Verónica Peña Filiu is a historian interested in the role that food plays in cultural encounters of the modern era and in analyzing the factors that contribute to the emergence of new forms of eating in colonial contexts. She has been a predoctoral researcher at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain) and at the Leibniz-Institute of European History (Mainz, Germany). Verónica holds a PhD in History from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (2020) and has recently received a research fellowship at the John Carter Brown Library (Providence, United States).

Verónica has conducted research stays in archives in Spain, Italy, Mexico, and Guåhån. She has also participated in various archaeological campaigns in Guåhån (2017 and 2018) within the framework of the ABERIGUA project (Archaeology of Iberian Contact and Colonialism in Guåhån). Additionally, at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Verónica has taught courses in Modern History and the History of the Asia-Pacific region.