Ricardo Borrero L., Ph.D., is a historian, anthropologist, and underwater archaeologist specializing in naval architecture and shipwreck research. He earned his B.A. in History with Honors from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, supported by ICANH, and completed his M.A. in Anthropology at Universidad de los Andes with funding from Colciencias, conducting research in Cartagena de Indias. He later attended the ARQUA–UNESCO International Course on Underwater Archaeology in Spain. From 2011 to 2015, he worked at INAH’s Underwater Archaeology Subdirectorate in Mexico. In 2016, he received a Fulbright scholarship to pursue a Ph.D. at Texas A&M University’s Nautical Archaeology Program, earning his degree in 2021. His doctoral research included shipbuilding studies at ShipLab and palynological analysis of shipwrecks. Borrero has taught at institutions in Colombia and Mexico and coordinated the postgraduate program in Underwater Cultural Heritage at Universidad Externado. He has served as a translator for the International Journal of Nautical Archaeology and as a UNESCO consultant. Currently, he leads research on the naval architecture of the deep-water site of the San José galleon at ICANH and co-directs a traditional shipbuilding project funded by IFEA and the British Museum. His work appears in leading maritime archaeology journals, and his first book: The Coordinate System that Preceded Descartes – Brief History of Iberian Ship Conception, Design, and Construction (1570-1712), in currently in press with Springer-Nature.