Esther Alba Pagán

She is Full Professor at the Department of Art History at the Universitat de València.
Her line of research has been focused for almost twenty years on the study and analysis of cultural heritage, museography and art criticism. She paid special attention to contemporary painting and heritage linked to the exchange and dissemination of ideas and knowledge. In particular her work centred in the research on silk, which since then has focused on the art of diverse cultures and the application from a gender perspective.
In this sense, she started new research projects in Europe on the perception of cultural heritage and art; She was the director of the R&D Project «Women who represent, women represented: the Spanish case» (2013-2015), and the Conquest of feminine subjectivity of the Enlightenment to the Vanguards (2015-2017) and is currently a research member of the R&D Project of the call for National Excellence «Artists in Spain (1804-1939)” (HAR2017-84399).
Her second line of research focuses on the study and value enhancement of cultural heritage. In recent years of her career specialized in the field of museological studies, since she is a member of the research team of the European project EU-LAC-MUSEUMS: Museums and Community: Concepts, Experiences, and Sustainability in Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean (European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and innovation program under grant agreement).
Currently, she leads the initiatives related to the Silk Road of the Universitat de València, in the field of humanities. Based on the results of her previous research projects, dedicated to the painters trained in Valencia as designers of the silk industry, as well as her relationships with Lyon and Italy, especially textile designs, she is the main researcher, together with Marcos Fernández of the IRTIC, of the SILKNOW European project. Silk heritage in the Knowledge Society: from punched cards to big data, deep learning and visual / tangible simulations (Horizon 2020 – Research and Innovation Framework Program). She is the author of numerous articles in specialized magazines, book chapters and books in prestigious publishing houses. She has taught more than a hundred specialized conferences in America (USA and Canada) and in Europe (France and Italy).