Mirella Romero Recio, ORCID: 0000-0002-4126-856X is Professor of Ancient History at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Geography and History from the Universidad Complutense, where she obtained her PhD in 1999. She furthered her studies in different international research centres, namely England, Italy, France. She is the author of several books, including Ecos de un descubrimiento. Viajeros españoles en Pompeya (2012), Pompeya. Vida, muerte y resurrección de la ciudad sepultada por el Vesubio (2010), and Cultos marítimos y religiosidad de navegantes en el mundo griego antiguo (2000), and has published a number of papers in prestigious scientific journals and publishers. She is an Academica correspondiente of the Real Academia de la Historia, and Director of Instituto de Historiografía “Julio Caro Baroja”.

Email: mmromero@hum.uc3m.es