Editors

About the Editor

Juan A. Barceló is Associate Professor at the Department of Prehistory at the University Autónoma de Barcelona (Spain), teaching and doing research on statistical issues in Archaeology for 20 years. He is also founder and director of the Quantitative Archaeology Lab and co-founder of the newly created Laboratory for the Computer Simulation of Social and Historical Dynamics, also at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain). He has been named President of the Spanish Association of Computer Applications in Archaeology, and represents Spain in the International Association on Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology International Society, and Commission IV Data Management and Mathematics of the Union International for Prehistoric and Protohistoric sciences.

He has participated in numerous international committees for the evaluation of advanced research. As an internationally recognized researcher, he is specialized in the development of archaeological techniques and the theory of the discipline. He has developed methodological applications, especially in topics such as Spatial Analysis, Statistical Multidimensional Analysis, Computer Assisted Visualization and Artificial Intelligence, subjects on which he has published extensively. As an archaeologist, he has participated in excavations in Spain, Portugal, Italy, Syria, Nicaragua and Argentina. Nowadays, he is the Principal Investigator of the project "Experimentation and development of advanced artificial intelligence techniques for the computer simulation of social dynamics and historical evolution ".

In June 2010, he was awarded with the Tartessos Prize for a research career on Virtual Archaeology and Computer Applications in Archaeology. In 2014 he was awarded with the ICREA-Academia, which is the Catalan National Award for research.