Allard Mees

Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum Mainz

Allard Mees is an archaeologist at the Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum Mainz, where he is head of the scientific IT department. He has been running major European funded archaeological database projects on Roman ship archaeology and maintains a long term European digital research framework on Roman ceramics. As a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in London, his research focuses on the Roman economy, statistics and cultural astronomy. He studied in Utrecht, worked at archaeological institutes in Budapest and Zürich and received his PhD in Freiburg im Breisgau.

Elisa de Sousa

UNIARQ, Faculdade de Letras
University of Lisbon

Elisa de Sousa is a professor at the University of Lisbon, attached to the Centro de Arqueologia da Universidade de Lisboa (UNIARQ). Her main research interests are the transition from the Late Bronze Age to the Iron Age on the Portuguese coast, as well as the transition from the Iron Age to the Roman Republican Period. She has several national and international publications on these topics in prestigious journals.

Andrés M. Adroher Auroux

Department of Prehistory and Archaeology
University of Granada

Andrés M. Adroher is Professor of Archaeology in the Department of Prehistory and Archaeology at the University of Granada. From 1988 to 2002 he joined the CNRS collaborating with the Lattes laboratory in the excavations of the ancient port of Lattara (France). He has directed numerous excavation projects in Iberian and Roman sites such as the archaeological sites of Mas Castellar de Pontós (Gerona), Basti (Baza, Granada). He has participated in several excavation projects abroad, especially in Portugal, Tunisia and Morocco. He has also participated and organized numerous international congresses, conferences and courses throughout the Mediterranean geography, and is the creator of the conference format known as Sofa Archaeology. His lines of research analyze the pre-Roman societies in the Iberian Peninsula of the cities of Upper Andalusia. One of his main contributions has been the development of a recording system for field and laboratory studies (SIRA). Currently he is also collaborating with the UNACIFOR University in Siguatepeque (Honduras) in the design of a degree in Archaeology and with the project of archaeological excavations in Teotihuacan in Mexico.

Carlos Rodríguez Rellán

Department of Prehistory and Archaeology
University of Granada

PhD in History from the University of Santiago de Compostela. He has been a Fernand Braudel-IFER fellow (2015) of the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme (France) and MEC-Fulbright Visiting Scholar (2012-2014) at the School of Human Evolution and Social Change of the Arizona State University (USA) and pre-doctoral fellow of the "María Barbeito Program" of the Xunta de Galicia. Specialist in lithic industry of Recent Prehistory His main areas of interest are the study of lithic industry, experimental archaeology and open-air rock art, a field in which he has been responsible for several survey and excavation campaigns. He has carried out the study and graphic reproduction of more than 60 rock art sites in different parts of Galicia. His most recent fields of interest are related to Geographic Information Systems, agent-based models and their application in archaeology.

However, in this IDSS he will bring us Artificial Intelligence, machine learning and the possibilities it gives to the study of ceramics.