Alba Ferrándiz Gaudens is a postgraduate researcher at the Sainsbury Research Unit for the Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas at the University of East Anglia. Her research looks at the circulation, agency and display of objects, people and knowledge from the Mariana Islands in Spanish museums. Her thesis focuses on the history of Chamorro collections in Spanish museums, the relationships between Chamorro and Spanish institutions and cultural revitalisation of ancestral practices in the Mariana Islands.

Alba was Events Officer at the Museum Ethnographers Group, a UK-based network of practitioners and academics in museums of ethnography between 2022 and 2025. She has interned as Assistant Curator for Pacific collections at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Harvard University, and has recently been awarded the Robert D. Hevey, Jr. and Constance M. Filling Fellowship in Anthropology at the Smithsonian Institution, where she will conduct research on their Chamorro collections in partnership with Indigenous knowledge holders from the Mariana Islands.