Gabriel García Atiénzar is a lecturer in the Department of Prehistory, Archaeology, Ancient History, Greek Philology and Latin Philology at the University of Alicante. He completed his PhD in History in 2007, obtaining the Extraordinary Doctorate Award. Her training was developed through successive stays in several research centres, among which the Department of Prehistory and Archaeology of the Autonomous University of Madrid, the Spanish School of History and Archaeology (Rome) and the Museo Nazionale Preistorico Etnografico "Luigi Pigorini" in Rome are worth mentioning.

He teaches on the Bachelor's Degree in History and on the Master's Degrees in "Professional Archaeology and Integrated Heritage Management", "History of the Mediterranean World and its Regions. From Prehistory to the Middle Ages" and "Teaching of Compulsory Secondary Education and Baccalaureate, Vocational Training and Language Teaching" of the UA. Within these programs, he has supervised more than 40 degree and master's degree final projects. He is the director of several doctoral theses, both at the UA and at the UNED and the International University of Valencia. In relation to his academic career, he has been tutor of the Tutorial Action Programme (PAT) and academic coordinator of the mobility programme (Erasmus, SICUE and Global) for the degrees in History and Humanities. In addition, he has taught in other Spanish educational institutions (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and Universidad de Murcia) and internationally (Italy and Mexico), highlighting the courses of Geographic Information Systems applied to historical research and heritage management.

In recent years he has headed different competitive research projects related to the Prehistory of Castilla-La Mancha or the Bell-Beaker in the region of Alicante. He is also PI of the R&D project "Origen y conformación del Bronce Valenciano (PID2020-115956GB-I00)" funded by the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness and FEDER and co-director of the archaeological excavations carried out at the Late Bronze Age site of Cabezo Redondo (Villena).