Margarita Díaz-Andreu has worked as an ICREA Research Professor since 2012, when she left Durham University and moved to the UB. Her academic career is characterized by a high number of publications (8 books and special issues in the last 5 years, and many articles), the organization of many conferences or sessions in connection to the projects she has led. In 2023 she has led four projects: the ERC Artsoundscapes; the JPI-JHEP Deep Cities, the R+D+i ArqueólogAs and the Palarq Baja California projects. She has also tutored 4 personal grants

In 2023 all the grants sustained a total of 12 positions. Her students from Barcelona now work in prestigious heritage places (Casa Batlló), have permanent jobs in universities (Durham) or have continued their academic careers (Bordeaux, Verona, PUC Chile). As a researcher Margarita Díaz-Andreu has contributed to fostering knowledge by organising and participating in conferences and engaging in outreach (blogs, podcasts, radio and newspapers).

The three main research areas in which Díaz-Andreu has been active and has led research groups in the last few years are still in place. Her work in rock art and archaeoacoustics is highly innovative and she leads an ERC interdisciplinary group of archaeologists, acoustic engineers, ethnomusicologists and psychologists. For this project, in 2023 fieldwork was undertaken in Baja California and Ibiza. Publications for the ERC project (11 and 1 special issue) have dealt with fieldwork in Russia and Spain. Much effort has also gone into including raw data into the CORA Repositori (9). She has also published on the history of archaeology (4). The running of the ArqueólogAs project has continued with now about 193 biographies of women pioneers on the project’s webpage. She is leading investigator in all her three research groups of academics and students (ArqueólogAs, Artsoundscapes and GAPP/Deep Cities).