Xavier Rubio Campillo

Xavier Rubio Campillo

Researcher Ramon i Cajal program

ORCID: 0000-0003-4428-4335
Scopus Author ID: 53867286000
Researcher ID: O-4182-2014

Research group:

Teaching Innovation Groups: CLIOGEN - Grup d'Innovació Docent sobre Gènere i Història

Contact Information
Department of Applied Didactics
Campus Mundet, Edifici Llevant, Passeig de la Vall d'Hebron, 171, despatx 125
934035006
xrubio(a)ub.edu

Academic Training

Didàctica de les CCSS i del Patrimoni . Universitat de Barcelona . 08/06/2009 . (Ph.D.)
Enginyeria Superior en Informàtica . Universitat Pompeu Fabra . 30/06/2003 . (Diploma / Degree / Activities)

Teaching imparted (last 6 courses)

GIS and spatial analysis for archaeologists (University Master's Degree) - MSc in GIS & Archaeology - University of Edinburgh.
Quantitative Methods and Reasoning for Archaeologists (University Master's Degree) - MSc in Osteoarchaeology - University of Edinburgh.
Patrimoni i Cultura Digital (University Master's Degree) - Gestió del Patrimoni Cultural i Museologia - Universidad de Barcelona.
Exploring the past with data science (University Master's Degree) - MSc in Archaeology - University of Edinburgh.

Projects and Other Grants (last 6 years)

ERC Advanced Grant EPNet (Production and Distribution of Food during the Roman Empire: Economic and Political Dynamics) . 2014 - 2018 . Ref.340828 . Advanced Grant . PI: José Remesal
SIMULPAST. Social and environmental transitions: Simulating the past to understand human behaviour . 2010 - 2017 . Ref.CSD2010-00034 . Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MICINN) . PI: Marco Madella
Contracte del Programa Ramon y Cajal . 2020 - 2025 . Ref.RYC-2018-024050 . Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad . PI: Maria Feliu Torruella; Xavier Rubio Campillo
Towards an integrated framework of cultural adaptation: social dynamics and environment in prehistoric Shetland . 2017 - 2018 . Ref.G790CH . University of Edinburgh . PI: Xavier Rubio-Campillo

Periodic Journal Publications (last 6 years)

Rubio Campillo, X.; Montanier, J. M.; Rull, G.; Bermúdez Lorenzo, J. M.; Moros Díaz, J.; Pérez González, J.; Remesal Rodríguez, J. (2018). The ecology of Roman trade. Reconstructing provincial connectivity with similarity measures. Journal of Archaeological Science, 92, pp. 37 - 47 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 0305-4403
Hernández-Cardona, F. X.; Rubio-Campillo, X.; Besolí, A.; Íñiguez, D.; Sospedra-Roca, R. (2019). Forgotten Pilots, Airfields and Aircraft: A Transdisciplinary Approach to the Memory of the Republican Air Force During the Spanish Civil War (1936-39). Public Archaeology, 18(1), pp. 3 - 27 . https://doi.org/10.1080/14655187.2019.1784664 . ISSN: 1465-5187
Rubio-Campillo, X.; Coto-Sarmiento, M.; Pérez-Gonzalez, J.; Remesal Rodríguez, J. (2017). Bayesian analysis and free market trade within the Roman Empire. Antiquity, 91(359), pp. 1241 - 1252 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 0003-598X

Not Periodic Others Publications (last 6 years)

Rubio-Campillo, X. (2020). Gameplay as Learning: The Use of Game Design to Explain Human Evolution . In Communicating the Past in the Digital Age: Proceedings of the International Conference on Digital Methods in Teaching and Learning in Archaeology . (pp. 45 - 58) . Ubiquity Press .
Rubio-Campillo, X. (2018). El papel de la simulación en la arqueología actual . In Arqueología Computacional: nuevos enfoques para la documentación, análisis y difusión del patrimonio cultural . (pp. 51 - 58) . CONACYT . ISBN: 978-607-539-027-7 .
Rubio-Campillo, X.; Caro Saiz, J.; Pongiluppi, G.H.; Laborda, G.; Ramos, D. (2017). Explaining archaeological research with videogames: The case of Evolving Planet . In The Interactive Past: A Book on Video Games and Archaeology . (pp. 153 - 165) . Sidestone Press, Leiden, Netherlands . ISBN: 978-9088904363 .
Pujol, A.; Fernández-Götz. M.; Sala, R.; Padrós, C.; Ble, E.; Tamba, R.; Rubio-Campillo, X. (2019). Archaeology of the Roman Civil Wars: The destruction of Puig Ciutat (Catalonia, Spain) and Caesar's campaign in Ilerda (49 BC) . In Julius Caesar's Battle for Gaul. New Archaeological Perspectives. . (pp. 227 - 240) . Oxbow Books Publishers, Oxford, UK . ISBN: 978-1-78925-050-3 .

Participations in congresses (last 6 years)

Rubio-Campillo, X. (2019). How do I know if I am wrong?. (Invited conference) . Research approaches to Rock Art . Edinburgh . UNITED KINGDOM
Rubio-Campillo, X. (2019). Education or fun? Creating video games to promote archaeological thinking. (Presentation of communication) . Theoretical Archaeology Group Conference . London . UNITED KINGDOM
Rubio-Campillo, X. (2018). The use of computer simulation to understand historical dynamics. (Invited conference) . Methods for the study of the medieval world: new approaches from Digital Humanities . Barcelona . SPAIN
Rubio-Campillo, X. (2018). Why did they fight here? Using computational methods to provide context to conflict sites. (Presentation of communication) . From battlefields to memory sites: Conflict archaeology through the ages . Barcelona . SPAIN
Rubio-Campillo, X. (2020). Data, patterns & narratives. New approaches to the Spanish Civil War using open data visualization. (Invited conference) . The Uncomfortable Past: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Spanish Civil War . Edinburgh . UNITED KINGDOM

Directed Thesis, Minor thesis and Research Reports (last 6 years)

Simon Carrignon . (2019) . Content-dependent biases in social learning strategies: A multiscale approach (Ph.D. Thesis) . Universitat Pompeu Fabra.
Audrey Scardina . (2019) . Ecclesiastical Architecture and Settlement in Byzantine Lycia (Ph.D. Thesis) . University of Edinburgh.
María Coto-Sarmiento . (2020) . Cuantificando el cambio cultural: Una aproximación evolutiva a la producción de ánforas de aceite de oliva en la zona de la Bética (ss. I-III d.C.) (Ph.D. Thesis) . Universitat de Barcelona.