Giuseppe Briatico

• Personal information

  Family name, first name: Briatico Giuseppe

  Date of birth: 13/02/1992 | Nationality: Italian | Gender: Male

  E-mail: Giuseppe.bria@gmail.com

  ORCID: 0000-0003-4752-3856

• Professional experiences

  Postdoctoral Fellow (01/10/2025 - ongoing)

  Department of Chemistry “G. Ciamician”

  University of Bologna (Italy)

  PI: Prof. Andrea Picin

  Postdoctoral Fellow (01/10/2023 - 30/09/2025)

  The Lady Davis Fellowship Trust at The Institute of Archaeology, Department of Prehistory, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel)

  PI: Prof. Erella Hovers

  Affiliate Researcher (01/10/2023 - 28/02/2026)

  Department of Anthropology, University of Connecticut (U.S.A.)

  Supervisor: Prof. Gideon Hartman

  Laboratory Assistant (01/03/2022 - 30/11/2022)

  Biogeology Research Group, Department of Geosciences, University of Tübingen (Germany)

  Supervisor: Prof. Hervé Bocherens

  Professional tour guide (01/03/2015 - 30/09/2018)

  Museum of Casal de’ Pazzi, Pleistocene deposit (Rome)

  Visit tours and lab activities in collaboration with Arx Società Cooperativa

• Teaching

  Istituto Italiano di Cultura (Addis Ababa) (24/11/2024 - 30/11/2024)

  “Training course on Prehistory and UNESCO archaeological sites for the Ethiopian Tourist Guides Professional Association”

  Tourist guides from local professional associations (one-week course).

  Sapienza University of Rome (Italy) (25/11/2020)
  “Combining archaeology and stable isotopes”

  Undergraduate and graduate students in Prehistoric Ecology (two-hour lecture).

  Sapienza University of Rome (Italy) (14/05/2019)
  “Stable carbon and oxygen isotopic analysis: theoretical principles, methodology and case studies”

  Undergraduate and graduate students in Paleolithic Archaeology (two-hour lecture).

• Education

  Ph.D. in Archaeology and Geosciences (01/11/2018 - 31/01/2022; defence: 26/04/2022)

  Sapienza University of Rome (Italy) and Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen (Germany) (co-tutorship)

  Supervisors: Profs. Margherita Mussi and Hervé Bocherens

  Final mark: very good

  MA in Archaeology (Prehistory and Protohistory) (11/07/2018)

  Sapienza University of Rome (Italy)

  Supervisor: Prof. Margherita Mussi; Co-supervisor: Prof. Hervé Bocherens

  Final mark: 110 cum laude/110

  BA in Archaeology (20/03/2015)

  Sapienza University of Rome (Italy)

  Supervisor: Prof. Margherita Mussi

  Final mark: 107/110

• Awards and grants

  - Research Grant, The Leakey Foundation ($ 14.410) (01/02/2026 - 30/09/2026)

  - Research Grant, The International Union for Quaternary Research (€ 11.000) (01/05/2025 - 31/12/2025)

  - Writing Grant, British Institute in Eastern Africa (£ 3.000) (01/06/2023 - 31/08/2023)

  - Research Grant, Sapienza University of Rome (€ 5.000) (01/09/2021 - 30/11/2021)

  - Research Grant, Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (€ 5.000) (01/03/2021 - 31/07/2021)

  - Research Grant, Centre français des études éthiopiennes (€ 700) (25/11/2019 - 12/12/2019)

  - Research scholarship, Sapienza University of Rome (€ 4.000) (01/09/2017 - 30/11/2017)

• Major projects

  - The Early Pleistocene site of Melka Wakena, Ethiopian Highlands (2023 - ongoing)

  PI: Prof. Erella Hovers (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

  Funding: National Geographic Society ($ 30.000), Fritz Thyssen Foundation ($ 305.000), Gerda Henkel Foundation ($ 42.800), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem ($ 96.000), Wenner-Gren Foundation ($ 30.000), Leakey Foundation ($ 12.500)

  Role: team member (stratigraphic excavation and stable isotope analysis).

