Place of Birth: Faenza (Italy)

Date of Birth: 11/08/1977

Citizenship: Italian

Languages: Italian - English

Education:
May 4th 2007: Ph.D. at the Department of Anthropology, University of Bologna, Italy.
Thesis topic: “Image analysis in the morphological and morphometric study of teeth”.
28/06-08/07 2005: B i o s t A T 2 0 0 5, International Summer School on Statistical Inference in Biology and Human Sciences, XII course, Asti.
21/06-25/06 2004: B i o s t A T 2 0 0 4, International Summer School on Statistical Inference in Biology and Human Sciences, XI course, Asti.
December 2002: Graduated in “Conservation of Cultural Heritage” (with honors), Archaeological field, with a Paleoanthropological dissertation (University of Bologna).

Academic Positions
2009 Postdoctoral position at the Department of Anthropology - University of Vienna.
2008 Postdoctoral Marie Curie Fellow (EVAN: European Virtual Anthropology Network) at the Senckenberg Research Institute, Department of Palaeoanthropology and Messel Research, Frankfurt am Main – Germany.
2004-2007 Tutor at the Faculty of Conservation of Cultural Heritage (University of Bologna), for the Archaeological course.
2004-present Member of the examination committee for Anthropology, Human Palaeontology, Prehistoric Ecology, Ecology and Dynamics of the Human Populations and Bioarchaeology (University of Bologna).

Fellowships
2007 Research fellowship funded by the “Fondazione Giovanni Dalle Fabbriche” of Faenza (Italy) for the analysis and the identification of the human skeleton remains of Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494).
2004-2006 Research fellowship funded by the Centro Universitario Cattolico (CUC) for the project “Image Analysis for the Morphological And Morphometric Study Of Teeth”.

Academic Awards
Student prize for best oral presentation, European Anthropological Assoc. - Budapest 2006

Teaching experience
2006-2008 Lecturer at the University of Bologna, Faculty of Conservation of Cultural Heritage:
• 2006 Prehistoric ecology.
• 2007 Virtual anthropology.
• 2008 Virtual anthropology.

Thesis co-supervision
Diploma theses, University of Bologna:
o Laura Buti (Supervisor: Giorgio Gruppioni): Studio odontostomatologico degli inumati della necropoli medievale di S. Martino in Rivosecco (Parma) – A.A. 2006-2007.
o Simone Gobbi (Supervisor: Giorgio Gruppioni) Homo floresiensis e il problema dell’antico popolamento dell’Indonesia e dell’Australia – A.A. 2005-2006.

Practical experience
26/12/2008 – 5/01/2009: 11th Italian archaeological expedition in the “Temple of millions of year –Amenhotep II (XVIII Dynasty) – Egypt (Western Thebes). specialized in excavation and analysis of human bones.
11/07/2008 – 28/07/2008: Rudabánya HOMINID ORIGINS PROJECT - paleontological excavation (Rudabánya, Hungary)
09/12/2007 – 30/12/2007: 10th Italian archaeological expedition in the “Temple of millions of year –Amenhotep II (XVIII Dynasty) – Egypt (Western Thebes). specialized in excavation and analysis of human bones.
22/09/2006 – 20/12/2006: Research experience at the Laboratory of Paleoantropology - University of Arkansas (Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA).
27/04/2006-01/06/2006 Iranian archaeological mission (Pasargade, Shiraz), specialized in excavation and analysis of human bones.
6/10/2005-17/11/2005 Iranian archaeological mission (Pasargade, Shiraz), specialized in excavation and analysis of human bones.
17/02/2005-17/03 2005 Iranian archaeological mission (Pasargade, Shiraz), specialized in excavation and analysis of human bones.
March/June 2002 Medieval Archaeological Excavation, Lugo (Ravenna, Italy).
9-16 September 2000 Underwater archaeology course (Peschiera del Garda, Italy).
August 2000: Mesolithic archaeological excavation in the Natural Parc of Alpe Veglia (Varzo, Piemonte, Italy).
August 1999 Medieval archaeological excavation, Poggibonsi (Siena, Italy).

Workshops
28/05–30/05/2008 Bone histology and growth + growth and development of the craniofacial complex, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC), Madrid (Spain) (EVAN workshop).
11/06–14/06/2008 Surface Scanning of soft and hard tissue, Meersburg (Germany) (EVAN workshop).
6/07–10/07/2008 Multivariate Techniques for Growth and Evolution of Form, Department of Anthropology, University of Vienna (Austria) (EVAN workshop).
23/09–26/09/2008 Workshop in R software, Innsbruck (Austria).

Collaboration to research projects
2007 Identification and analysis of the skeletal remains of the 15th century Italian humanists Pico della Mirandola and Angelo Poliziano.
Virtual anthropological reconstruction and analysis of Ferrante Gonzaga’s skeleton remains.
2006/2007: Virtual reconstruction of the mandible of the Italian poetry Dante Alighieri and 3D facial reconstruction of his face.
2005: Anthropological analysis of the skeleton remains discovered in the medieval necropolis of Colombarone (Pesaro, Italy).
2004/2005: Biodemographic study of an isolated human community of the Tuscan-Emilian Apennine.
2003/2004: Identification of the skeletal remains of the 15th century poetry Matteo Maria Boiardo.