Joan Negre is a Research Associate at the Catalan Institute of Classical Archaeology based in Tarragona, and a member of the Laboratory of Archaeology and Architecture of the City. He is also the director of the Gandia Museum of Archaeology and Head of Gandia City Council’s Archaeology and Heritage Service. He earned his PhD in 2013 at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, where he defended his doctoral thesis: an exhaustive historical and archaeological study of the Andalusi period in the region of Tortosa. He held various teaching positions at the university in the Department of Antiquity and Middle Ages Sciences, before moving to the Austral Centre for Scientific Research at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council in Argentina, where he was awarded two consecutive postdoctoral fellowships. His research focuses on two principal areas: the archaeology and history of the medieval Islamic world, and the spatial analysis of historical phenomena. He studies socioenvironmental dialectics by investigating human occupation strategies and their spatial signatures, a line of work consolidated through several long-term research residencies at the Università degli Studi di Siena in Italy. Since 2019, he has been directing the archaeological projects at the emirate hillfort in Tossal de la Vila, Castellón, Spain, together with the team at Castelló Regional Council’s Archaeological and Prehistorical Research Service, and the Islamic fortress of Bairén, Valencia, Spain.