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Ignacio LOPEZ MARTIN.

• Postal address: Istituto Universitario Europeo. Via dei Roccettini 9, 500016 Florence (Italy). Tlf. (055) 603487. Fax: (055) 4685203.
• E-mail: imartin@iue.it
• Birthdate & place: 21/07/1969, Cercedilla (Madrid).
• Languages: Spanish (mother tongue), English (excellent), Italian (excellent), Dutch (very good), French (good) and German (basic). Good knowledge of Latin and Ancient Greek.

ACADEMIC STUDIES:

• 1997-1998.Visiting Researcher in the department of Modern History of the Katholieke Universiteit van Leuven (Belgium).
• 1994-1999 Researcher in the Department of History and Civilisation of the European University Institute, Florence (Italy). To carry out a Ph.D. thesis on The Origins of Dutch Presence in the Mediterranean. Economic War and Embargo Policy in Habsburg Spain (1580s-1620s) supervised by K.N. Chaudhuri and J. Israel.
• 1992-1993 25 credits completed to present a master's thesis within the Modern History Department at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
• 1986-1992 Bachelor's Degree in Geography and History. Early Modern History Section. Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

GRANTS:

• Sep. 1999-Sep. 2000. Researcher for the Centro de Formacion of the Bank of Spain.
• Oct. 1997-Jun.1998: 9-month grant offered by the Belgian Ministerie van de Vlaamse Gemeenschap (Ministry of the Flemish Community) together with the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs to carry out research activity during one academic year in the Katholieke Universiteit van Leuven (Belgium).
• Sep.1994-Dec. 1997: Three-year grant at the Department of history and Civilization of the European University Institute in Florence (Italy).
• Mar. 1996: "Salvador de Madariaga" grant provided by the Spanish Ministery of Foreing Affairs to carry out research activity at the Archivo General de Indias (Seville) and the Archivo Histórico Provincial de Cádiz (Cadiz)
• Sep.1994-Aug.1995: Grant offered by the Spanish Ministery of Foreing Affaires to carry out research at the Katholieke Universiteit ter Nijmegen (The Netherlands). To which I had to renounce due to the overlapping with the grant given to carry out my Phd thesis at the European University Institute (Florence).
• Jun. 1994-Jun.1995: Researcher associated to the Centro de Estudios Históricos of the C.S.I.C (proyect number 82/94) on Madrid: Lugar Central de una Red urbana, directed by Alfredo Alvar Ezquerra
• Sep.1991-Jun.1992: Erasmus grant offered by the Universidad Complutense de Madrid for completing my studies at the Rijks Universiteit te Utrecht (The Netherlands).

ACADEMIC & PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

• May 2000-....: Webmaster of the Department of Political and Social Sciences, European University Institute, Florence, Italy (www.iue.it/SPS/).
• Oct 1999-....: Editor, in-house publication responsible and webmaster of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, EUI, Florence (Italy). Research centre of the European Union. Paper and on-line electronic publishing of working papers, articles, and books (www.iue.it/RSC/).
• Jul 1998-Jun 1999: Employed by the Department of Tourism and Enviroment of the Town Council of Fiesole (Florence, Italy). The main tasks were the development of proyects within the 5th Framework Programme of the EU (Virtual Museum), the translation from English, French, and Spanish into Italian (and vice-versa) of texts for its website and development of Fiesole's Civic Net.
• Oct 1997-Jun 1998: Assistant of Professor Eddy Stols and professor I. Duerloo in the department of Modern History of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium).
• Mar. 1996-Jun. 1997: History Computing Laboratory Assistant of the European University Institute, Florence (Italy).
• Feb. 1994-May 1994: Assistant to Mr. Luis Cervera Vera, member of the Spanish Academy of Fine Arts of "San Fernando".

