Our team

Nuria Rodríguez Ortega

Nuria Rodríguez Ortega

Scientific and academic direction and general coordination

Director and Professor of Art History in the Department of Art History at the University of Malaga. Specialist in Digital Humanities from the University of Castilla La Mancha. Director of the i-ArtHis Lab research group. Coordinator of the International Network of Digital Studies on Artistic Culture ReArte.Dix. Vice-president of the Asociación Humanidades Digitales Hispánicas (HDH). Her research is part of the context of Digital Art History and artistic culture in general. She has directed numerous research projects and has an extensive bibliography.

M.ª Mar Roldán

M.ª Mar Roldán

Coordination development ontology

Associate Professor. Department of Languages and Computer Science. University of Málaga.

M.ª Luisa Díez Platas

M.ª Luisa Díez Platas

Machine learning development coordinator

Coordinator of the Degree in Industrial Organisation Engineering at UNIR. Degree in Mathematical Sciences from the UCM and PhD in Computer Science from the UPS. She has participated in different national and European research projects.

Antonio Cruces

Antonio Cruces

Responsible for application development

Associate lecturer in the Department of Art History at the University of Málaga. Graduate in Art History, he was a technician at the Direcció General de Patrimoni Cultural de la Generalitat Valenciana and coordinated the edition of its Guía de Museos (1991). He holds a Master's degree in Telematics and Telecommunication Networks and is a technician at the Consejería de Educación de la Junta de Andalucía.

Salvador Haro

Salvador Haro

Professor of Painting. He has been Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Malaga. Pablo Ruiz Picasso Research Award. Birthplace of Picasso in Malaga (2005). Author of numerous articles and monographs, including: Pintura y creación en la cerámica de Pablo Picasso, published by the Fundación Picasso de Málaga, 2007. He has curated exhibitions in various national and international museums on Picasso, artist's books and other subjects. He has written exhibition catalogues for the Louvre Museum, the Picasso Museums in Malaga, Barcelona and Paris, the Cyprus Museum and the Círculo Bellas Artes Madrid, among others. Since 1989 he has had around fifteen solo exhibitions and has participated in around a hundred group exhibitions.

Sonia Ríos Moyano

Sonia Ríos Moyano

Sonia Ríos-Moyano is a lecturer in History of Art at the University of Málaga. She belongs to the HUM 130 group (UMA), and has coordinated and collaborated in more than a dozen educational innovation projects. She was awarded the prize “For innovation, quality and good teaching practices”, Prize for the best teacher in the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters in the general category, (University of Malaga, 2019). She is the editorial secretary of the journal Boletín de Arte, co-director of the journal Eviterna and editor of the journal Proyecta 56. She has held various management positions, from academic secretary of the Department; Coordinator of the Graduate Degree in History of Art (2013-2015), as well as representative positions from 2013 to the present. She researches on topics that address multiple aspects of design from the perspective and methodology of the art historian, as well as other related topics such as advertising photography, visual communication and the publishing industry and its expansion into digital media.

Carlos Miranda Mas

Carlos Miranda Mas

His research crosses theory and contemporary artistic praxis to study modes of spatial narrativity, as an artist, author and curator interested in the temporalities of art as narrative. His work has been exhibited in a large number of Spanish and Italian galleries and art centres, and has been recognised with various awards, publications and acquisitions for public and private collections. He has organised or participated in various cycles and congresses on contemporary art production and theory, as well as in different research projects, publishing numerous articles, chapters and critical texts, or curating numerous exhibitions for different institutions. He is Professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Malaga, and Vice-Dean of Culture at the University of Malaga.

María Marcos Cobaleda

María Marcos Cobaleda

María MARCOS COBALEDA holds a PhD in Art History from the University of Granada (2010, Extraordinary Doctorate Award). A specialist in late medieval Islamic art and architecture, she has taught and researched at the UGR, the University of Almeria, the Instituto de Estudos Medievais of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, the University of Malaga, the Centre de Recherches Historiques (Paris) and the IES Abroad Granada Foundation. She was a recipient of a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship (MSCA-H2020) at the Instituto de Estudos Medievais (Lisbon) and is currently Full Professor in the Department of Art History at the UMA. Her research is based on the study of cultural relations and the diffusion of artistic elements in the Mediterranean between the 12th and 15th centuries using Geographic Information Systems (GIS), having developed several research projects, among which the ArtMedGIS Project stands out.

Antonio Castro Higueras

Antonio Castro Higueras

Antonio Castro Higueras holds a degree in Audiovisual Communication and a PhD in Communication from the University of Malaga. He is currently Professor in the Department of Audiovisual Communication and Advertising at the UMA. His line of research deals with cultural and creative industries. He is currently a member of the research team of the projects “CREAfab: Methodologies for a creative reindustrialisation of historic centres”, “Open and linked data ecosystem of the cultural subsector of artistic exhibitions: ontological formalisation, technological solutions and exploitation models for the generation of knowledge and value in the field of CCIs” of the Andalusian Research Plan (PAIDI 2020).

