Hèctor A. Orengo is an ICREA Research Professor at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center. He obtained his PhD from the Rovira i Virgili University in 2010 and, since then, he has developed research at the GEOLAB (UMR 6042) in France, the Universities of Nottingham, Sheffield and Cambridge in the UK, and the Catalan Institute of Classical Archaeology in Spain. His research has focused on long-term human-environment interactions and the development of computational methods to address archaeological problems.