CONFERENCES:

• 6-7 Apr. 2000 Internet e la Storia di Spagna. Una rivoluzione in corso? Conference presented for the meeting Linguaggi e siti: la storia on line, organised by the Società Italiana per lo Studio della Storia Contemporanea (SISSCO), Florence 6-7 April 2000.
• 3-6 Dec. 1998 Participant at the Colloquium Les Journées de l'Euro organised by the European Commission (Albi, France 4-5 December 1998). Les Confrontations des éxperiences du passage à l'Euro. Workshop title: Les collectivités publiques Françaises et Européennes. Le cas Italien.
• 3-6 Dec. 1997 Participant at the Colloquium Albrecht & Isabella organised in Brussels by the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and sponsored by the Instituto Cervantes & the Austrian embassy in Belgium.
• 24 Nov. 1997 "Dutch trade and commerce in the Mediterranean. An unknown example of intra-European expansion". Paper presented within the workshop: Spain, The Netherlands, and England: three patterns of European expansion 1500-1800. Organised by K. N. Chaudhuri in the EUI (Florence), and with the presence of J.I. Israel.
• 15-17 Feb. 1996 Embargo and Protectionist Policies in Sixteenth-Century Hispano-Dutch Relations in the Western Mediterranean paper presented at the Second Annual ACMRS Conference organised in Phoenix (USA) by the Arizona State University within the program The future of Middle Ages and Renaissance: problems, trends and opportunities in research. This paper will be soon published in the review Mediterranean Studies.
• 16-17 Nov. 1995: Special guest at the Meeting on Economic History De Nederlanden en Castilie in de 15de en de 16de eeuw. Wederzijdse Politieke en sociaal-economische invloeden in Antwerpen (Belgium), organized by the Foundation Duques de Soria and the UFSIA (University of Antwerp).

PUBLICATIONS.

Articles:

López Martín, I.: "Internet e la storia di Spagna, tra realtà e progetti", Memoria e Ricerca (June 1999).

* López Martín, I: "Embargo and protectionist policies. Early Modern Hispano-Dutch relations in the Western Mediterranean", Mediterranean Studies, 7 (1998), pp. 191-219.

López Martín, I.: "La evolución del mercado agrario en torno al establecimiento di la corte en 1561. Una aproximación cuantitativa a partir del Archivo Histórico di Protocolos di Madrid" Anales del Instituto de Estudios Madrileños, n. 37 (1997), pp. 193-213.

Tascón, J. & López Martín, I.: "Los holandeses y la empresa pública: Huelga en la Fábrica del Rey, 1719-1720", in III Congreso Astur-gallego de Sociología. Expectativas de la Sociedad del Bienestar, Oviedo, 1996, pp. 101-112.

Translations:

• Translation from Italian into Spanish of all articles in the review Piazza della Signoria, N. 2, (Oct.-Nov. 1995). The articles dealt with the history of the transport in Tuscany (Italy).
• Translation from Dutch into Spanish and comentary of the 1718 edition by Willem van den Burge Nieuwe Historische Reisbeschrijvinge van Spanjen en Portugaal (in press).

• Since June 2000 webmaster of the SPS department, EUI, Florence (Italy)
  <http://www.iue.it/SPS/>
  Since October 1999 webmaster of the RSCAS, Florence (Italy)
  <http://www.iue.it/RSC/>
• Since 1996 webmaster of the López Martín Collection (University of Kansas). One of the first Web Pages dealing with Spanish History of the Early Modern Period (1500-1800). It includes a large collectio of previously unpublished manuscripts and maps related to Hispano-Dutch history.
  <http://raven.cc.ukans.edu/carrie/ms_room/martin_coll/welcome.html>
• Since 1997 webmaster of the civic net of the town of Cercedilla (Madrid, Spain):
  < http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/8381/>
• June 1998 webmaster and designer of the Home page and Virtual Tour for the exhibition "Albert & Isabella 1598-1621", Musée du Cinquantenaire (Brussels, Belgium) September 1998 to January 1999. The site has been recenly awared by the Belgiam journal Standaard <http://www.kmkg-mrah.be>
  <http://www.ukans.edu/carrie/ms_room/martin_coll/AI/welcome.htm>
• Since 1999 webmaster and editor of the Spanish History Index of the WWW-VL in collaboration with the Library of the European University Institute and SISSCOWEB:
  <http://www.iue.it/LIB/SISSCO/VL/hist-spain/Index.html> The largest collection of Spanish historical resources available in the internet.

OTHER SKILLS:

Environtments: DOS, W95, W98, WNT, UNIX.
Webdesign: Drumbeat 2000 (versiones ASP y E-Commerce), Dreamweaver 3.0., Front Page 98 y 2000, HotMetal 5.0, HotDog 5.0.
Graphic Design: Fireworks 3.0, Paint Shop Pro 4.0, Photoshop 5.0., CorelDraw 8.0.
Others: Filemaker, Scientific Work Place, Latex.

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