Iván de la Torre

Iván de la Torre

PhD in Art History from the University of Seville. He has been awarded the ‘Introduction to Research’ grant (CSIC, 1999) and the FPDI grant (Andalusian Regional Government, 2000-2004). He has worked as a lecturer at the universities of Malaga and Huelva and is currently a lecturer in Art History at the University of Seville. His lines of research revolve around contemporary art in Spain and Andalusia, the interaction between artistic practices and mythological iconographies, the methodologies and problems of art criticism and exhibition and curatorial techniques and processes.
He has been a member of the Advisory Commission of the Junta de Andalucía (2008-2009) for the Iniciarte Collection. He has been an art critic for ABC Cultural since 2001 and is an independent exhibition curator. His latest published book is Crítica de arte y comisariado de exposiciones (Madrid, Síntesis, 2020).

Belén Atencia

Belén Atencia

Belén Atencia is currently a Doctoral Assistant at the University of Málaga. During her predoctoral and postdoctoral period she carried out numerous research stays, mainly at the Bibliothèque Kandinsky du Centre National d'Art Moderne Georges Pompidou and the Bibliothèque National de Paris. During this time she graduated in Restoration of Works of Art and polychrome objects at the Atelier du Temps Passé in Paris. She has taught at the universities of Malaga and Granada, where she has taught Modern and Contemporary Art, History of Restoration and Cultural Heritage. She has published in numerous prestigious national and international scientific journals such as Goya, Revista de Arte, Ricerche di Storia dell'Arte, Research International History of Art Journal or Arte and is the author of the monograph ‘Cubism during the First World War at the Galerie L'Effort Moderne‘, published by the Tirant lo Blanch publishing house.

María Ortiz Tello

Maria Ortiz Tello

Researcher. Data recording and analysis equipment

PhD in Art History from the University of Malaga (international mention). Temporary substitute lecturer in the Department of Art History. Master's Degree in Social Developments in Artistic Culture (UMA, 2014). Master's Degree in Secondary Education, Baccalaureate, Vocational Training and Languages (UMA, 2015). Master's Degree in History and Digital Humanities (UPO). Multiple courses, highlighting the specialization course in Digital Art History.

Martín Salvachúa

Martín Salvachúa

Graduated in Computer Engineering with a major in Information Systems at the University of Malaga. Currently studying the Master's Degree in Digital Transformation of Companies oriented to the Tourism Sector, organised by the International University of Andalusia, University of Malaga, University of Almeria, and the University of Granada.

Manuela García Lirio

Manuela García Lirio

International PhD in History and Arts from the University of Granada with the thesis “Museums and university art collections in the Ibero-American context” (2021). With a double theoretical-practical training, she has a degree in Fine Arts (2009) and a degree in Art History (2015). Since 2015, she has been linked as a researcher to the HUM-806 Group Andalucía- América: Cultural and Artistic Heritage of the Department of History of Art at the University of Granada. She is Honorary Visiting Professor of the Master's and PhD programme at the Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas (Mexico).

Leticia Crespillo Marí

Leticia Crespillo Marí

Researcher. Data recording and analysis equipment

PhD in Art History from the University of Malaga (international mention). Temporary substitute lecturer in the Department of Art History. Founder and co-director of the Revista Universitaria de Humanidades, Arte y Cultura Eviterna. Master's Degree in Teaching in Secondary, Baccalaureate and Vocational Training in the field of Social Sciences and Social Sciences.

Bárbara Romero Ferrón

Bárbara Romero Ferrón

Postgraduate researcher. Data recording and analysis team

Graduate in Art History from the University of Malaga. Digital Humanites Specialist at the University of Utrecht. Currently working on her doctoral thesis at the University of Western Ontario (Canada).

Ángel Lumbreras Fernández

Ángel Lumbreras Fernández

Postgraduate student. Data recording and analysis equipment

Graduated in Art History (2022) and Advertising and PR (2014) at the University of Malaga. She has completed the Master's Degree in Digital Marketing Management (2016 - 2017), as well as the Master's Degree in Social Developments in Artistic Culture (2022 - 2023) at the same university. She is currently working on her doctoral thesis at the University of Málaga.

Adriana Janssens Gómez

Adriana Janssens Gómez

Postgraduate student. Project "Alfredo Viñas Gallery"."

Graduate in Art History from the University of Malaga. He is currently studying for a master's degree in Digital Humanities at the UNED.

Pau Rausell Köster

Pau Rausell Köster

Scientific consultant

Economist and lecturer in the Department of Applied Economics at the Universitat de València. Director of the Research Area in Economics of Culture and Tourism (Econcult).

Teresa Sauret Guerrero

Teresa Sauret Guerrero

Scientific consultant

Professor Emeritus of Art History at the University of Malaga. Her research interests include 19th century art, iconography, museology, heritage and gender studies. Since 1991 she has been the PI of 6 projects of the National Research Plan, in which she has innovated methodologies for the study of Heritage and Movable Goods, and has delved into models of territorial identity and Gender Studies.