the University Teacher Training Program of the Ministry of Education. In 2011 she presented her European Doctorate thesis “El fuster, definition of an office in medieval Valencia” directed by Dr. Amadeo Serra within the framework of the research project HUM-2004-5445-ARTE “Architecture under construction in the Valencian area in medieval and modern times.

She received the Senyera Prize for Scientific Research, the honourable mention in 2011, and also the Demetrio Ribes UVEG-FGV Award in its 8th Edition in 2011.

She has carried out study abroad stays at the Hertzian Library of the Max-Planck Institute in Rome and in the Laboratoire de Archéologie Médiévale Méditerranéenne of the French Center National de la Recherche Scientifique in Aix-en-Provence. In 2010 she directed the research project “Historical-artistic study of the San Vicente de la Roqueta de València building” funded by Municipal Urban Actions S.A. (Valencia), linked to the restoration heritage. In the line of history of construction research in the Middle Ages, she has participated in the project “Houses and Cities built in Earth. Conservation, significance and urban quality within the Culture 2000 Program of the European Union, and she has collaborated in conferences organized by the “Laboratoire de Medievistique Occidentale de Paris (UNIR 8589 Paris 1-CNRS).

In 2010 she directed the nationally funded research project linked to the restoration and dissemination of heritage. She has been a member of the emerging research group GV / 2018 // 117 for the realization of the R + D + i project “History and city. Social dynamism and urban transformation in Valencia from a comparative perspective (15th-18th centuries). She has been a member of the research group AICO / 2020/044 dedicated to the study of “L'espai domèstic i la cultura material en el regne medieval de València. “An interdisciplinary vision (13th-16th centuries)”. She is a member of the Erasmus + Ka2 project (0830060) “Women Legacy. Our cultural heritage for Equity.”

As a Senior Professor of Music she has focused her interests on musicological research, both in musical heritage and in the presence and significance of music in Valencia in the 15th and 16th centuries.

Currently she is a Permanent Labour Professor in the Department of Art History at University of Valencia. Her main lines of research focus on artistic production in carpentry in the medieval period; architecture and its reflection in Gothic painting; material culture and identity in the Middle Ages and its representation in the figurative arts; literature as a source for the study of Art History; the feminine legacy in artistic production.

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Mireia López Bertran is lecturer (profesor ayudante doctor) at Departament of Art History

of the Universitat de Valencia since October 2016. She was graduated in Humanities by

the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in 2000 and received her PhD degree in History from the

Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain) in 2007. She specialises in the Phoenician-Punic

archaeology, with research interests in iconography, ancient Mediterranean art, embodiment,

rituals and gender. Between 2010-2012, she was postdoctoral researcher of the Spanish

Ministry of Education and Culture-FECYT and she worked as an Honorary Research Fellow

at the Archaeology Unit of the University of Glasgow. She undertook a project called “ Craft,

rituals and gender in the Punic Mediterranean: a comparative analysis between Eivissa

and Sardinia” . She was appointed Beatriu de Pinós/Marie Curie Postdoctoral fellow at the

Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona between 2014 and 2016 and she undertook a project

entitled “ Change and continuity in the cemeteries of the Phoenician and Punic world:

funerary rituals and conceptions of the body”.

She has also been awarded with funds from the DAAD

(German Academic Exchange Service) to be visiting scholar at the Eberhard-Karl Universität

Tübingen in 2006, 2010 and 2014. She has joined the Joukowsky Institute of Archaeology and

the Ancient Wolrd (Brown University) as visiting scholar in April-May 2015.

She has been involved in several national and international I+D+ i, and, she is also a member of the research group ARSMAYA (GIUV2013-09) leaded by  Cristina Vidal (Universitat de València) that deals with the documentation, value and diffusion of cultural heritage.  

Currently, she is working on art and iconography of the Iron Age Mediterranean from a embodied and gender perspective. More specifically she is specialised in coroplastic art from a material culture perspective.

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Graduated in History, Master in History and Identities of the Western Mediterranean (15th-19th centuries) and Master in Management and Analysis of Cultural Heritage, he has focused his studies on the modern social and cultural history of Valencia. Reinforcing these studies, he has trained and works with tools for the virtualization of historical figures and heritage environments in 3D.

Currently, he works as a PIF in the GEOART group of the Department of Art History of the University of Valencia, where he is carrying out his thesis under the direction of Professor Yolanda Gil on the material culture of the noble elites in the Valencia of Philip IV.

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ENRIC OLIVARES TORRES (Algemesí, 1978) is a graduate and PhD in Art History and an assistant professor in the Department of Art History at the University of Valencia since 2022. Prior to that year, and since 2016, he was an associate professor in the same department. He also worked as a secondary school teacher at the private school Maria Auxiliadora in Algemesí from 2010 to 2022. He was a research fellow at the Museum of the City of Valencia (2002), the Museum of Fine Arts of Valencia (2008), and the Department of Art History at the University of Valencia (2003-2007).

His main research interests focus on Valencian art and ritual manifestations in the Valencian festive context, as well as studies of visual culture and Christian iconography, to which he has dedicated several monographs and articles in specialized journals. He has participated in the cataloging, assembly, and curating of exhibitions on the work of various Valencian artists from the 19th and 20th centuries, such as Juli Peris Brell, Manuel Benedito, Manuel Sigüenza, Leonardo Borràs, Juan Francés, and more recently, Josep Renau, to whom he dedicated the exhibition Josep Renau and the Time of Images (2022). He also contributed to the development of the guide for the Museum of Fine Arts of Valencia in 2008.

