Jesús Bermejo Tirado
Professor Jesús Bermejo Tirado
Jesús Bermejo Tirado is Professor of Ancient History at the University Carlos III of Madrid. His research career has been focused on the social analysis of different communities in various provincial settings of the Roman Mediterranean. He is a specialist in the household archaeology of Antiquity. He has developed several research works in different areas of the Roman world such as Roman Celtiberia, Carthage Nova, proconsular Africa, Antioch, the Roman villa of Fuente Alamo (Puente Genil), or the north of the Roman Carpetania. Since 2014 he has been co-director (together with Prof. Alicia Jiménez, Duke University) of the Renieblas Archaeological Project focused on the excavation and analysis of the Republican camps of Renieblas (Soria). He has recently initiated another line of research on the archaeology of peasant communities in the Roman world that has resulted in the publication of a volume edited together with Prof. Dr. Ignasi Grau (U. of Alicante) entitled The Archaeology of Peasantry in Roman Spain (2022), published by De Gruyter.
Prof. Bermejo has extensive international experience thanks to different grants and contracts. He has been professor (undergraduate, master and PhD) or researcher in different universities and research centers in different countries (predoctoral: Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales - CSIC, University of Leicester, Brown University, DAI-Zentrale Berlin; postdoctoral: ARQVA-Cartagena, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Università degli studi di Sassari, York University, University of Toronto). He has an extensive track record of scientific publications that includes 4 books as sole author, 3 edited volumes, 22 articles in scientific journals (7 of them in Q1 SJR, SCOPUS journals), 30 book chapters, and different reviews, popularization articles and other technical texts, many of them in English and German.
Prof. Bermejo has recently been PI of 4 scientific projects: a 4-year project funded by the Comunidad de Madrid on domestic economies in northern Roman Carpetania; another 1-year project funded by the Comunidad de Madrid entitled Carpetania rustica, a third 2-year project belongs to the Europa Investiga 2019 program awarded as a result of achieving an A evaluation in an ERC project application (Starting Grant 2018) and finally, another 1-year project within the citizen science program of the FECyT-Ministry of Science. In addition, he has participated in other research projects from different scientific agencies and institutions in Spain, Canada and the United States. In 2018 he was selected for the last round of the ERC Starting Grant program. His academic career has been recognized by the receipt of different awards. In 2015 he was awarded the York University Research Leader Award, as one of the best researchers of this Canadian university during the academic year 2014-2105. In 2018 she received the Research Excellence Award from the Social Council of UC3M for scholars under 45 years old. In January 2019 he received the I3 accreditation from the Ministry of Universities.