Ana Pastor Pérez is a trained archaeologist and an archaeological conservator with a specialisation in heritage management and preventive conservation.
Her recent doctoral thesis is titled Social archaeological conservation: heritage ethnographies in the Gothic quarter of Barcelona. Her research focuses on the study of new preventive conservation systems in which the needs of society are taken into account while being balanced with the preservation of archaeological remains situated in the public space.
She has broad experience in the application of ethnographic techniques for identifying and describing the interactions between different stakeholders in participative and bottom-up processes in the urban context.
She is an active member of the GAPP, in which she organises the heritage conversations series, a permanent, annual event open to the public, from which a compilation titled “21 Ensayos sobre Patrimonio Cultural/21 Essays on Cultural Heritage/” (JAS Arqueología, 2020) will soon be published.