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Laja Pujol (UoA) Laja.Pujol@uab.es MSN: chancelade@hotmail.com Website: http://www.aegean.gr/culturaltec/curie.htm |
Degrees
Born in Barcelona in 1976. She followed undergraduate studies at the Université de Bordeaux-I (Maîtrise in Prehistory) and at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona History), where she was awarded the First Class honours degree in 1999. In 2003, she obtained the M. Phil. in Prehistorical Archaeology, for the realization of which she had received from the Catalan Government a fellowship for predoctoral studies and two travel bursaries for research stages at the Virtual Lab of the ITABC-CNR (Rome) and at the Heritage Studies Research Group of the Institute of Archaeology at the University College (London). She is currently a Marie-Curie fellow at the University of the Aegean (Museology Lab, Department of Cultural Technology and Communication), where she carries out the second phase of her doctoral research project, the title of which is “Archaeology, museums and computers: semiotic approach to the use of VR for the dissemination of Archaeology in museums”. She has worked as an ocasional lecturer at the UAB, and as a researcher at the Local Architectural Heritage Service (Barcelona Territorial Service) and at the Centre for Prehistoric Archaeological Heritage Studies (Department of Prehistory, UAB). Her research fields are Paleolithic, Quantitative Archaeology and dissemination of Archaeology, in relation to which she has participated in several archaeological excavations in France and Spain; she has presented some papers in journals and conferences –one of which was awarded the Young Researcher Award (TAE) by the VSMM Society– and she has collaborated in the organization of international workshops.
CHIRON Project
The contribution of the University of the Aegean to the Chiron project is mainly focused on theoretical background and practical training on museological issues, design of cultural information systems, communication of ICT information to different types of users, design of VR applications, evaluation of effect of ICT on end users in the cultural heritage sector and study of use of ICT for contemporary cultural practice. Therefore, this corresponds precisely to my line of research. Until now, and despite extensive research, I had been unable to find any institutions within Europe dedicated to this specific field, and where I would be able to complete my training adequately.
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