Prof Marcos Martinón-Torres

I currently supervise research students and postdoctoral fellows on a range of topics related to the above interests, enrolled at the University of Cambridge. I am interested in supervising students who wish to study for an MPhil or a PhD on related subjects, and happy to discuss new departures.

• Catherine (Kate) Klesner (funded by REVERSEACTION project)
• Agnese Benzonelli (funded by REVERSEACTION project)
• Anne Kwaspen (funded by REVERSEACTION project)
• Jasmine Vieri (funded by REVERSEACTION project)
• Qin-Qin Lu (funded by MSCA)
• Julia Montes-Landa (funded by Small Performances project)
• Emily Watt (funded by Small Performances project)

 Past postdoctoral research fellows

• Yi Bao (Fudan University, Shanghai, China)
• Ema Bauzyte, 2019-2021 (funded by Fitzwilliam Museum's Being an Islander Project)
• Marc Gener-Moret, 2018-2021 (funded Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions)
• Pau Sureda, 2018-2020 (funded by Government of Galicia, Spain)
• Kunlong Chen, 2017-2019 (funded by Newton Fellowship)
• Eleanor Blakelock, 2017-2019 (funded by Leverhulme Trust)
• Xose-Lois Armada, 2014-2016 
• Mike Charlton, 2014-2016 (funded Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions)
• Mercedes Murillo-Barroso, 2014-2016 (funded Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions)

• Mark Davis (UK): Brass vs bronze: Continuity and change from Late Antiquity to the early Islamic period in the Persian Gulf and adjacent regions, funded by AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership with the British Museum
• Elizabeth La Duc (US): Coal Usage in Romano-British Ferrous Metallurgy: Identification and Interpretation, funded by the Cambridge Trust
• Laura Arcidiacono UCL (IT): Development of a neutron technique for the non-destructive and non-invasive analysis of archaeological gold artefacts (first supervisor), funded by Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
• Caterina Zaggia (IT): Redefining Egyptian 'pastes': development of a new analytical protocol for the examination of Egyptian coffin sets from the Third Intermediate Period in Thebes (first supervisor), funded by PlaCe ITN project
• Ismael Rodriguez Palomo (SP): Challenges, approaches and insights in Palaeoproteomics analysis in ceramics (advisor), funded by PlaCe ITN project

