Stefano Benazzi

Stefano Benazzi is a physical anthropologist specializing in paleoanthropology and osteoarchaeology. His research focuses on the analysis of human skeletal remains from archaeological contexts, applying rigorous scientific approaches to reconstruct individual biological profiles, lifeways, and health conditions in past populations. He adopts a multidisciplinary framework to investigate human evolution, with particular emphasis on its most recent phases, including the origin and dispersal of Homo sapiens across Eurasia and the processes underlying the extinction of other human groups (e.g., the Neanderthals). In 2017, he founded the BONES Lab at the University of Bologna, a research facility dedicated to the study of human evolution that integrates traditional and cutting-edge methodologies (osteoarchaeological and histological analyses, advanced digital techniques and paleoproteomics). He is the recipient of several prestigious national and international research grants, including an ERC CoG and an ERC SyG. He currently leads an interdisciplinary research team engaged in frontier research on human evolution.

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