Vera Moya Sordo is a Mexican archaeologist and historian interested in shipwreck processes, daily life, fears, and mutinies on board ships, as well as the services of European navies, coast guards, and privateering. She has been a researcher at the University of Navarra (UNAV), a collaborator with the Subdirectorate of Underwater Archaeology of the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH, Mexico), a tutor for the Nautical Archaeology Society (UK), and is currently a member of the international research group Red Imperial Contractor State Group (UNAV), which studies the role of society in the development of warfare and state-building in the Early Modern period. For her master's and doctoral studies in History at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Vera Moya received awards such as the Marcos and Celia Maus Prize and the Alfonso Caso Medal for University Merit (UNAM). For his most recent research on Corsicans, he received financial support from NextGenerationEU, through the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, State Research Agency, Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan (UNAV, Pamplona), and previously the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and Carl Friedrich von Siemens Research Fellowship (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich).