Ada Cortés Vicente

Assistant Professor – ERAAUB

ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0001-7024-5407 

Scopus: 55991843900

Researcher ID: AAA-7546-2019

Email: adacortes@ub.edu 

Short biography

I am an archaeologist specialized on Ancient Urbanism and Architecture, mostly focused on Greek and Roman Domestic Architecture. My main research line delves on analysing the structures and characteristics of Classic houses and their inhabitants. Recently, I’ve worked on the significance of hybridism between the Greek and Roman societies through the influences detected on their housing structures.
I have a Degree in History (degree+MSc) from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (2002), and a Ph.D. in Classical Archaeology from the same university. My doctoral thesis analysed the Roman housing on the North-Eastern Iberian Peninsula. I perfected my training in Architectural Archaeology on the vesuvian region as a visiting Ph.D. student in the Faccoltà di Lettere at the Seconda Università di Napoli (Italy, 2008). Later, I was visiting scholar at the University of Southampton (UK, 2013) collaborating with the Digital Humanities project Pelagios and a Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow and Sapiexcellence researcher at the University of Rome, La Sapienza (Italy, 2018 to 2020).

Research interests

Over the last 20 years I have participated in numerous excavations, pedestrian and geophysical surveys in Spain and Italy, studying ancient cities in different parts of the Mediterranean. I’ve also studied the structure and architectural characteristics of a large number of ancient houses in the Iberian Peninsula and Magna Graecia. My main interests are related to the knowledge of past societies through the study of their private buildings and the open digital dissemination of scientific data to society and the scientific community.

Selected publications

– Cortés, A.; Migliorati, L. (eds). 2020. La casa a corte tetrastila. L’influenza romana sulla casa greca in Magna Grecia e Sicilia, Misura e Spazio II, Edizione Quasar, Roma.

– Cortés A; De Soto, P. 2022 “Who lived in that Roman house? Computational analysis on the domestic space to identify a new hybrid house in the Roman Empire”

– Cortés, A. 2014. L’arquitectura domèstica d’època tardorepublicana i altimperial a les ciutats romanes de Catalunya, IEC, UAB, ISBN: 978-84-9965-218-4, Barcelona.

– Orengo, H.; Cortés, A. 2014, The Augustan Temple and Forum of the Colony of Barcino: A 90 Degree Turn, Oxford Journal of Archaeology, Volum 33, Issue 1, 89-107.

Selected projects

– 2022-2025. “Estudi de les vies transpirinenques dels Pirineus Orientals. La Strata Ceretana i el Coll d’Ares. (Co-IP). 01/2022-12/2025. (48 months). 40.416,66€
– 2020-2021. “Tetrastylon +. Reinforcing an excellent scientific study of a domus with a hybrid cultural conception sheltered by a global civilization of antiquity, the Tetrastyle Courtyard House” (IP) Add SAPIExcellence 2020. La Sapienza, University of Rome, Italy. (12 month), 50.000 €.
– 2018-2019. «Tetrastylon. Definition, analysis and interpretation of a new typology of the Roman House: the Tetrastyle Courtyard House» (IP) (nº747466). Sapienza, Universidad di Roma, Italy. (24 month), 180.277,20 €.
– 2018-2021. “Aprofundiment en el coneixement de la xarxa viaria romana a Catalunya. Prospeccions arqueològiques a les vies romanes del Perelló, Lluçanès i Selvanera”. (Co-IP) Institut d’Estudis Catalans, Barcelona, Spain, (48 months). 7.068,8 €