Elena Perez-Alvaro
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow, University of uam, University of Auckland, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Dr Elena Perez-Alvaro is a cultural heritage researcher specialising in underwater cultural heritage, maritime law, military heritage, and the protection and governance of heritage in contested and hostile maritime environments. She is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow, Expert Member of the ICOMOS International Committee on the Underwater Cultural Heritage, and Chair of the Blue Shield International Underwater Conflict Heritage Working Group. Her publications include the monographs Underwater Cultural Heritage: Ethical Concepts and Practical Challenges and The Hidden Hand of Underwater Cultural Heritage: Submerged Intelligence for Global Omens, as well as the edited volume Voices from the Sea: Human Rights and Ocean Heritage, alongside numerous peer-reviewed articles and book chapters across heritage, law, international relations and geopolitics.
