Helena Kirchner (Medieval History PhD) is Professor at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain). Her areas of specialization are Medieval Rural History and Archaeology and Al-Andalus Archaeology. She has conducted research projects in the Balearic Islands, Valencia, Andalucía, Catalonia and in Yemen. She is currently the director of Agrarian Medieval Archaeology Research Group (ARAEM, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona: http://grupsderecerca.uab.cat/araem/).
The most relevant line of research has been the study of farming spaces from medieval times and, particularly, from the society of al-Andalus. Also, she studies the impact of feudal conquests on the settlement patterns and on the field systems. Parallel to this main line of research, she also has carried out studies on Andalusian ceramics, especially in the Balearic Islands and in Catalonia.