EDUCATION
2025 - PhD in Cultural and Environmental Heritage, University of Bologna, Excellent cum laude (supervisor: Prof. Stefano Benazzi; co-supervisor: Prof. Eugenio Bortolini, Prof. Federico Lugli)
2020 - MA in Science of Nature and Man, Anthropological Sciences curriculum, University of Florence, 110/110 cum laude (supervisor: Prof. Jacopo Moggi-Cecchi, co-supervisor: Prof. Alessandro Riga)
2018 - BA in Natural Sciences, University of Florence, 110/110 cum laude (supervisor: Prof. Jacopo Moggi-Cecchi)
RESEARCH APPOINTMENTS
2025 - Research Fellow, Department of Cultural Heritage, University of Bologna. ERC SyG n.101118565 – LAST NEANDERTHALS project
RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
2022 - Visiting at the Bioarchaeology Lab (BB-LAB), Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium). Short term scientific mission grant funded by iNEAL COST Action. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Christophe Snoeck
2021 - Postgraduate internship funded by the Erasmus+ Traineeship programme at the Department of Palaeoanthropology, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen (Germany). Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Katerina Harvati
GRANTS
2023 - ESHE Student Travel Grant
2022 - Integrating Neandertal Legacy: From Past to Present (CA19141). Short-Term Scientific Mission
2021 - Erasmus+ scholarship
EXCAVATION ACTIVITIES
2025 - Archaeological excavation at the sites of Halban and Romail Shelter (Oman) led by the University of Bologna
2024 - Archaeological excavation at the site of Halban (Oman) led by the University of Bologna
2023 - Archaeological excavation at the site of Grotta della Lea (Nardò, Lecce) led by the University of Bologna and Siena
2023 - Archaeological excavation at the site of Halban (Oman) led by the University of Bologna
2022 - Archaeological excavation at the site of Uluzzo C (Nardò, Lecce) led by the University of Bologna
2020 - Archaeological excavation at the medieval site of Castel di Mura (San Marcello Piteglio, Pistoia) led by the Valle Lune Association
2020 - Archaeological excavation at the Artofago Cave (Ravi, Grosseto) led by the University of Florence
2019 - Field-work of geo-paleontological research at Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania) led by the University of Perugia (Project THOR, Tanzania Human Origins Research)
OTHER ACTIVITIES
- Peer reviewer for international journals
- Since 2023 Cultore della Materia (Physical anthropology and Paleoanthropology)
- Since 2023 member ESHE (European Society for the study of Human Evolution)
- Since 2022 member AAI (Associazione Antropologica Italiana)
- Since 2023 member “Italian Anthropological Mission for the Heritage of the Arabian Peninsula – IAMHAL” project, PI Prof. Eugenio Bortolini, Prof. Stefano Benazzi
- 2022 - 2026: member of PRIN 2022 “Tracing early Homo sapiens in Italy – TRACE”, PI Prof. Stefano Benazzi and Prof. Adriana Moroni
CONFERENCES (selection)
2024 - 14th annual ESHE meeting (European Society for the Study of Human Evolution),Zagreb, Croatia
2023 - 58th Riunione Scientifica of Istituto Italiano di Preistoria e Protostoria, Perugia
2023 - Conference "Abissi nel tempo" - La Grotta di Lamalunga, L'Uomo di Neanderthal, Altamura, Apulia
2023 - 13th annual ESHE meeting (European Society for the Study of Human Evolution), Aarhus, Denmark
2023 - XXV Conference of the Italian Anthropological Association (AAI) "Essere Umani", Turin
2022 - XXIV Conference of the Italian Anthropological Association (AAI) "The next man. Natural history of genes, forms and functions between humanity's past and future" at the G. d'Annunzio University Museum in Chieti
2022 - 2nd Virtual Conference for Women, Archaeologists and Paleontologists
LANGUAGE SKILLS
Italian - Mother tongue
English - Level C1
German - Elementary
