Joan Gómez Pallarès

Director General of Research at the Government of Catalonia Department of Research and Universities, Joan Gómez Pallarès is Professor of Latin Literature at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), where he has been Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters. He has also been Vice-President of the Consortium of University Libraries of Catalonia and has headed the Catalan Institute of Classical Archaeology. He has led more than thirty national and international research projects and is author of almost three hundred bibliographical references on Latin codicology and computational manuscripts, Latin literature and epigraphy, Roman gastronomy, history of ideas, and history and anthropology of wine in antiquity. In recognition of his contribution to research, he was awarded the Narcís Monturiol Medal of the Generalitat (Government) of Catalonia in 2018.