• Saltanat Amir (KZ), 2024: Goldsmithing technologies, organic materials and funerary rituals in the Saka societies of the Eurasian Steppe Region during the Iron Age (c. 900 – 100 BCE), funded by Harding Distinguished Postgraduate Scholarships
• Julia Montes-Landa (SP), 2023: Evolution, co-existence and adaptation of bronze-making recipes in Prehistory: a case study from North-Eastern Iberia (first supervisor), funded by AHRC and Cambridge Trust Vice Chancellor’s Award
• Yi-Ting Hsu (TW), 2023: Fire assay, cupellation, and the spread of technical knowlede in Early Modern Europe (first supervisor), funded by Taiwan-Cambridge Scholarship
• Jasmine Vieri (FI), 2023: Bayesian regional models of gold and copper alloys from pre-Hispanic Colombia (first supervisor), funded by AHRC
• Ole Nordland (NO), 2021: Iron making in Viking Age Scandinavia (c. AD 750-1000): Political power, knowledge transmission and technological changes (first supervisor), funded by AHRC
• Yaxiong Liu (CN), 2021: Iron and the Rise of the Qin Empire: An Exploration of the Iron Industry and its Social Impact during the Warring States Period (joint first supervisor), funded by Chinese Scholarship Council
• Umberto Veronesi (IT), 2020: The Alchemy of Early Modern Glass (first supervisor), funded by AHRC
• Agnese Benzonelli (IT), 2019: Validation of analytical methods for non-invasive characterization of natural and artificial patinas (second supervisor), funded by Tylecote Scholarship
• Laura Ware Adlington (US), 2018: Investigation of technology, production and deterioration of medieval stained glass using handheld pXRF  (second supervisor), funded by UCL Graduate Scholarship
• Maria Teresa Plaza Calonge (CL), 2018: Gold technology and the Tiwanaku empire in San Pedro de Atacama, Northern Chile, during the Middle Horizon (AD 400-1000) (first supervisor), funded by Chilean government
• Jonathan Wood (GB), 2018: The transmission of silver and silver extraction technology across the Mediterranean by the Phoenicians in the 8^th and 7^th centuries BCE: A precursor for the Classical Age (first supervisor), funded by AHRC
• David Larreina-García (SP), 2017: Copper and bloomery iron smelting in Central China: Technological traditions in the Daye County (Hubei) (first supervisor), funded by Impact Scholarship 
• Rahil Alipour (IR), 2017: Persian crucible steel production in Central Iran (AD 802-1431) (joint first supervisor), funded by UCL Qatar 
• Miguel Carrero (SP), 2017: The megalithic phenomenon in Galicia: Contributions of GIS and spatial statistics to the study of location patterns (second supervisor), funded by Spanish Government Research Scholarship.
• Pira Venunan (TH), 2016: An archaeometallurgical study of iron production in Ban Kruat, lower Northeast Thailand: technology and social development from the Iron Age (500BC-AD500) to the Imperial Angkorian Khmer (AD802-1431) (first supervisor), funded by Thai Royal Family Scholarship
• Mainardo Asinelli (IT), 2016: Manufacture and use of copper and copper-alloy artefacts in medieval Tuscia (first supervisor), funded by European Union ITN
• Siran Liu (CN), 2015: Gold and silver production in Imperial China. Technological choices in their socio-economic and environmental settings (second supervisor), funded by Sino-British Fellowship Trust
• Ruth Fillery-Travis (UK), 2015: Iron production in the Western Roman Empire: A diachronic study of technology and society based on two archaeological sites (first supervisor), funded by AHRC 
• Carmen Ting (HK), 2013: Change, continuity, and the Maya Collapse: Reconstructing the ceramic economy in the Eastern Maya Lowlands during the Classic to Postclassic Transition (joint first supervisor), funded by UCL Graduate Scholarship 
• Thomas Thondhlana (ZB), 2012: Pre-colonial copper production in the Northern Lowveld, South Africa, c. AD 700-1900 (first supervisor), funded by EPSRC and Xstrata
• Maria Dikomitou (CY), 2012: Ceramic production, distribution and social interaction. An analytical approach to the study of Early and Middle Bronze Age pottery from Cyprus (second supervisor), funded by Leventis Foundation, Cyprus
• Roseleen Bains (CA), 2012: The social significance of stone bead technology in Neolithic Catalhoyuk, Turkey (second supervisor)
• Xiuzhen Janice Li (CN), 2012: Standardisation, labour organisation and the bronze weapons of the Qin Terracotta Warriors (joint first supervisor), funded by Kwok Foundation, Hong Kong 
• Wenli Zhou (CN), 2012: Distilling zinc in China: The technology of large-scale zinc production in Chongqing during the Ming and Qing Dynasties (AD 1368-1911) (first supervisor), funded by Kwok Foundation, Hong Kong
• Louise Iles (UK), 2011: Technology, society and tradition: reconstructing the iron industries of Bunyoro-Kitara (second supervisor), funded by AHRC 
• Jane Humphris (UK), 2010: An archaeometallurgical investigation of iron smelting traditions in Southern Rwanda (second supervisor), funded by AHRC 
• Virpi Holmqvist (FI), 2010: Ceramics in transition: a comparative analytical study of late Byzantine-early Islamic pottery from Palaestina Tertia (joint first supervisor), funded by Ella and Georg Ehrnrooth Foundation, Finland 
• Aude Mongiatti (FR), 2009: Assaying and smelting noble metals in sixteenth-century Austria: a comparative analytical study (2009, joint first supervisor), funded by EU Marie Curie EST
• Oliver Pryce (UK), 2009: Copper production and technological reproduction in the Khao Wong Prachan of central Thailand (2009, second supervisor), funded by Tylecote Grant