Eduardo Carrero Santamaría is a lecturer in History of Medieval at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, having previously been a lecturer at the universities of Oviedo and the Balearic Islands. He took his doctorate in history of art at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and masters in Restoration of Architectural Heritage at the School of Architecture of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. His main area of research is the architecyure of mesieval Europe, from the perspective of the interaction between use and function in the context of the needs generated by the daily life of the clergy and the liturgy. His main focus is on analysis of the binomial space/function in the architecture of cathedrals and monasteries, its change in use across history and how we perceive it from a 21st-century perspective. His research profile is markedly international, having been invited as a visiting professor in the universities of Coimbra (Portugal), Poitiers and Le Mans (France), École Française in Rome, the École des Hautes Études in Social Sciences, Paris, and currently, as a member of the research team of a Leverhulme Project at the University of Bristol. He is member of numerous scientific committees and has been the Principal Investigator and member of several publically funded research projects. He is a corresponding member of the Real Academia de Historia y Arte de San Quirce de Segovia and of the Academia mindoniense-auriense de San Rosendo. He is also a corresponding member of the Société Nationale des Antiquaires de France. His recent publications include: La catedral habitada. Historia funcional de un espacio arquitectónico (Barcelona: UAB, 2019); and the collection of essays Aragonia Cisterciensis. Espacio, arquitectura, música y función en los monasterios de Císter de la Corona de Aragón (Gijón: Trea, 2020).