Professor of Ancient History Joseph Remesal has been selected as recipient of an advanced grant for EPNET (Production and distribution of food During the Roman Empire:economic and political dynamics) project , linking physics with history to investigate the dynamics of trade during the Roman Empire. The project stems from one of the most important databases that exist on amphorae and epigraphy, a task that has been carried out for twenty-five years by the CEIPAC (Center of the Study of Provincial Interdependence in Classical Antiquity) and consisting of 36,000 records averaging fifteen items of information for each record.  Parallel, Dr. Albert Diaz Guilera and his fundamental physics research group PhysComp is responsible for creating theoretical models of networks and computer simulations used to extract information from this database in order to formulate and validate hypotheses on political and economic mechanisms of the Roman world.