Fitxa persona

BA History in Universitat de València (2010), MA Archaeology (2012) and MA in Teaching Training (2013). International PhD in Mediterranean Prehistory and Archaeology with the dissertation: Caves as ritual spaces in Iberian Iron Ages: the cases of Kelin, Edeta and Arse (2017).

She has also developed her research abroad: Archéologie des Sociétés Méditerranéennes (UMR5140) (Montpellier, France) (2010-2011), Department of Archaeology (Durham University, UK) (2015, 2019-2020), School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts (Merced, UC, USA) (2016), as well as a yearly postdoctoral research stay in Durham University (POSTD-Generalitat Valenciana-European Social Fund Fellow, 2019-2020).

Her research is focused on the Iberian ritual caves (6^th c.- 1^st c. BC.). She analyzes not only the artefacts, the context and the sacred landscape, but also the sensorial and emotional experiences personalized on these natural scenarios, considering their importance across time, their memories and the ancestors related to them. Since 2018, she has co-directed archaeological interventions at Cueva del Sapo (Chiva, València) and, since 2024, at Cueva Merinel (Bugarra, València). She was the Principal Investigator of the project "Deep in Caves: Iberian Rituality in Context" (CIGE2022/094: Emerging Research Groups - GVA). Currently, she is co-Principal Investigator of the project "STALAC-RITE: Spectroscopic Analysis for the Characterization and Provenance of Speleothems in Edetan Iberian Ritual Contexts (6th-1st centuries BC) - València" (Fundación PALARQ).

Research Interests:

• Cave archaeology
• Iberian Iron Age
• Landscape Archaeology
• Iberian Material Culture
• Rituals
• Sensorial archaeology

*Coordinator of the Teaching Innovation Project: METARQ (since 2020) and the Consolidated Teaching Innovation Group METARQ (since 2023).