I am an ICREA Research Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, where I coordinate two research groups: CGyM (Research Group on Colonialism, Gender and Materialities) and GRASEG (Research Group in Social Archaeology and Gender Studies). I began my research at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, where I received my PhD in 1993. I was subsequently appointed by the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, the University of Cambridge, and the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. I have been honorary research fellow and visiting professor at different centres including UCSC, Northwestern, the National Taiwan University, the German Archaeological Institute, the University of Oslo, and the University of Sydney. I have received several grants from the Catalan and the Spanish government, the European Union, and the Palarq Foundation. I was funding member and co-chair of AGE (Archaeology and Gender in Europe) for the period 2009-2015, and I have resumed this role for the period 2024–2027.

I am an archaeologist with broad interests in social and theoretical archaeology, including the Archaeology of Colonialism, the Archeology of Globalization, and the Archaeology of Gender. I am investigating the consequences that Jesuit missions had on native CHamoru as PI in the ERC AdGrant MaGMa. My research challenges conceptual dichotomies among disciplines and within disciplines (i.e. prehistoric and historic archaeology), and addresses issues of high scientific and social relevance such as the construction of gender and the value of dynamics related to cultural continuity, cooperation, care, and interdependence to human societies. I also serve as the scientist in charge for two ERC Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, supervise seven PhD students. I believe that research must contribute to a more equitable and sustainable future, which in my case involves diluting divides between popular and academic understandings of colonialism and gender.