Affiliation: University of Barcelona
Keywords: Prehistory, chert, human mobility, geochemistry, mountain environments
Full profile: Marta Sánchez de la Torre is an associate professor at the Department of History and Archeology of the University of Barcelona and a researcher at the Seminari d’Estudis i Recerques Prehistòriques (SERP) and the Institute of Archeology of the University of Barcelona (IAUB). She holds a doctorate in Prehistory from this same university (2015) and has worked as a postdoctoral researcher at this same center (2020-2023) and previously at the University of Zaragoza (2018-2019) and the Université Bordeaux Montaigne, in France (2015-2017). She has also done research stays at the Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès, in France, the Université de Montréal, in Canada and the Università degli Studi di Trento, in Italy.
Her main line of research focuses on the study of the mobility of prehistoric societies through the geochemical analysis of lithic materials. As an archaeologist, since 2013 she is co-directing archaeological interventions in prehistoric sites in the NE peninsula.
She is the author of more than 45 scientific articles and in 2022 she received funding through a Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) to investigate human mobility in the Pyrenean Mountains during the last glacial episode.
In 2023 became Full member of the Young Academy of Spain and in 2022 was also selected as member of the Platform Scientific and Innovative from the Unity of Women and Science of the Spanish Ministry of Science.