CURRENT POSITION
November 2022 - today: PhD student in Cultural and Environmental Heritage (38° cycle, University of Bologna, Campus of Ravenna, Italy)
Project title: Digital approaches for the study of hominin remains (supervisor Prof. Stefano Benazzi, co-supervisor Dr. Rita Sorrentino)
EDUCATION
2019 – 2022: M.Sc. Biodiversity and Evolution (LM-6) at University of Bologna, Italy (110/110 cum laude)
Thesis title: Biological affinities of Celtic communities from Hungary with Bronze and Iron Age Italian contexts: new insights on Celtic migration in Italy through the analysis of non-metric dental traits (supervisor Prof. Stefano Benazzi, co-supervisors Prof. Tamás Hajdu, Prof. Eugenio Bortolini, Dr. Rita Sorrentino)
2016 – 2019: B.Sc. Biological Sciences (L-13) at University of Bologna, Italy
Thesis title: Variazioni nelle frequenze delle patologie dento-alveolari tra Etruschi e Celti nella necropoli di Monte Bibele (Bologna, fine V secolo a.C. - inizio II secolo a.C.) (supervisor Prof. Stefano Benazzi, co-supervisor Dr. Rita Sorrentino)
TRAINING ACTIVITIES
February 2023: School of Paleoanthropology, University of Perugia
November 2020 - October 2021: Internship for M.Sc. at Bones Lab, Department of Cultural Heritage, UniBo, supervisor Prof. Stefano Benazzi
March 2021 - June 2021: Traineeship for M.Sc. abroad with Erasmus Traineeship grant at Hungarian Natural History Museum and Eötvös Loránd University, Department of Biological Anthropology (Budapest), supervisor Prof. Tamás Hajdu.
February 2020: School of Paleoanthropology, University of Perugia
March 2019 - May 2019: Internship for B.Sc. at Bones Lab, Department of Cultural Heritage, UniBo, supervisor Prof. Stefano Benazzi
EXCAVATIONS
June - July 2023: Prehistoric excavation at the site of Grotta della Lea (Nardò, Lecce), conducted by the University of Bologna and the University of Siena.
CONGRESSES AND CONFERENCES
September 21st - 23rd 2023: "13th ESHE conference" at University of Aarhus, European Society for the Study of Human Evolution (ESHE), Denmark.
Poster title: Erica Piccirilli, Rita Sorrentino, Matteo Romandini, Luca Bondioli, Flavio Cognigni, Angelica Ferracci, Owen Alexander Higgins, Maurizio Gatta, Stefano Magri, Michaela Lucci, Alessia Nava, Francesca Seghi, Antonino Vazzana, Emanuela Cristiani, Marco Rossi, Mario Federico Rolfo, Alfredo Coppa, Francesco Di Mario, Paola Zaio, David Caramelli, Giorgio Manzi, Mauro Rubini, Stefano Benazzi, New human teeth from the Neanderthal site of Guattari Cave (San Felice Circeo, Latium, Italy).
September 6th - 8th 2023: "XXV Congress of the Italian Anthropological Association. ESSERI UMANI" at Università degli Studi di Torino, Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita e Biologia dei Sistemi, Associazione Antropologica Italiana (AAI), Italy.
Oral contribution title: Erica Piccirilli, Matteo Romandini, Rita Sorrentino, Luca Bondioli, Flavio Cognigni, Angelica Ferracci, Owen Alexander Higgins, Maurizio Gatta, Stefano Magri, Michaela Lucci, Alessia Nava, Francesca Seghi, Antonino Vazzana, Emanuela Cristiani, Marco Rossi, Mario Federico Rolfo, Alfredo Coppa, Francesco Di Mario, Paola Zaio, David Caramelli, Giorgio Manzi, Mauro Rubini, Stefano Benazzi, Preliminary observation on the human teeth from Grotta Guattari (San Felice Circeo, Latium, Italy): morphological and paleopathological analyses.
September 7th - 10th 2022: “XXIV Congress of the Italian Anthropological Association. Il prossimo uomo. Storia naturale di geni, forme e funzioni fra passato e futuro dell’umanità” at Museo dell’Università “G. d’Annunzio” di Chieti, Associazione Antropologica Italiana (AAI), Italy.
Oral contribution title: Piccirilli E., Sorrentino R., Bortolini E., Lugli F., Cavazzuti C., Conti S., Silvestrini S., Gottarelli A., Belcastro M.G., Hajdu T., Benazzi S., Biological affinities of Celtic communities from Hungary with Bronze and Iron Age Italian contexts: new insights on Celtic migration in Italy through the analysis of non-metric dental traits.
GRANTS
2023: ESHE student travel grant. 13th ESHE conference at University of Aarhus, European Society for the Study of Human Evolution (ESHE), Denmark.
2021: Erasmus+ Traineeship grant. Hungarian Natural History Museum and Eötvös Loránd University, Department of Biological Anthropology (Budapest).
