Paolo Forlin

Paolo is an assistant professor in medieval archaeology.

He recently completed a 3-year MSCA project called WasteLands [http://site.unibo.it/wastelands/en] (Waste lands? New perspectives on the archaeology of post-disaster recovery in medieval Europe) under the co-supervision of Andrea Augenti (University of Bologna, Italy) and Matthew Johnson (Northwestern University, USA). Previously, he was a research associate and Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow in the Department of Archaeology of Durham University (UK) and a research associate at the University of Franche-Comté, Besançon (France).

Paolo graduated from the University of Padua and obtained a PhD in archaeology from the University of Trento.

He focuses on the archaeology of disasters and historic landscapes, particularly in Alpine environments. His research interests encompass medieval archaeology, landscape archaeology, remote sensing, disaster studies, archaeological theory, resilience, memory, and inequality.