Fitxa persona

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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