Ana B. Marín-Arroyo has taken up the Chair of Prehistory at the University of Cantabria. After defending her chair on July 17, the director of the EvoAdapta Group officially took office yesterday.
A graduate in History and PhD from the University of Cantabria (UC), Marín-Arroyo carries out her teaching and research work in the Department of Historical Sciences and is also the Vice-Dean for Postgraduate Studies at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters. She leads the EvoAdapta research group, focused on bioarchaeology and paleoclimate—lines of research she introduced at UC in 2012 upon returning with a Ramón y Cajal contract from the University of Cambridge, where she was a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow and a fellow of Darwin College. She has undertaken research stays at the universities of Leiden, University College London, and Belgrade, as well as at the Natural History Museums of Paris and London.
Marín-Arroyo has participated in more than 30 research and knowledge-transfer projects, securing over €4.5 million in funding. In 2008, she received the UC Social Council’s Research Award in the Humanities area. To date, she has published more than 150 articles—109 in journals indexed in the Journal Citation Reports—eight books, and has taken part in over 60 national and international conferences; her citation record places her among the top 2% in her field according to Scopus. She has also secured an ERC Consolidator Grant and obtained funding to attract research staff through five Marie Skłodowska-Curie (MSCA) fellowships, four Juan de la Cierva grants, three FPI grants, one Ramón y Cajal contract, and other grants from European and American foundations.
(Source: University of Cantabria.)
