Brief CV
Brief Curriculum
Dr Livarda is an archaeobotanist with a particular interest in the archaeology of food and taste, and the development of new methodologies for the identification of agricultural practices in the past. She is a Senior Researcher at ICAC-CERCA, after having held a Ramón y Cajal Research post also at ICAC-CERCA (2018-2024), and a position as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the Department of Classics and Archaeology at the University of Nottingham, UK (2011-2018). She has directed, co-directed, and collaborated in multiple international research projects, mainly in the Aegean but also further afield in Europe and Western Asia. Her research has been competitively funded with more than a million euros.
Dr Livarda is Editor-In-Chief of the journal Environmental Archaeology, a member of the editorial boards of the journals International Journal of Gastronomy and Food Science and Food and History, and a member of the editorial advisory board of the journal Athens University Review of Archaeology (AURA). She is also a member of the Lefkandi subcommittee of the British School at Athens since 2012, and the Association of Environmental Archaeology (elected member 2012-16, 2019-2023, co-opted since 2023), while she was also a member of the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s Peer Review College (UK) for the period 2017-2022.
She has extensive Higher Education teaching experience at both postgraduate and graduate levels. She is an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in recognition of attainment against the UK Professional Standards Framework for teaching and learning support in higher education, and an Associate Professor of the University Rovira i Virgili (Tarragona). To date, she has directed more than 10 PhD thesis and supervised several masters dissertations.
Main current research activities:
– ‘DarkAegean’. The agricultural economy of the Aegean ‘Dark Ages’ through machine learning-powered 3D cereal grain morphometrics, project I+D+I, PI.
– Urbanisation, commerce and foodways in the Roman world, co-PI with Prof Hector A. Orengo (ICREA-BSC-ICAC).
– Elements: The Archaeology of Food. Cambridge University Press. Co-editor of 50 books with Dr Katheryn Twiss (Stony Brook University, New York).
