I am an archaeologist working on 1st-2nd millennium AD West African kingdoms and their relationship with Europe. My research explores two different strands: the landscape organization of West African Kingdoms (with a focus on the Mali Empire and its successor states, Kaabu in particular), and their impact on European history. My academic journey started at the University of Oxford, where I read Archaeology and Anthropology (BA) followed by an MA in African Archaeology and an Archaeology PhD from University College London. After a Teaching Fellowship at the UCL Institute of Archaeology, I obtained a MSCA Fellowship at the Institute of Heritage Sciences of the Spanish National Research Council (INCIPIT-CSIC), where I stayed until my transfer to València University thanks to a Ramón y Cajal Fellowship. I am currently directing various excavation and survey projects in the southern Senegambia and have a secondary research line into Afro-European objects.