Visiting researchers

David Martín López

Universidad de Granada, Spain
March

Biographic note
David Martín López holds a European doctoral degree in the History of Art from the University of Granada (2010), where he is currently a professor in the Department of the History of Art. His doctoral degree thesis with the title of: “Estética masónica, arquitectura y Urbanismo siglos XVIII-XX”, was awarded the Extraordinary Prize of the University of Granada. In addition to internships in the United Kingdom and in France, he was a Post-doc Grant Holder of the Spanish Ministry of Culture at NOVA University , in the Institute of History of Art (2011-2013).

David Peterson

Universidad de Burgos, Spain
March

Research as part of a project on persistences and continuities of the Visigothic presence during the Islamic period

E-mail
dpeterson@ubu.es

Gustavo Fernández Riva

CONICET – Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Buenos Aires, Argentina
September

E-mail
gustavo.fernandez.riva@uni-heidelberg.de

Orri Vésteinsson

University of Iceland, Island 
September-December

Biographic note 
Orri Vésteinsson (born in 1967) professor of archaeology at the University of Iceland. He studied at the Institute of Archaeology of London (MA, 1991) and history at the University of Iceland (BA, 1990) and at University College London (PhD, 1996). He is the author of the monograph The Christianization of Iceland. Priests, Power and Social Change (OUP 2000) and has published various works and articles on the Viking Era and the medieval history and archaeologies of the North Atlantic.

E-mail
orri@hi.is