Alessandra Pecci, profesora Agregada (Associate Professor) at the University of Barcelona in the Department of History and Archaeology, member of the Institut d’Arqueologia and the ERAAUB research group, has an international and interdisciplinary curriculum. She is an archaeologist specialized in archaeometry and in particular in the organic residue analysis (ORA) of ceramics and floors to understand ceramic use and function, and the use of space in ancient buildings.

She has provided innovative data on amphorae contents and developed the study of ancient production structures to differentiate those for oil and wine. Together with colleagues from the University of Siena, she developed the first method to identify wine residues through gas chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry. She has worked on food practices in Roman, Late Roman and Medieval times in the Mediterranean area, as well as in Mesoamerica. She has carried out works that involve experimental archaeology, ethnoarchaeology, and ethnoarchaeometry to better understand archaeological data. She works in archaeological projects in Italy, Spain, and Mexico.

Being fond of science in general, she is also interested in the characterization of mortars and plasters, archaeological prospection and the application of scientific methods in archaeology in general.