  -Italo - Spanish Archaeological Mission at Melka Kunture and Balchit (2019 – ongoing)

  PI: Prof. Margherita Mussi (Sapienza University of Rome)

  Funding: Italian Foreign Ministry (€ 30.000), Palarq Foundation (€ 45.000), Leakey Foundation (€ 20.000)

  Role: team member (stratigraphic excavation and stable isotope analysis).

  - Italian Archaeological Mission at Melka Kunture and Balchit (2018 - 2019)

  PI: Prof. Margherita Mussi (Sapienza University of Rome)

  Funding: “Grandi Scavi archeologici” by Sapienza University of Rome (€ 80.000), Italian Foreign Ministry (€ 10.000)

  Role: team member (stratigraphic excavation and stable isotope analysis)

• Research stays

  - University of Connecticut, Department of Anthropology, U.S.A. (01/05/2025 - 30/07/2025): pretreatment and isotopic analyses of enamel samples from Melka Wakena and Gadeb

  - University of Connecticut, Department of Anthropology, U.S.A. (15/01/2024 - 15/04/2024): pretreatment and isotopic analyses of enamel samples from Melka Wakena, Gadeb, Beefa Cave, Ambrona and Valdocarros

  - National Museum of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, Africa (26/10/2023 - 20/11/2023): sampling for isotopic analysis of the fossil dental remains from Melka Wakena, Gadeb and Beefa Cave

  - Museo Numantino, Soria, Spain (15/07/2023 - 22/07/2023): sampling for isotopic analysis of the fossil dental remains from Ambrona and Valdocarros

  - University of Tübingen, Department of Geosciences, Germany (01/10/2022 - 15/12/2022): pretreatment and isotopic analyses of enamel samples from Melka Kunture; writing of scientific papers and research proposals

  - National Museum of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, Africa (11/06/2022 - 09/07/2022): sampling for isotopic analysis of the fossil dental remains from Melka Kunture

  - University of Tübingen, Department of Geosciences, Germany (01/03/2021 - 20/05/2022): lab work; writing of the Ph.D. thesis, scientific papers and research proposals

  - Museo di Casal de’ Pazzi, Roma, Italy (06/07/2020 - 10/07/2020): sampling for isotopic analysis of the fossil dental remains from Casal de’ Pazzi

  - University of Cagliari, Department of Geology, Italy (13/01/2020 - 17/01/2020): carbonate analyses of soil samples from Melka Kunture

  - National Museum of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, Africa (25/11/2019 - 12/12/2019): sampling for isotopic analysis of the fossil dental remains from Melka Kunture

  - University of Tübingen, Department of Geosciences, Germany (01/09/2019 - 31/10/2019): pretreatment and isotopic analyses of enamel samples from Melka Kunture; writing of scientific papers and research proposals

  - Museum d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France (01/07/2019 - 11/07/2019): sampling for isotopic analysis of the fossil dental remains from Melka Kunture

  - National Museum of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, Africa (15/10/2018 - 30/11/2018): sampling for isotopic analysis of the fossil dental remains from Melka Kunture

• Archaeological excavations

  - Melka Wakena (Africa, Ethiopia) (21/04/2024 - 22/05/2024)

  - Melka Kunture (Africa, Ethiopia) (19/01/2023 - 16/02/2023)

  - Hayonim Cave (Upper Galilee, Israel) (20/08/2022 - 19/09/2022)

  - Melka Kunture (Africa, Ethiopia) (05/02/2017 - 25/02/2017)

  - Melka Kunture (Africa, Ethiopia) (01/11/2018 - 30/11/2018)

  - Melka Kunture (Africa, Ethiopia) (01/10/2019 - 31/10/2019)

  - Riparo Blanc (Lazio, Italy) (10/07/2016 - 25/07/2016)

  - Grotta di Pozzo (Abruzzo, Italy) (01/07/2014 - 31/07/2014)

  - Grotta di Pozzo (Abruzzo, Italy) (01/07/2013 - 31/07/2013)

• Memberships in Scientific Societies

- Society of Africanist Archaeologists (since 2024)

- Eastern Africa Association for Palaeoanthropology and Palaeontology (since 2024)

- European Association of Archaeologists (since 2023)

- European Society of the Study of Human Evolution (since 2021)