Dr. Patxi Pérez Ramallo

As a postdoctoral researcher, I apply stable isotope analysis to explore diet and social differentiation in medieval urban populations across Belgium, shedding light on early urbanism and its demographic impacts. Patxi Pérez Ramallo (Santiago de Compostela, Spain) is a postdoctoral researcher in the Social History of Capitalism (SHOC) Research Group at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB).

I hold an International PhD in Forensic Analysis from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU, 2021), with Research Stays at the Max Planck Insitute of Geoanthropology (Jena, Germany), and the University of Oxford (Oxford, the UK); an MSc in Archaeological Sciences from the University of Bradford (UK, 2015), and a BA in History (Archaeology, Medieval History, Prehistory) from the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC, 2012). His research focuses on bioarchaeology, stable isotope analysis, and historical archaeology to investigate identity, inequality, and human mobility in past societies. His doctoral work examined the Camino de Santiago’s medieval origins through osteological, isotopic, and aDNA analyses. As a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology (Jena, Germany), he specialized in the bioarchaeology of marginalized groups in medieval Iberia. Pérez Ramallo has contributed to archaeological projects spanning Prehistory to the Spanish Civil War across Armenia, Ecuador, Mexico, Norway, the Horn of Africa (Somaliland, Djibouti, Ethiopia), and Spain. His interdisciplinary approach integrates isotope geochemistry and historical archaeology to address complex questions about human history.

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