Patricia Murrieta

Dr. Patricia Murrieta is co-director of the Digital Humanities Centre and a full professor (Chair) in digital humanities in the History Department at Lancaster University in the UK. Her research focuses on the development of artificial intelligence to study Latin American colonial history, geographical spaces, and temporal dimensions using technologies derived from machine learning.

Patricia has been the principal investigator (PI) of multiple internationally funded projects, such as TAP/ESRC/CONACyT’s Digging into Early Colonial Mexico, AHRC/NEH’s Unlocking the Colonial Archive, and her current ESRC-UKRI project Fleets of New Spain: Delving into Three Centuries of Socioeconomic History through AI, among others. Her research has earned her the Martyn Jope Award from the Society for Medieval Archaeology (2017), as well as over 20 international research grants.

She is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society in the UK and served as executive board secretary of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) from 2020 to 2022, the leading global organization in the field of digital humanities. She serves as a scientific advisor to London’s Science Museum and the UK Research Infrastructure for Conservation and Heritage Science, as well as a peer reviewer for multiple research councils in the European Union, Japan, Israel, and the UK. She has also authored more than 70 articles in relevant scientific journals and has served on the editorial boards of journals such as Nature: Scientific Data and the New Digital Archaeologies Collection (F1000–Springer).

Patricia Murrieta joined Tecnológico de Monterrey as a Distinguished Professor in Digital Humanities and Artificial Intelligence for the School of Humanities and Education.

• Ph.D., Archaeological Computing, University of Southampton
• M.Sc., Archaeological Computing (with distinction), University of Southampton
• B.Sc., Archaeology (Summa cum laude), Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia

• Murrieta-Flores, P., Vega-Sánchez, R., Sánchez-Diaz, A., and Cruz-Ríos, F. (2025) Unlocking colonial records with Artificial Intelligence. Achieving the automated transcription of large-scale 16th and 17th -century Latin American historical collections STAR: Science & Technology of Archaeological Research. DOI: 10.1080/20548923.2025.2484828
• Pereda, J., Willcox, P., Candela, G., Sanchez, A., and Murrieta-Flores, P. (2025). Online Cultural Heritage as Social Machine: A Socio-Technical Approach to Digital Infrastructure and Ecosystems. International Journal of Digital Humanities. DOI:10.1007/s42803-025-00097-6
• Murrieta-Flores, P. (2024) Nepantla, between Mesoamerican time and colonial space. Reflections on the end of the world in Central Mexico. Apocalyptica, vol. 2 (2), p. 177-195. https://doi.org/10.17885/heiup.apoc.2023.2.25037
• Murrieta-Flores, P. (2023) El futuro del pasado: Algunas reflexiones sobre el desarrollo de Inteligencia Artificial en la Historia Novohispana, la Arqueología Histórica, y la descolonización tecnológica. Ichan-Tecolotl, CIESAS, 34 (371). ISSN 2683-314X.
• Candela, G., Pereda, J., Sáez, D., Escobar, P., Sánchez, A, Villa Torres, A., Palacios, A., McDonough, K., and Murrieta-Flores, P. (2023). An Ontological Approach for Unlocking the Colonial Archive. Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage. ACM. DOI 10.1145/3594727

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