I am an archaeologist, with a PhD in Geography and History (1995) for the University of Barcelona. From 1996 to 1998 I was a postdoctoral researcher at the CNRS (Lattes, France). From 1999 to 2003 I had different postdoctoral positions at the University of Barcelona where I combined research with teaching tasks and spent research periods in France. In 2004, I took a position at the ICAC. I joined ICREA in 2006 as a researcher and became an ICREA Research Professor in 2010. I currently lead the Protohistory Archaeology team at the ICAC. I have conducted fieldwork in Spain, France, and Tunisia. I made stays as an invited researcher at the Universities of Chicago and Montpellier. In 2013, I received a Positive Assessment from the AQU Catalunya (Catalan Evaluation Agency) to apply for a University Full Professor position. Since 2019 I have been Academic Supervisor of the Advanced Training Area at the ICAC. Since 2023 I am a member of Institut d'Estudis Catalans.

My research's general goal is to study the processes that transformed the local-scale groups of the Late Bronze Age into the complex societies of the Western Mediterranean Iron Age. Within this general goal, I deal with more specific topics such as urban planning, architecture, household organisation, domestic activities, and funerary practices and rituals. Since 2020 I have been conducting the TRANSCOMB Project, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, renewed in 2023 (TRANSCOMB-2). Within this project, an interdisciplinary methodology for studying fire installations in the Iron Age societies of the Western Mediterranean has been implemented. It integrates different techniques from Bioarchaeology and Geoarchaeology, together with Experimental Archaeology and Ethnoarchaeology, to gather information on the use of fuels, natural resources management, daily activities related to fire, and household organization.