Dr María MARCOS COBALEDA obtained her PhD in 2010 at the University of Granada (UGR, Spain) with the Doctoral Thesis “Los almorávides: territorio, arquitectura y artes suntuarias”, honoured with the highest qualification “Summa Cum Laude” and awarded with the PhD Extraordinary Award (2015). She has worked as assistant teacher and researcher in the University of Granada (2010-2012), in the University of Almería (2015-2016) and as associated teacher in the International Foundation “Institute for the International Education of Students” (IES Abroad Granada, 2010, 2014-2016). In 2012 she obtained a Postdoctoral grant from the UGR to work during 2 years at the Laboratoire de Démographie et d’Histoire Sociale (LaDéHiS – CRH – EHESS, Paris). During this period, she started her training with Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and the management of the ArcGIS program. Currently, she has been granted with a Marie Skłodowska Curie Individual Fellowship from the Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Program of the European Research Council to develop the research project Analysis of the Artistic Exchanges in the Medieval Mediterranean between 12th and 15th Centuries through the Geographical Information Systems (GIS): A Critical Review of “Centre” and “Peripheries” (ArtMedGIS Project) at the Instituto de Estudos Medievais (IEM – FCSH/UNL, Lisbon).

Dr María MARCOS COBALEDA is very interested in the international dissemination of her research. Beyond her more than 40 publications, she has participated in more than 30 International Conferences and she has been invited to impart numerous lectures in national and international courses and seminars. On the other hand, moreover her international research stays in Morocco (6 months) and Paris (2 years), she has organized 2 International Workshops (Paris, 2014) about the application of the GIS to the Humanities and Social Sciences and about al-Andalus. Currently, and linked to the ArtMedGIS Project, she is organizing an International Seminar with the Escuela de la Alhambra (Council of the Alhambra and Generalife, Granada, Spain) about the legacy of the Almoravids, to be held in Granada in October 2016. Otherwise, she has participated in 6 R&D or similar projects and she is member of some specialized international research networks, as SNAP Project and The Mediterranean Seminar. Among other honors, she has received the PhD Extraordinary Award (UGR, 2015) and the Excellence Teaching Mention (UGR, 2011). Thereby, she has continued with her training in other fields. In this context, she achieved the Advanced Level in Arabic Language (2010), the Intermediate Level (B2) in French Language (2013) and the First Certificate in English from the University of Cambridge (2002).