
About me
Professor in the Department of Archaeoastronomy and Cultural Astronomy at the Faculty of Space Sciences and Director of the Institute of Archaeoastronomy, Cultural and Natural Heritage (IARPACUNA). I have been involved in astronomy activities since 1991. I am an architect with a Master's degree in Administration, a Master's degree in Social and Economic Research, a Master's degree in Territorial Planning and Management, and a PhD candidate in Geomatics Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Madrid. I am a member of the Inter-American Society for Astronomy in Culture, the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), the Advanced Geomatics Applications Research Group at the Polytechnic University of Madrid, and the Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD).
Areas of work and research: archaeoastronomy, architecture, cultural heritage, landscape, geomatics.
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Degrees:
Pineda de Carías, M., Rivera, N. and Argueta, C., Stela D: a sundial of Copán, Honduras, Ancient Mesoamerica, 28 (2017), 543-557.
Rivera, N., Characterization of the Copán sky from 400 to 900 AD - Eclipses, Space Sciences Magazine, volume 4, number 2 Fall, 2011, 42-66, http://www.lamjol.info/index.php/CE/article/view/2544