{"id":114,"date":"2017-04-19T18:27:06","date_gmt":"2017-04-19T17:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/research.shca.ed.ac.uk\/past-by-numbers\/?page_id=114"},"modified":"2017-04-21T17:23:11","modified_gmt":"2017-04-21T16:23:11","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/research.shca.ed.ac.uk\/past-by-numbers\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"about"},"content":{"rendered":"

me<\/h1>\n

My name is Xavier Rubio-Campillo and I’m a lecturer in Computational Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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My background is rather unconventional; in a previous life I got a BSc in Computer Science at the University Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona and I worked in different research groups<\/a> and IT companies. For extrange reasons (even to me) I decided to leave my job and start a PhD in the Humanities. I pursued my doctoral research at the University of Barcelona within the DIDPATRI research group<\/a> where I explored how landscape affected XVIIIth century battles by integrating archaeological evidence, spatial analysis and written sources.<\/p>\n

Before moving to Edinburgh in 2016 I worked as the Team Leader of the Humanities research group at the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre<\/a>. I participated in several interdisciplinary projects applying computational methods to improve our understanding of the past, such as SimulPast<\/a> and EpNet<\/a>.<\/p>\n

research<\/h1>\n

My current research combines techniques from data science and computer modelling to explore how humans create, transmit and use culture. To achieve this goal I often work in transdisciplinary environments involving archaeologists, historians and computer scientists. I am also interested on developing new computational methods able to tackle the complexities of the past.<\/p>\n

I am also interested in outreach and public engagement, and particularly on the use of videogames to promote scientific literacy such as Evolving Planet<\/a>.<\/p>\n

teaching<\/h1>\n

My courses aim at providing the quantitative tools that archaeologists need, including Geographical Information Systems, Statistics and Data Visualization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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