Dr. José Carlos López-Gómez holds a postdoctoral position at the University of Málaga (Spain). He is currently on a three-month research stay at CEDRR under the supervision of Tomáš Glomb. His main research interests are the analysis of the factors that explain the transmission of cults and ritual expressions in Roman Hispania, as well as the phenomenon of the Christianisation of rural areas in Iberia, through the analysis of translocal connectivities and networks by using GIS.
Aleš Chalupa, Tomáš Glomb, and Juraj Sarkisjan published the article: Stations of the Publicum Portorium Illyrici are a Strong Predictor of the Mithraic Presence in the Danubian Provinces: Geographical Analysis of the Distribution of the Roman Cult of Mithras in Open Archaeology.
In this short text, Tereza looks back at the experience of attending summer schools focusing on quantitative methods and evaluates how beneficial it was for her research and self-development in the Study of religions.
