I am an Egyptologist with a background in history and anthropology. I moved from Spain to the UK to pursue an MPhil in Egyptology (2008-2010), followed by a DPhil in Egyptology (2010-2014), both at the University of Oxford. I worked as a departmental lecturer at the Faculty of Oriental Studies (Oxford) from 2014 to 2016, when I took up a three-year research fellowship at The Queen’s College (Oxford). I joined the University of Birmingham in September 2019.

I was appointed chair of the Egypt Exploration Society in 2025.

My primary research focuses on how kinship is constructed and materialised in the monumental record of the First Intermediate Period and the Middle Kingdom (ca 2150–1650 BCE), and it lies in the intersection of archaeology, anthropology, and Egyptology. While my main corpus for this research comprises memorial stelae from the site of Abydos, I use information from other written, archaeological, and pictorial sources to reassess the impact that monuments have had on the construction, perpetuation, and transmission of social networks. I explore these aspects in several journal articles as well as in my first monograph, Kinship and family in ancient Egypt: archaeology and anthropology in dialogue, published by Cambridge University Press in 2020. The book is available through Cambridge Core.

I have recently published a Cambridge Element entitled Making memories in ancient Egypt. This book builds upon my interest in the monumental display of social groups, focusing on the impact that these representations had on remembrance and on the practice of relatedness. This Element is also available through Cambridge Core.

Other topics I am currently working on include gender and the body, storytelling, early ethnographies of Egypt, and the reception of ancient Egypt in popular culture. Regarding the latter, I have published on the reimagining of ancient Egypt on heavy metal music and on science fiction. I have also co-edited the volume The Ancient World in Alternative History and Counterfactual Fictions, published by Bloomsbury in 2024.

Since 2021 I am section editor for gender theory in the open access and peer-reviewed journal Interdisciplinary Egyptology.

I am also a keen field archaeologist, and I participate in the Dayr al-Barsha archaeological project in Middle Egypt, where I excavate a First Intermediate Period cemetery.