Brief CV

Dr Lídia Colominas is a Senior Researcher at ICAC since 2025, after having held a Ramón y Cajal Research post and a Juan de la Cierva Research post at the same center, and a postdoctoral position at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research (University of Cambridge, UK).

With a strong research career in Classical Archaeology, the main aim of her research is the study of past colonizations using an archaeozoological approach. She has primarily studied Roman colonization in the western Mediterranean basin (present day Catalonia and Tunisia), focusing on four main research areas: human diet, animal husbandry, ritual practices and animal trade. The study of these research areas provides knowledge to key topics for the investigation of the colonization process, such as social identities and cultural choices, inequalities, or economic changes.

She has carried out training stays in research centers in England (Sheffield), Switzerland (Basel) and the United States (New York).

She has been Editorial Board Member of the journal ‘International Journal of Archaeology’ from 2019 to 2021, and she is Editorial Board Member of the journal ‘Quaternary International’ since 2021.

She has extensive experience in Higher Education teaching at both postgraduate and graduate level, and she is guest teacher at the Rovira i Virgili University (Tarragona).

Dr Colominas has been member of the EAA community ‘Archaeology and Gender in Europe’ (AGE) since 2022.