Dr. Adrián Maldonado is Galloway Hoard Researcher at National Museums Scotland. He received his PhD in archaeology at the University of Glasgow in 2011, with a thesis entitled Christianity and Burial in late Iron Age Scotland, AD 400-650. He has lectured in archaeology at the universities of Glasgow and Chester, and joined the Museum in 2018 as Glenmorangie Research Fellow. Over the last decade he has been part of work reinterpreting unpublished and legacy assemblages from the early medieval monasteries of Iona and Whithorn. Most recently he published Crucible of Nations: Scotland from Viking Age to Medieval Kingdom (2021).