Organisation / Company University of Granada Department Prehistory and Archaeology Laboratory NA Is the Hosting related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure? No
MSCA-PF: Joint application at the University of Granada. Department ofPrehistory and Archaeology. Professor Javier Martínez Jiménez, from the Department ofPrehistory and Archaeology at the University of Granada, welcomes postdoctoral candidatesinterested inapplying for a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship (MSCA-PF)in 2026 at this University. Please note that applicants must comply with the Mobility Rule (for more information about the 2026 call, please consult this link ) .
Brief description of the institution: The University of Granada (UGR), founded in 1531, is one of the largest and most important universities in Spain.With more than 57,000 undergraduate and postgraduate students and almost 7,000 members of staff, the UGR offers 97 undergraduate degrees, 157 master’s degrees (7 of which are double degrees) and 28 doctoral programmes via its 124 departments and nearly 50 centers. Accordingly, the UGR offers one of the most extensive and diverse ranges of higher education programmes in Spain.
The UGR has been awarded with the "Human Resources Excellence in Research (HRS4R)", which reflectsthe institution’s commitment to continuously improve its human resource policies in line with the European Charter for Researchers and the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers.The UGR is also internationally renowned for its excellence in diverse research fields and ranked among the top Spanish universities in a variety of ranking criteria, such as national R&D; projects, fellowships awarded, publications, and international funding.




The UGR is one of the few Spanish Universities listed in the Shanghai Top 500 ranking - Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU). The 2025 edition of the ARWU places the UGR in 301-400th position in the world and as the 3-8 highest ranked University in Spain, reaffirming its position as an institution at the forefront of national and international research. From the perspective of specialist areas in the ARWU rankings, the UGR is outstanding in Mathematics, Artificial Intelligence and Dentistry & Oral Sciences (ranked between 51th-75th position), Computer Science & Engineering, Education and Hospitality & Tourism Management (between 76-100th position), and in the areas of Food Science & Technology and Business Administration (between 101-150th position). A little lower in the ranking, the UGR also stands out in the areas of Earth Sciences, Law, Management, Nursing, Psychology and Statistics, in which the UGR is positioned in the 151-200th position.
Internationally, the University of Granada is firmly committed to its participation in the calls of the Framework Programme of the European Union. For the duration of the prevoius Framework Programme, Horizon 2020, the UGR obtained a totalof 124 projects with a total funding of more than €30 million .For the current Framework Programme, Horizon Europe, the UGR has obtained 136 projects, so far, with a total funding of more than €38 million .




Brief description of the Centre/Research Group: GAECATAO is the University of Granada’s research group focused on the archaeology of the Classical period, with researchers working on a scope of chronologies from the late Iron Age to Late Antiquity in Iberia and the Mediterranean. The main research lines in this group are on Roman engineering and architecture, ancient mining landscapes, the Romanisation of the Western provinces, Roman urbanism, ceramic and glass studies, and ancient hydraulics. Excavations and field projects within this group include the Roman kiln sites of Cartuja, the Roman cities of Ucuri and Zahara de la Sierra, the city of Rome, the broad hinterland of Mérida, Amphipolis (Greece) and Pompeii (Italy).
CAUAT (Cultura del Agua Urbana en la Antigüedad Tardía = Urban Water Culture in Late Antiquity) is a four-year project aimed at the dialectics between water infrastructure and local urban cultures in the late antique Mediterranean. It combines work on published data on urban water infrastructure from across the Mediterranean and new fieldwork at the site of Amphipolis, combining it with anthropological understandings of local culture and Place Theory. The main objective is to produce a synthetic work that will underline the cultural importance of water in four different aspects of the late antique city: civic culture, religious cults, social habitus, and industrial activities.
Within this project, there is room to work in any aspect water infrastructure, use and management in the ancient and late antique city, from archaeological, historical, literary and legal perspectives.
Research Area: Social Sciences and Humanities (SOC)
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📌 Postdoc: Ancient Water Infrastructure & Urban Archaeology (Madrid)
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