Marta Del Mastro Ochoa holds a degree in Archaeology from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (2014), a master’s in Nautical and Underwater Archaeology from the University of Cádiz (2018), and specialized training in the application of geographic information technologies in archaeology (CSIC–Instituto de Arqueología de Mérida and University of Santiago de Compostela, 2017). In 2025, she earned her PhD from the University of Alicante through the Philosophy and Arts Program (Archaeology), with a dissertation focused on the use of information technologies to model maritime cultural landscapes.

Among her publications are Al-Ándalus desde el mar. Una aproximación al sistema portuario andalusí (2020) and Anclas líticas en el País Vasco. Catálogo de anclas líticas recuperadas en la costa guipuzcoana (Intxaustegi and Del Mastro, 2022). She collaborated on the Proyecto LIMOS: Arqueología del cambio social en las comarcas meridionales de la Comunidad Valenciana, directed by Professor Sonia Gutiérrez Lloret, contributing to the study Estudio histórico del paisaje marítimo de la Bahía de Guardamar-Playa del Moncayo, Alicante (entre Santa Pola y Torrevieja).

She is currently a member of the research group Proyecto SeDes. Entre Ilici e Iyyuh: vivir, producir y consumir en la Alta Edad Media (siglos V al X d.C.) (FEDER), led by Victoria Amorós and Sonia Gutiérrez Lloret, where she conducts research on maritime cultural landscape archaeology between the 7th and 9th centuries.

Her academic career includes two notable research stays. The first took place at the INCIPIT of the Spanish National Research Council (Santiago de Compostela), under the supervision of Dr. César Parcero-Oubiña, where she received advanced training in the application of GIS to archaeological research. The second was in Lisbon, under the scientific direction of Dr. José Bettencourt (CHAM–Universidade Nova de Lisboa), where she participated in projects documenting endangered nautical and port-related remains, such as the Boavista 5 shipwreck. In this context, she specialized in archaeological recording techniques including planimetry, photogrammetry (both stratigraphic and single-shot), and 3D scanning.

Her professional career is multidisciplinary and internationally oriented, encompassing both terrestrial and maritime commercial archaeology, with a strong focus on nautical and port remains. Her experience includes underwater monitoring in offshore projects, highlighting her solid maritime and underwater training.

In addition, she has worked actively in the dissemination and protection of maritime historical heritage. Notably, she took part in the cross-border Franco-Spanish program Urpeko Ondarea, which promotes awareness of the underwater archaeological heritage of the Basque Country (Spain and France), combining geophysical surveys and diving operations to identify and safeguard at-risk underwater heritage sites.