He is the author or co-author of the works Ceràmica devocional d’Algemesí (2005); El Bolero d'Algemesí. Cent anys del Ball de les Llauradores (2006); Temps de casinos. El Casino Lliberal d’Algemesí (2007); La colección de arte Adolfo de Azcárraga del Ayuntamiento de Valencia (2009); Iconografia de sant Jaume cavaller. El retaule major d’Algemesí (2011); Un projecte insòlit. Els relleus de Leonardo Borràs (2017); Festes, danses i processons als arxius de la Casa Insa (2018) o Els guerrers de la festa. La dansa dels tornejants en la tradició valenciana (2022), among other publications.

He is part of the research group APES (Visual Culture Studies) and is a member of the Spanish Society of Emblematics. Since 2023, he also directs the Chair of Traditional Music and Dance.

Mariángeles Pérez-Martín holds a PhD in Art History (2019, cum laude) and a Master's Degree in Advanced Hispanic Studies (2015) from the University of Valencia. She won the National Award for a Bachelor's Degree in Art History (2012) and the Extraordinary Award for a Master's Degree in Art History and Visual Culture, UVEG (2013). Her research focuses on the field of Women's History and Contemporary Art. She has published the book Ilustres e ilustradas. Académicas de Bellas Artes ss. XVIII-XIX (Tirant lo Blanch, 2020). She is Principal Investigator of the Project Art, Historiography and Feminisms (arthistFEM), University of Valencia (GIGE2022/130), funded by the Conselleria of Education, Universities and Employment, Generalitat Valenciana (2023-2024). Member (2022) and Coordinator of the TrencArt Educational Innovation Project. Trencant la Història. Images, texts and contexts for equality in the History of contemporary art (PIEE-3326371/2024), University of Valencia, academic year 2024-2025. Member of the VALuART research group. Valencia, university and art. Art, museums and visual culture, from 1750 to the present, GIUV2015-224 UVEG; and of Relecturas. Museum itineraries in a gender key, UVEG. Collaborator of the R&D project Artists in the Spanish cultural scene and their relationship with Europe, 1803-1945, University of Zaragoza (Ministry of Science, 2021-2025). She has been a member since 2018 of MAV-Women in the Visual Arts, of which she has been Territorial Coordinator (acv) (2021-2024); of the AEIHM-Spanish Association for Research in the History of Women (2016-present) and of the CEHA-Spanish Committee for the History of Art (2015-present). She is currently Head of Initiatives of Activa Cultura UV (2024).

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Profesor Titular de Universidad. Premio extraordinario de Licenciatura y de Doctorado. Investigación centrada preferentemente en el Arte Valenciano de los siglos XVII a XIX. 

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Pablo Sánchez Izquierdo (Alicante, 1990) earned his PhD in Art History at the Universitat de València (2020), where he is currently teaching since 2023. He has worked at the Museo de Bellas Artes Gravina de Alicante (2014-2015) and he has taught at the Universidad de Oviedo (2021).

He obtained a predoctoral grant (2015-2019) and a postdoctoral contract (2022-2023), both funded by the Spanish Education Ministry. He has carried out four research stays at the Universitat de Barcelona (2017), the Meadows Museum at the Southern Methodist University at Dallas (2018), at the UNED (2022-2023) and at the Real Colegio Complutense at Harvard University (2024).

His research is framed within two main fields: the urban studies, and the orientalism during the XIXth and XXth centuries.

Jorge Sebastian Lozano is Associate Professor in the Department of History of Art of the University of Valencia since 2023, in whose Master of Cultural Heritage he had been a visiting professor since 2006. He has received research grants from the Real Colegio Complutense of Harvard University, in 2017 and 2018.

His research as a historian spans a variety of fields. He devoted his dissertation to the visual representation of gender in the Spanish monarchy of the Early Modern Age, publishing several articles and essays on the topic. More recently, he has dedicated special attention to the painter Sofonisba Anguissola, through various publications and collaborations.

Additionally, he has taught multiple courses on the application of ICT to the study and dissemination of historical heritage. Since 2018 he is Technical Manager SILKNOW, a research project funded by the European Commission (programme Horizon2020).

He has also organized many exhibitions and conferences about contemporary art, mainly in Fundación Mainel.

Graduate in Geography and History MA (Universitat de Valencia, Spain, 1986)

PhD (History: Art History) (Università degli studi di Bologna, Italy, 1988)

Research Fellow Spanish College (Bologna, Italy) (1987-1988)

Researcher Spanish Ministry of Education and Science (FPI programme) at Departamento de Historia del Arte, Universitat de Valencia (1988-1991)

Assistant Professor (Profesor Asociado) at Departamento de Historia del Arte, Universitat de Valencia (March 1991- September 1996)

Associate Professor (Profesor titular) Art History, Universitat de Valencia (September 1996-September 2012)

Full Professor (Catedratico) Art History: Medieval Art, Universitat de Valencia (September 2012-present day)

Visiting professor Universitat de Girona, Università degli studi di Palermo and Universidad Politecnica de Valencia

My main research interests are Late medieval and Early Renaissance architecture, Art of the Crown of Aragon in an European context; Reception of art and identities in late medieval Iberia.

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