Alejandro

Quevedo Sánchez

Alejandro Quevedo is an I3 Researcher specialist in Roman pottery at the Spanish National Research Council. His research focuses on the study of the economy of the southeast of the Iberian Peninsula and trade with North Africa in Antiquity, with emphasis on the territory of present-day Algeria, from a broad diachronic perspective. He is currently a Ramón y Cajal contract researcher at the Institute of History (CSIC), where he develops his research "Hispania and central Maghreb: revealing connectivities through Roman Material Culture" (2024-2029).

After the obtention of his European PhD (University of Murcia, 2013), A. Quevedo obtained five postdoctoral contracts in international public calls on a competitive basis that allowed him to accumulate more than 4 years of research experience abroad. He undertook research at the CNRS Laboratoire d’Excellence LabexMed, Centre Camille Jullian, Aix-en-Provence, France (2013-2015) and at the Escuela Española de Historia y Arqueología en Roma (EEHAR-CSIC, 2015-2017). In 2018, having obtained contracts from the Agencia de Ciencia y Tecnología of the Region of Murcia and the École des Hautes Études Hispaniques et Ibériques – Casa de Velázquez (declined), he joined the University of Murcia with an exterior talent attraction contract until 2021 (SECTI - Sistema Español de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación). Among his research sojourns, of particular note is that undertaken at the Berkeley Roman Material Culture Laboratory at the University of California Berkeley (United States, 2019). In 2021 he obtained a position as Assistant Professor of Archaeology at the Complutense University of Madrid where he combined his research activity with teaching (academic years 2022 and 2023) until he joined the CSIC as a Ramón y Cajal contract researcher (2024).

The implementation of new methodological focuses and the expansion of A. Quevedo international contact network during his 8-years post-doctoral experience (2013-2021) are reflected in more than 90 scientific contributions including monographs, book chapters and articles. Among his publications, as single author or with colleagues from other institutions, stand out several high impact journals such as Antiquity, African Archaeological Review, European Journal of Archaeology, ArcheoSciences, Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, The International Journal of Nautical Archaeology and international collections in Open Access such as Archaeology of the Maghreb. Alejandro Quevedo has participated in more than 30 national and international congresses and he has organised and published 2 international congresses (Spain 2013, Italy 2017). He has also directed various international seminars and excavations in several countries. The candidate has taught more than 600 hours of classes at diverse universities in Europe and the Maghreb and has participated in several Erasmus+ teaching exchanges (Switzerland, Italy, Algeria). He has supervised and continues to supervise 15 Final Degree and Final Master’s Degree projects and is co-directing 4 doctoral theses on Roman pottery at the University of Cádiz, the UNED, Complutense University of Madrid and the University of Murcia.

Since 2020 Alejandro Quevedo is Principal Researcher (PI) of several international projects: the TIPASA Project (Algeria) financed by the Ministry of Culture and the Palarq foundation; Isla del Fraile Archaeological Project (Águilas), promoted in collaboration with Águilas town council and CERAFRICS. Consumption and Exchange of Roman African Ceramics in Southeastern Spain, in collaboration with the CNRS and financed by Casa de Velázquez. In the call for Knowledge Generation 2022 projects of the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities of Spanish Government, it was awarded the TRAPHIC project. Territory, Architecture and Pottery Production: exploring relationships between Hispania and Mauretania Caesariensis (PID2022-141425NA-I00).

A fundamental part of Dr. Quevedo’s research activity is the transfer of his results to the general public through conferences, participation in events for Science popularization and collaborations in quality science magazines, short films and podcasts.