Irene García Losquiño is a María Zambrano Research Fellow at the University of Santiago de Compostela.
She received her PhD on runology from University of Aberdeen in 2013 and, since then, she has worked in institutions in Sweden, Scotland and Spain, including a postdoctoral Bernadotte Fellowship at the Onomastics Department at the University of Uppsala. She has written an award-winning book The Early Runic Inscriptions: Their Western Features and many academic articles on the viking southern diaspora. She has also featured in the documentary series Real Vikings, has been interviewed in many podcasts, has written for magazines like History National Geographic and is an experienced international public speaker and writer.