Antonio Rojas Rabaneda

Graduate in History and holder of a Master’s Degree in Cultural Heritage Management at the local level. He has over 27 years of professional experience in the fields of research and the implementation of cultural heritage and archaeology projects.

As a project and communications officer at the Catalan Institute for Cultural Heritage Research (ICRPC) since 2007, he has been involved in the design and launch of numerous research and knowledge transfer projects related to heritage uses, audience studies, master plans for cultural facilities, historical and archaeological reports, heritage assessment, data analysis, and heritage inventories, among others. He has extensive knowledge of national and international research funding programs.

He is registered with the College of Journalists of Catalonia (membership number 19049). In the field of ICT and communication, he works on the dissemination and communication of research. In this regard, he has coordinated and participated in projects such as #LivingHeritage!, Bojos per l’Arqueologia, and Digibers, in addition to giving public lectures and teaching at the university level on the use of technology to activate and socialize cultural heritage (both tangible and intangible), as well as the use of social networks and web platforms.

He has participated in several competitive R&D projects focused on the study of heritage uses, dissemination, communication, and processes of patrimonialization. He has been a member of the Cultural Heritage Research Group of Catalonia (GRPRE 2017 SGR 835) and the Research Group on Patrimonialization and Uses of Heritage and Patrimonialization Processes (2009 SGR 1065). He is currently a member of the Research Group on Archaeology, Prehistory, and Heritage at the Archaeology and Prehistory Laboratory of the University of Girona.

In parallel, as an archaeologist specialized in protohistory (the subject of his ongoing doctoral thesis), the ancient world, and archaeological heritage, he has broad experience in leading archaeological interventions and in the heritage valorization of archaeology. He has participated as a researcher in R&D projects such as The Patrimonialization of Archaeology and was co-director of the company ARES. Archaeology and Restoration (1998–2003).

He has also taught at the Department of History and History of Art at the University of Girona.