Meet our team
Patricia Murrieta-Flores
Principal investigator
Professor of Digital Humanities at Lancaster University and Director of AI Research in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Specialist in historical archaeology of New Spanish Mexico, he researches Geographic Information Sciences and develops Machine Learning techniques for history and archaeology, including NLP and Computer Vision.
Rodrigo Vega Sánchez
Senior Researcher
Rodrigo is a Mexican archaeologist, who specialises in Spanish colonial navigation, early modern New Spain palaeography, and digital humanities.
Mariana Favila Vázquez
Co-Investigator
Mariana has a PhD in Mesoamerican Studies from UNAM (Mexico). She is currently professor-researcher in Ethnohistory at CIESAS, Mexico City Unit.
Flor Trejo Rivera
Researcher
Maritime historian and researcher at the Subdirectorate of Underwater Archeology, INAH (Mexico). Her research areas include transatlantic navigation (16th-17th centuries), the Spanish Fleets system, daily life on board and naval accidents.
Francisco Cruz Ríos
Researcher
Graduated in Archeology from the National School of Anthropology and History in Mexico City. At the end of his studies, he became interested in early modern Spanish palaeography and historical archives, specialties in which he has worked in recent years. He is also interested in the philosophy of the native languages of Mexico and ancient legends.
Julieta Flores-Muñoz
researcher
Researcher at the Economic Research and Teaching Centre (CIDE) and the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN) in Mexico City. With a background in Economics and Archaeology, her research focuses on economic history, oral narratives, landscape, spatial practices, materiality, trade, theory of value, and indigenous archaeology.
Alexander Sánchez Díaz
Researcher and Developer
Graduated in Computer Science in Havana, specialist in Parallel and Distributed Computing, and PhD in Computer Science from the University of Alicante. Researcher in AI and NLP, consultant in Business Intelligence, Big Data and Blockchain, and associate professor in the Department of Computer Languages and Systems of the University of Alicante.
Leonardo Álvarez
Developer
I am interested in being part of multidisciplinary projects that allow me to expand knowledge and promote the use of new technological tools, just as I am passionate about learning about different cultures, traditions, food and the incredible places this world has to offer.
Edna Brito Ramos
Collaborator
Graduated in History from UNAM, I am a specialist in the viceregal era in Mexico, paleography and diplomacy. I teach Paleography 1 and 2 courses in the Ethnohistory program at ENAH and I work as a research fellow at COLMEX.
Ricardo Valadez Vázquez
Collaborator
I am a Historian specialized in the analysis of chronicles and pictographic documents of Mesoamerican tradition. I am also interested in cartography, digital humanities and literature.
Alejandro Lovera Limberg
Collaborator
Archaeologist with honorable mention from the Universidad Veracruzana, MA in Human Geography from El Colegio de Michoacán, and PhD candidate in History at El Colegio de San Luis. Topics of interest: Historical geography, spatial analysis, and digital humanities.
Alba Comino Comino
Collaborator
PhD in Archaeology specialized in Cultural Studies and Digital Humanities. She explores the construction of historical narratives, emphasizing the role of women and the relationship between memory and material culture in identity processes. She is currently developing the REWIND project (MSCA Grant Agreement No. 101063220) at the NOVA University of Lisbon.
Erika Aceves Escobedo
Collaborator
Teacher of Classical Nahuatl, she studied Graphic Arts and Classical Nahuatl at the Escuela Normal Superior de México. She currently studies the Huasteca variant of Veracruz.
Lidia M. Camacho Gámez
Collaborator
I am a Mexican historian interested in colonial urban planning and the environment of the 16th century in the Americas. I have developed ways of analyzing urban space through the different uses of language, the latter being one of my greatest interests.
Paloma Vargas Montes
Collaborator
She is a research professor at Tecnologico de Monterrey (SNII 1). She holds doctoral degrees in History from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris and in Hispanic Literature from the University of Navarra. In 2024, she published Indigenous Epistemes of the Borderlands, Arte Publico Press Digital, University of Houston.
Carolina Sacristán Ramírez
Collaborator
She is a research professor at Tecnológico de Monterrey. She holds a PhD in Art History from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, specialising in the Viceregal period. She is also a harpsichordist, having graduated from the Conservatorio di Musica di Vicenza “Arrigo Pedrollo”.
Laura Moreno Solís
Collaborator
I am a historian specialising in the living and working conditions of New Spanish crews. Recently, I have worked as a palaeographer. I speak English and Catalan, and I have a keen interest in underwater archaeology, which has led me to take up diving. I am currently pursuing a master's degree in Modern and Contemporary History at the Dr José María Luis Mora Research Institute.
Guillaume Candela
Collaborator
Historian specialized in native peoples of the colonial Río de la Plata (16th-17th centuries). Senior researcher of the Native Bound-Unbound project. Expert in paleography and digital humanities. He has published on Tupi-Guarani, colonialism, women and the impact of colonization on indigenous communities. PhD in Hispanic and Latin American Studies from the Université de la Sorbonne.
Arturo Loyola
Collaborator
PhD in History from El Colegio de México. His research and publications focus on the military and commercial aspects of transatlantic navigation and the shaping of American frontiers during the 17th century. Other areas of interest include paleography, Social Network Analysis, and Microhistory.
Adriana Lazcano
Collaborator
I am a historian from FES Acatlán, UNAM. I research the manufacturing techniques and materiality of easel painting, collaborating on conservation projects of New Spain's historical patrimony. I am currently a research fellow at El Colegio de San Luis, focusing on paleographic transcriptions (16th-18th centuries), another passion of mine.
Carlos Francisco López Ramírez
Collaborator
I studied Computer Science at UNAM and enjoy learning new technologies. In recent years I have worked as a digital artist. I was awarded a scholarship at Tecnológico de Monterrey to learn Unreal Engine 5. I recently taught a module of 3D Modeling and introduction to Unreal Engine 5 in the Introduction to Digital Humanities course taught at CIESAS.
Edgar Allan Lara Paredes
Collaborator
Graduate in History, from the UACM, MA in regional studies from the Mora Institute and PhD candidate in History from CIDE (Mexico). His lines of research include the History of southern Mexico City, History of water, History of Urbanization, and Digital Humanities.
Mitzy Quinto-Cortés
Collaborator
Graduated in Restoration from the ENCRyM-INAH and a Master's degree in Maritime Archaeology from the University of Southampton. Investigates risk management for significant sites and the conservation of underwater heritage in situ. PhD candidate in conservation and archaeology from the Institute of Archaeology of University College London.
J. Ezequiel Romero-Chávez
Collaborator
Graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in Restoration from INAH, Mexico, with experience in management, teaching, research and conservation of cultural heritage, especially metal. He has worked at the National Museum of Anthropology, the National Museum of Interventions, Franz Mayer Museum, and received the INAH Paul Coremas Award for the restoration of the equestrian sculpture of Charles IV ("El Caballito") de Tolsá in 2018.
SCIENTIFIC ADVISORS
Nicolas Ciarlo, CONICET, Argentina
Guadalupe Pinzon Rios, UNAM, México
Baltazar Brito, BNAH, México
Paul Rayson, Lancaster University, UK
Nicholas Radburn, Lancaster University, UK
Alexandra Biar, ArchAm CNRS, France
Diego Jimenez Badillo, INAH, México