Bio

I am a Ramón y Cajal (Senior) Research Fellow at CENIEH, in Burgos, Spain. I have previously worked for 7.5 years (2009-2016) as Research Scientist and Head of the ESR dating laboratory at CENIEH, before spending 4 years (2016-2020) as an ARC Future Fellow in the Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution (ARCHE) at Griffith University. Between 2014 and 2016 I was the recipient of a Marie Curie International Outgoing fellowship. I received my doctorate in Prehistory from the Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle (Paris, France) in November 2008.

I am a Quaternary geochronologist specialising in Electron Spin Resonance (ESR) and Uranium-series dating methods. Over the last fifteen years, I have developed an original research profile which combines methodological as well as dating application studies in geo-archaeological contexts. So far, an important part of my investigation has been dedicated to the development and application of the ESR method to Early Pleistocene hominin sites in Europe, by dating either fossil teeth (via the combined uranium-series/electron spin resonance (US-ESR) dating approach) or optically bleached sedimentary quartz grains. The results of this work have contributed to refine the age of some of the oldest archaeological sites in Southern Europe and Northern Africa (e.g., Atapuerca Gran Dolina, Barranco León, Fuente Nueva-3, Vallparadís EVT7, Ain Boucherit). I have also recently participated to the direct dating of Homo naledi teeth from the Rising Star complex (South Africa) and of the oldest Homo sapiens outside Africa found at Misliya Cave (Israel). My current Future Fellowship project aims to evaluate the timing and synchronicity of the Mode 1 and Mode 2 settlements across the Mediterranean by building more robust chronologies for Early Pleistocene sites located in non-volcanic context, a major challenge in Quaternary Geochronology and Mediterranean archaeology.

PUBLICATION/CITATION SUMMARY

122 publications in peer-reviewed journals (+8 submitted), 9 in books or monographs, 2 Non peer-reviewed articles, 6 Refereed papers and 1 Technical Report.
51 first-authored abstracts and >70 other (non 1st-author) contributions to Conferences.
Scopus (search 04/01/2024): Citations = 3237 (by 1705 docs); h-index = 34. Scopus author ID: 17343294500.
Google scholar (search 04/01/2024), since 2019: Citations = 3136, h-index = 29, i10 = 71. Link
Publons (search 22/08/2022): > 70 reviews; Link to profile

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

2020 (since) | Ramón y Cajal (Senior) Research Fellow, Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), Burgos, Spain.

2016-2020 | ARC Future Fellow, Senior Research Fellow, Australian Research Centre of Human Evolution, Environmental Futures Research Institute, Griffith University, Australia.

Oct. 2014-Oct. 2016| Marie Curie fellow (International Outgoing Fellowship). Year 1: Research School of Earth Sciences, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia; Year 2: Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), Burgos, Spain.

2009-2016 |ESR dating group leader. Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), Burgos, Spain.

2004-2007| Doctoral Fellowship from the French Ministry of National Education, Research and Technology. Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris, France.

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS

2011| PhD degree approved by the University of Burgos (Spain).

2009| Degree of Radioactive installation supervisor. Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, Spain.

2008| PhD Thesis, speciality prehistory. Department of Prehistory, Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle (Paris, Fance). Thesis title: Evaluation du potentiel de la méthode de datation par Résonance de Spin Electronique (ESR) appliquée aux gisements du Pléistocène inférieur: étude des gisements d’Orce (bassin de Guadix-Baza, Espagne) et contribution à la connaissance des premiers peuplements de l’Europe. Supervisors: C. Falguères and H. de Lumley. Evaluation: très honorable.

2004| D.E.A. (= Master 2) « Quaternaire : Géologie, Paléontologie Humaine, Préhistoire ». Department of Prehistory, Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle (Paris, France).

2003| Maîtrise (= Master 1) « Sciences de la Terre et de l’Univers, option Géologie ». Université Paul Sabatier (Toulouse, France).

Last update: 15/02/2024

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