
PhD University of La Laguna in The Regional Development, Training and Employment programme.
Full Professor of University
Department of Engineering and Architecture Techniques and Projects.
Higher Polytechnic School of Engineering.
QUALIFICATIONS
TEACHING
MANAGEMENT
Currently since February 2020, Director of the Higher Polytechnic School of Engineering of the ULL.
Director La Laguna World Heritage Cultural Chair University of La Laguna since 19 march 2020
History of management
OTHER RELEVANT POSITIONS
RESEARCH
DOCTORAL THESIS
Traditional Road Networks as a factor in Local Development.
Methodological proposal for intervention in the recovery of the Camino Viejo de Candelaria on the island of Tenerife.
Defended on 4 September 2017, with the qualification of Outstanding Cum Laude.
Directed by Dr. Vicente Zapata Hernández and Dr. Norena Martín Dorta.
Steering Committee member
Barbro Santillo Frizell is seniorprofessor in Classical Archaeology at the University of Uppsala, Sweden, and affiliated researcher at the Swedish Institute of Classical Studies in Rome, where she was Director from 2001-2013.
She is specialized in Mediterranean archaeology and ancient history and has participated in excavations in Cyprus, Greece and Italy. Working in a leading position with the Swedish Asine expedition, Nauplion, Greece (1973-79), she wrote her Phd thesis on the Mycenaean culture. She was acting director of the Swedish Institute in Athens 1982-83 (sept-jan). While being assistant director at the Swedish Institute in Rome (1988-92) she developed a project on transhumance and pastoralism in south Italy. As director of the same institute she was co-leading a interdisciplinary project on the Roman road Via Tiburtina, once a main transhumance route leading to Rome (Bjur & Santillo Frizell, Via Tiburtina. Space, movement & artifacts in the urban landscape, 2009).
Her academic teaching and writing covers Greek Bronze Age, landscape, pastoralism, transhumance, building methods and society in the ancient world, Etruscan culture, reception history and cultural heritage issues. She has published scientific monographs, conference volumes, a vast number of articles in international peer-reviewed magazines. She has continuosly written popular and informative articles for Swedish magazines and newspapers and several books which have been translated into foreign languages.
Steering Committee member
Simona Messina holds a degree in Architecture and a PhD at Sapienza, University of Rome.
Professional studying and experiences in Rome and Europe (Budapest, Zurich) and Africa (Mali, Tunisia, Cyprus), focusing on topics related to landscape architecture. Since 2008 full time staff position at Regional Park Appia Antica in Rome
Steering Committee member
He is a doctor in Geography with an International Mention. He is also a corresponding academic of the Academy of Geography and History of Guatemala since 2012.
He is a member of the Editorial Committee of the scientific journal “Sarance”, Instituto Otavaleño de Antropología and Universidad de Otavalo, Ecuador; and member of the Editorial Committee of the scientific journal “Vegueta: Yearbook of the Faculty of Geography and History”, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain.
He is an individual member of ICOMOS-Spain (International Council of Monuments and Sites), and a member of the International Center for Heritage Conservation -CICOP Spain.
He is a research member of the World Network of Magellanic Universities (RUMA).
He has been a professor of the Degree in Tourism at the University School of Tourism of S / C de Tenerife (EUTUR) since 2018 and professor-tutor at the National University of Distance Education (UNED) since 2005.
He has made seven postdoctoral stays and visits to Morocco, Italy and Mexico; and nine pre-doctoral stays and visits to France, Mexico, Guatemala, Italy and Portugal.
He is a visiting professor at the Universities of Guatemala and Mexico, giving conferences, courses and seminars since 2008.
He has participated in different research teams for projects of the Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism (Spain) and the Canary Islands Agency for Research, Innovation and Information Society.
Its main lines of research are developed in the field of territorial development, heritage and alternative tourism.
Author-co-author of three books and author of more than fifty research articles, communications and publications at a national and international level. As well as director / coordinator of seminars, courses, conferences, forums, national and international symposia.
Since 2020 he is president of the College of Geographers of the Canary Islands (Territorial Delegation).
Steering Committee member
Carlo Valorani is Associate Professor of Sapienza_University of Rome (Dip.PDTA), architect and AIAPP (IFLA Europe) members, he teaches “urban planning and landscape design”.
He carries out his research activity on the theoretical aspects of landscape concept, on tools and methods for knowledge, interpretation and evaluation of territories in a landscape view, on regeneration of public spaces and marginal urban areas, aimed at the design of alternative transformation strategies.
Barbro Santillo Frizell is seniorprofessor in Classical Archaeology at the University of Uppsala, Sweden, and affiliated researcher at the Swedish Institute of Classical Studies in Rome, where she was Director from 2001-2013.
She is specialized in Mediterranean archaeology and ancient history and has participated in excavations in Cyprus, Greece and Italy. Working in a leading position with the Swedish Asine expedition, Nauplion, Greece (1973-79), she wrote her Phd thesis on the Mycenaean culture. She was acting director of the Swedish Institute in Athens 1982-83 (sept-jan). While being assistant director at the Swedish Institute in Rome (1988-92) she developed a project on transhumance and pastoralism in south Italy. As director of the same institute she was co-leading a interdisciplinary project on the Roman road Via Tiburtina, once a main transhumance route leading to Rome (Bjur & Santillo Frizell, Via Tiburtina. Space, movement & artifacts in the urban landscape, 2009).
Her academic teaching and writing covers Greek Bronze Age, landscape, pastoralism, transhumance, building methods and society in the ancient world, Etruscan culture, reception history and cultural heritage issues. She has published scientific monographs, conference volumes, a vast number of articles in international peer-reviewed magazines. She has continuosly written popular and informative articles for Swedish magazines and newspapers and several books which have been translated into foreign languages.
Kjell-Åke Aronsson is a researcher at Ájtte museum and the former director
Professor (1980-2016) in Plant Systematics and Plant Geography at Sapienza, University of Rome.
President (2011- 2020) of the Regional Section (Latium) “Giuliano Montelucci” of Società Botanica Italiana.
Guest Researcher (Senior Lecturer) at the Dept. of Plant Ecology and Genetics – Evolutionary Biology Center, University of Uppsala (Sweden).
Member of the Steering Committee of the Swedish Phytogeographical Socierty (Svenska Växtgeografiska Sällskapet)
Master in Geological Sciences. Retired Professor and Researcher of the Department of Earth Sciences, Autonomous University of Baja California Sur (Mexico).
He currently works as a Consultant Geologist in Environmental Geology, Geological Heritage and Geotourism.
Has extensive experience in the generation and application of knowledge in Environmental Geology, Geological Heritage, Geodiversity, Geotourism, Geoparks and Geoconservation and collaborated in studies on these issues.
He participated as Operational Manager of the Geosites Inventory and Design of
Geotourism Itineraries Project in the municipalities of Comondú and Mulegé, in
Baja California Sur (Mexico), in collaboration between the State Secretariat of Tourism, Economy and Sustainability (SETUES) and the Autonomous University of
Baja California Sur (UABCS).
Since 2015 he collaborates as Scientific Coordinator in the Huasteca Potosina Aspiring Geopark Project (Mexico) that aims to join the UNESCO World Geoparks Network.