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Lapuente Mercadal, María Pilar
Department: Departamento de Ciencias de la Tierra
Field: Petrología y Geoquímica
Faculty: Facultad de Ciencias

Research Institute: INSTITUTO UNIVERSITARIO DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN PATRIMONIO Y HUMANIDADES (IPH)

Number of 6-year periods of research productivity evaluation
  • CNEAI research evaluation. 01/01/23
  • CNEAI research evaluation. 01/01/17
  • CNEAI research evaluation. 01/01/11
Academic position: Prof. Titular Univ.
Email: plapuent@unizar.es
ORCID number: 0000-0002-8321-2396

Research interests
  • Petrología
  • Mineralogía
  • Geoquímica
  • Materiales petreos artificiales
  • Materiales petreos naturales
  • Caracteristicas de los materiales
  • Conservacion patrimonio historico artístico
  • Conservacion de monumentos
  • Estudios sobre la antigüedad

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Dr. Lapuente has pursued a dual research career in Basic Science and in Applied Heritage studies, with a common thread in Mineralogy, Petrology, and Geochemistry. Although these two areas began in parallel, she has now focused her primary attention on the Applied field.
In Basic Science, she focused on paleovolcanism, addressing the petrogenesis of Late Hercynian andesitic rocks in the Pyrenees. In Applied Science, thanks to research projects promoted by the Institute for the Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage (now the Spanish Institute of Cultural Heritage, Ministry of Culture), she began the systematic characterization of the main marble extraction sites on the Iberian Peninsula and other historic quarries, as a step toward identifying the marbles used in Spain’s most iconic archaeological artifacts.
Her postdoctoral fellowship at various institutions in the United Kingdom marked a shift toward Archaeometry and Monument Conservation. Her collaboration with various European experts resulted in numerous publications and contributions to ASMOSIA (Association for the Study of Marble and Other Stones in Antiquity) meetings, which for a long time constituted the few references of international significance regarding Spanish marbles used in heritage sites.
TL techniques applied to ceramic building materials, developed during her time at the Laboratory of Archaeometry (University of Oxford) enabled her to link their technological properties to their chronology; this work was recognised with an award from the Spanish Mineralogical Society. The time span of the ceramic materials analysed over the years covers a broad historical record, from the earliest Neolithic periods to the Islamic ceramic productions found in the kilns of Saraqusta.   
Since the turn of the millennium, she has collaborated with the ‘Geochemical Modelling’ research group on studies of water-rock interaction, and in particular to investigate the processes associated with various pathologies affecting Architectural Heritage. In this field, the supervision of several doctoral theses addressing both the factors, causes and mechanisms of degradation, as well as the characterisation of the properties of the original geomaterials, proved of practical use in improving the formulation of stone components in conservation treatments and proposing the most appropriate interventions.
In the field of Archaeometry, the reference marble lithoteque continues to be expanded; through the application of new techniques, the use of historic Pyrenean quarries in Spanish Heritage has been recently discovered. This field is attracting growing interest due to its diverse applications in History, Museology, the authentication of archaeological artefacts, and Restoration.
She has participated in competitive international and national projects resulting in high-impact publications, served as a reviewer for SCI journals, sits on the editorial board of Archaeometry and Marmora, is an evaluator for projects in the Social Sciences (ANEP), and serves on the Executive Committee of ASMOSIA as a permanent elected member in the role of Secretary-Treasurer. She has promoted Geology, and Petrology in particular, at regional, national and international forums.


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