Eduardo Herrera Malatesta is a Venezuelan archaeologist specialising in Landscape research, regional surveys, and Geographical Information Systems. He studied anthropology with a specialisation in archaeology at the Universidad Central de Venezuela (BA) and Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cientificas (MA). He then specialised in GIS in archaeology at the University College London (MSc), and later, he got his PhD in Archaeology at Leiden University. He has held postdoctoral positions at Leiden University and later at Aarhus University as a Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow. He has recently started a position as a postdoctoral researcher at Leiden University.