Rodrigo Pacheco Ruiz
Rodrigo was born in 1982. He received his BA with honours in Archaeology from the Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia in 2006 and his MA in Maritime Archaeology in 2009 from the University of Southampton. His experience in this field has been wide and varied, participating in a number of commercial and research international projects in the Mediterranean, the North Atlantic Ocean, the Baltic, the English Channel and the Persian Gulf, as well as inland water sites in the British Isles and Mexico. His current research focused on maritime connectivity at the Isles of Scilly, is funded under a doctoral scheme awarded by the Consejo Nacional de la Ciencia y la Tecnología, with aim on exploring new ways of understanding maritime societies.
As member of the Centre for Maritime Archaeology Research Group of the University of Southampton he is involved in multidisciplinary research within the Archaeology Department but also has external collaboration with the Prehistory, Ancient History, Archaeology and Geography Research Group from the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela in Spain dedicated in particular on the maritime aspects of prehistoric Atlantic communities. Rodrigo is a committee member of the Maritime Affairs Group from the Institute for Archaeologists and a Nautical Archaeology Society tutor as well as a CMAS (World Underwater Federation) Normoxic Trimix diver.
