Giuseppe Briatico

Giuseppe Briatico is a research fellow in the project FIS 2“POOL – Investigating cultural and biological scenarios of late Neanderthals and Homo sapiens in Poland”, led by Prof. Andrea Picin. The project is based at the Department of Chemistry “G. Ciamician”, Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna (Italy).

Giuseppe was trained as a prehistoric archaeologist at Sapienza University of Rome (Italy), where he earned in 2022 a PhD in Archaeology and Geosciences in co-tutelle with the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen (Germany). Between 2023 and 2025, he held research fellowships at the Institute of Archaeology of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel) and the Department of Anthropology at the University of Connecticut (U.S.A.).

Throughout his academic training and research experience, Giuseppe has specialized in developing specific approaches for reconstructing past environments, through the stable isotope analysis (carbonates and phosphates) of dental enamel and plant lipids from sediments in Pleistocene contexts across Europe, Africa, and the Middle East.