Carolina Mallol

Since 2014 Mallol has held the position of Ramón y Cajal researcher and lecturer at the University of La Laguna, Spain. Prior to this she was a Juan de La Cierva Post-doc at Universidad de La Laguna, Spain from 2009–2013. From 2006–2008 she held a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS-UMR 6636), France, and from 2004–2005 was ASPR Postdoctoral Fellow Harvard University.

Mallol's research focuses on early hominids and pyrotechnology, using soil science and biogeochemistry. She has worked on campfire remains at many Neanderthal sites including in El Salt and Abric del Pastor, near the town of Alcoy (southeastern Spain), as well as Middle Paleolithic remains in France, Georgia, Armenia and Uzbekistan. She has been Principal Investigator of 3 consecutive major research projects funded by the Leakey Foundation on Neandertal Fire Technology. From 2014-2016: (Co-PI). MISTI Co-PI of a MISTI Global Seeds Fund project (MIT) on “Paleoenvironmentary and Paleodietary Reconstruction of Early Hominin Sites”, and was awarded a European Research Council Consolidator 2014 grant (PALEOCHAR).

In 2013 Mallol was awarded The UCLA Cotsen Prize in History. In 2016 she was awarded the IUEM 8 March Prize (Instituto Universitario de Estudios de las Mujeres), awarded annually by the University Institute of Women's studies of the Universidad de la Laguna with outstanding research records.

Mallol graduated from Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain with her BA and MA in Geography and History, followed by an MA in 1999 then PhD in Anthropology at Harvard University in 2004. She was awarded a National Science Foundation grant for her PhD research, comprising a geoarchaeological study of three Lower Paleolithic sites.

Carolina Mallol was born in Barcelona, Spain in 1973, and is a professor and researcher of archaeological science at the University of La Laguna in Tenerife, Spain.