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.
Rodrigo received his PhD from the University of Southampton in 2015. He is a specialist in maritime archaeology, with interests in coastal societies and their interaction with the changing environment. He is also interested in developing new ways of exploring and documenting remote deep water archaeological sites.
His experience in this field has been extensive and varied, participating in a number of commercial and research international projects in the Mediterranean, the North Atlantic Ocean, the Baltic, the English Channel, the Persian Gulf and the Black Sea, as well as inland water sites in the British Isles and Mexico.
He is currently working on prehistoric maritime landscapes and 15th – 18th Century shipwrecks of North and Eastern Europe using state-of-the-art technologies and computational modelling.
Rodrigo is a member of staff at the Centre for Maritime Archaeology at
of the University of Southampton and full time research fellow on the Black Sea maritime Archaeology Project (MAP) led by Professor Jon Adams and funded by EEF Expeditions.
He is also involved on 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 as well as collaboration with the Institute of Anthropologic Studies from the UNAM in Mexico. Rodrigo is a Nautical Archaeology Society tutor as well as a HSE Air Commercial Diver.
