Spanish National Research Council (CSIC),
Milà i Fontanals Institute for Humanities Research (IMF),
Human Ecology and Archaeology (HUMQANE),
C/Egipcíaques, 15, 08001 Barcelona, Spain
jjgarciagranero@imf.csic.es
Biography and bibliography:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Juan-Jose-Garcia-Granero
Juan José García-Granero completed a PhD in Prehistoric Archaeology at the University of Barcelona in 2015. After working as a postdoctoral research assistant at the University Pompeu Fabra (2016) and IMF-CSIC (2016-2017), he was granted a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship at the School of Archaeology, University of Oxford (2017-2019) to explore culinary practices in the Neolithic/Bronze Age Aegean through experimental and microbotanical research. In 2019 he was granted a Juan de la Cierva Incorporación fellowship at IMF-CSIC, which he held between 2020-2022, and in 2022 he was granted a Ramón y Cajal fellowship also at IMF-CSIC, which he has held since January 2023. He is currently an Affiliated Researcher at the Department of Archaeology, University of Kerala (India), and he co-directs the Kachchh Archaeological Project (India).
He has published 30 articles in journals indexed in Scopus, six articles not indexed in Scopus, eight book chapters, one entry in the Encyclopaedia of Archaeology and seven scientific reports, which have been cited around 800 times according to Google Scholar (h-index: 16) and around 500 times according to Scopus (h-index: 13). Moreover, he have organised international conferences and workshops, sessions in renown conferences and multiple seminar series, and he is currently organising the next International Meeting on Phytolith Research, the most important conference on phytolith studies that will take place at IMF-CSIC in September 2025, and a workshop that will gather the most renowned archaeological starch specialists in Leiden (The Netherlands) in August 2024. He has delivered >60 oral presentations/invited talks and 18 posters in international conferences, meetings and workshops held in Europe, Asia and America, and he has delivered 15 invited seminars in international advanced schools, including the Universities of Cambridge, Oxford and Stanford. He has secured >1M€ to conduct multiple aspects of my research (as PI) and he has participated (as co-Investigator or team member) in nationally- and internationally-funded projects totalling >3M€. He is currently the PI of three ongoing research projects to conduct archaeological research in South Asia and the Mediterranean, co-PI of a project to conduct archaeological fieldwork in Puerto Rico and co-Investigator of a project funded by the Danish Ministry of Culture.