Maria Rosa Guasch Jané, studied Pharmacy (1991-1996) at the Universitat de Barcelona (UB). She holds both Masters’ degree in Nutrition and Food Science (1998) by the Universitat de Barcelona and Masters’ degree in Oriental Studies-Egyptology (2000) by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), and she obtained the research sufficiency in the Doctoral Program of “Oriental Studies: Egyptology” (2000), UAB.
She obtained her PhD degree in Pharmaceutical Science in 2005 at the Universitat de Barcelona for the doctoral thesis entitled “Wine in ancient Egypt: a cultural and analytical study”, with mention excellent cum laude by all members. She had a research contract (2001-2005) of the Fundació Bosch i Gimpera, Universitat de Barcelona. She did postdoctoral studies (2007-2011) at the Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (FCSH-UNL) in Portugal to research into the symbolism of wines related to King’s rebirth on the iconography of the ancient Egyptian tombs.
She is currently director of the “Irep en Kemet/Wine in ancient Egypt” research project (31st December 2010 - 30th April 2014) at the Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal, that aims at creating the corpus of viticulture and winemaking scenes in the Egyptian tombs through a database of the bibliography and of the scenes of viticulture and winemaking in tombs, including all the archaeological sites.