Alicia Valdivieso, former ‘Rolex Institute Research Fellow’ within the Archive and Exhibitions Unit at the Norman Foster Foundation (NFF), is now appointed as Head of Archives, Publications and Exhibitions.

Trained as an art and architectural historian, Valdivieso specialises in investigation, curatorship and dissemination of architecture. She holds a Master’s degree in Analysis, Theory and History of Architecture awarded by the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura (ETSAM), Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), with a thesis on residential Projects in the Expansion of Madrid, and a Diploma in Archival Specialisation: Document Management in a Digitalised World from the UNED. Valdivieso combines her research work in the field of publications, exhibitions, archives and architecture, fields in which she has been developing her professional career for over a decade.