Pilar Diarte-Blasco is a Ramón y Cajal researcher (MICINN) in the Instituto de Historia at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). She completed her European PhD in 2011 at the Universidad de Zaragoza and then held several prestigious postdoctoral fellowships in Italy, Spain and the UK, such as the Marie Sklodowska Curie Fellowship (2015–2017) at the University of Leicester. She has directed several projects devoted to the study of post-classical transformations of landscapes and townscapes. As a result, she has published numerous papers and the book ‘Late Antique and Early Medieval Hispania Landscapes without Strategy?’ (2018, Oxbow Books).