Yolanda Gil Saura (1972) is a full professor attached to the Departament d'Història de l'Art of the Universitat de València where she has been teaching since 1999. She has been the academic secretary of the department, coordinator of the Degree in Art History and Head of the Art History Department. Secretary and editor-in-chief of  Ars Longa journal.She has been part of the Board of the Museum of Fine Arts of Valencia.She is currently coordinator of Master's Degree in History of Art and Visual Culture. 
 He got his PhD under the direction of prof. Joaquín Bérchez about baroque architecture in the Valencian territories of the ancient diocese of Tortosa. Since then his research has focused on the art and architecture of the Spanish Modern Age especially the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He has taken an interest in architecture at the crossroads of Valencian, Catalan and Aragonese territories and has subsequently turned his attention to the world of nobiliary collecting. He studied the cultural presence of the Austrian exiles in Vienna after the War of Succession, a topic on which he continues to work and that led him to make a stay at the University of Vienna. Ongoing research focuses on the viceregal court of Valencia and cultural exchanges with the Italian field, which has led him to make stays and give lectures at the universities of Palermo, Cagliari and Venice. His research has been framed uninterruptedly in funded research projects led first by Professor Joaquín Bérchez and then by Professor Mercedes Gómez-Ferrer. She is part of the  group GIUV2013-055 Art and Architecture of the Modern Age-GEOART and is IP of the research project PID2021-126266NB-100 Living nobly in early modern Valencia, a court of the Hispanic Monarchy.

Sergi Doménech García (Carlet, 1982) es doctor en Historia del Arte por la Universitat de València (cum laude) con mención internacional. Obtuvo una beca predoctoral en el Departamento de Historia del Arte de la UVEG. Ha sido investigador en la Cátedra Demetrio Ribes e investigador de plantilla en el Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.  Ha realizado diversas estancias de investigación en diversos centros internacionales –entre ellos en el Warburg Institute, Londres– y ha sido profesor invitado en varias universidades de Iberoamérica. Es miembro de la Sociedad Española de Emblemática y secretario de la revista Imago que esta sociedad edita. En la actualidad es Director del Departament d'Història de l'Art de la Universitat de València.

Ha dedicado parte de su investigación al estudio del arte iberoamericano, aunque no de manera excluyente. Sus investigaciones se centran en el análisis e interpretación de la imagen. Su principal línea de investigación es el estudio de las “prácticas, ingenios persuasivos y retórica visual de la imagen religiosa en el periodo barroco”, así como la continuidad de prácticas y expectativas de la imagen sagrada en la modernidad. Reflejo de esto último es su línea de investigación sobre “Imagen, religión y poder en la España contemporánea”.

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. 

CRISTINA VIDAL LORENZO is PhD in Geography and History from the Complutense University of Madrid, Full Professor in the Department of Art History at the University of Valencia, and Corresponding Member of the German Archaeological Institute, her professional career, both in research and academic management, is structured around three main areas: Pre-Hispanic art and archaeology, the conservation of cultural heritage, and development actions linked to the enhancement and public appreciation of heritage. These fields have been the focus of several competitive research projects continuously directed by her since 2004.

The first of these areas began in 1988 with her participation in the Spanish Archaeological Mission in Mexico and has remained closely connected to the study of Maya culture through various projects in Mexico and Guatemala. In the latter country, she directed the La Blanca Archaeological Project, Petén, Guatemala (https://lablanca.artemaya.es/), between 2004 and 2019, funded through competitive public calls from the Spanish Ministry of Culture and other institutions. Within this project, she integrated the other research lines mentioned, a work that continues to this day. For this endeavor, she received the “Best Practices in Site Conservation” award granted in 2013 by the Archaeological Institute of America.

In recent years, she has promoted the application of new techniques and technologies for the study, documentation, conservation, and dissemination of cultural heritage. Since 2016, she has directed the Prometeo-MAYATECH project (https://mayatech.artemaya.es/), funded by the Generalitat Valenciana through three Prometeo projects (2016–2019, 2020–2023, and 2024–2028) within the Program for Excellence Research Groups.

The results of her research are reflected in numerous scientific publications on iconography and cultural heritage, as well as in more than one hundred presentations at international conferences. She has curated international exhibitions devoted to Maya culture and organized multiple academic meetings in Valencia, including the 23rd European Maya Conference–WAYEB (November 2018), focused on Women and Maya Culture. The gender perspective also represents a significant line of research developed within the ARSMAYA Research Group, which she has coordinated since 2004 (https://www.uv.es/arsmaya).

Her commitment to knowledge transfer to the productive sector has materialized in activities aimed at the preservation and enhancement of cultural heritage, particularly through excavation, restoration, and conservation campaigns at the archaeological sites of La Blanca and Chilonché (Petén, Guatemala) and Uxmal (Yucatán, Mexico), as well as through the cooperation projects she has directed. Also noteworthy is the construction of the La Blanca Interpretation Center (2009), in which local community members actively participated.

Since joining the University of Valencia in 1996, she has taught undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral courses, inaugurating the academic line of Pre-Columbian Art History, consolidated through numerous bachelor’s and master’s theses, doctoral dissertations, and the training of early-career researchers. She has also taught at various European and American universities and undertaken research stays at prestigious institutions, including CIRMA (La Antigua Guatemala), the Peabody Museum at Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania Museum, the National Museum of Cambodia, the National Archaeological Museum (Madrid), CNRS–Paris I, the Université de la Sorbonne, the University of California, Berkeley, and Yale University. She is also Co-Director of the journal Pasajes de pensamiento contemporáneo.