After finishing my degree in History at the University of Granada and completing the Master in Archaeology (M71.56.1/RD 1393/2007), I obtained a contract from the Ministry of Education program for university teacher training (FPU/2015. After obtaining my PhD I was awarded several postdoctoral contracts through Contrato-Puente Program of the University of Granada, Margarita Salas Postdoctoral Contract and recently the Postdoctoral contract of the Xunta de Galicia. Thanks to them, I have been able to carry out research stays in prestigious centers such as the University of Cordoba and Universiteit Leiden.

I have participed in numerous archaeological campaigns at national and international level (16), as well as the direction of several archaeological interventions (2). I have carried out several scientific publications in journals and publishers of international prestige (29) and technical reports (4), and also in participation in congresses and other scientific reunions (40. I am part or have been part of several R&D research projects with national funding (4) and also with regional funding (2). I have directed as PI small projects focused on the use of photogrammetry and UAVs for the digitisation and survey of the archaeological landscape (2) and the digitisation and analysis of the archaeological record (2).

His most notable bibliographic contributions include:

• Monograph Editor: Maldonado Ruiz, A., Rouco Collazo, J. (2024). La Arqueología en la era digital. Aplicaciones y posibilidades de la documentación y análisis tridimensional. Cuadernos de Prehistoria y Arqueología de la Universidad de Granada 34. In press. ISSN 2174-8063. SJR Q2
• Martínez Sánchez, R.M., Maldonado Ruiz, A. (CA), Vera Rodríguez, C., Bretones García, M.D., Balbín Behrmann, R., Bueno Ramírez, P. (2024). El conjunto monumental de Las Sileras (Córdoba). Una aproximación multiescala y digital a un rompecabezas grabado en piedra. Trabajos de Prehistoria 81 (1), 966. https://doi.org/10.3989/tp.2024.966 SJR Q1
• Maldonado Ruiz, A. (CA), López Castillo, M., Sol Plaza, J.F., Ruiz Montes, P., Ruiz Vivas, C.M. (2024) Nuevas aportaciones a la epigrafía de la Granada romana. Del texto arqueológico al análisis digital. Pyrenae, 55 (1), in press. SJR Q2, 0.27. DOI: 10.1344/Pyrenae2024.vol55num2.6
• Carreño Soler, J.J., Maldonado Ruiz, A., Rouco Collazo, J. (2024). El “Arte” Del Mármol. Una Aproximación Arqueológica Y Digital A Las Serrerías Hidráulicas Del Siglo Xix En El Valle Del Almanzora (Almería, España). Virtual Archaeology Review 15 (31), 132- 152. SJR Q1, 0.787. https://doi.org/10.4995/var.2024.21657
• Maldonado Ruiz, A. (CA), Dorado Alejos, A., Fernández García, M.I. (2022). The recovery of the Terra Sigillata Hispanica rubric Punches from the Roman pottery of Isturgi (Los Villares De Andújar, Jaén) from their digitization, reconstruction and 3D printing. Virtual Archaeology Review. 13-27, pp.117-134. https://doi.org/10.4995/var.2022.16532 SJR Q1
• Barruezo Baquero, P., Dorado Alejos, A., Cámara Serrano, J.A., Maldonado Ruiz, A., Molina González, F. (2022). Digitizing Los Millares (Santa Fe de Mondujar, Almería, Spain) through 3-D and geospatial technologies: preserving and disseminating the 3D archaeological heritage. Digital Applications in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage 27, e00247. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.daach.2022.e00247 SJR Q1
• Martínez Sánchez, R., Rubio Valverde, M., Moreno García, M., Maldonado Ruiz, A., Granados Torres, A., Delgado Huertas, A. (2020). Who let the dogs in? Lap dogs, canid sacrifices and funerary practices in the Roman cemetery of Llanos del Pretorio (Córdoba, Spain). Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences Journal 12 (87), pp.1-17. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-020-01033-1 SJR Q1