CURRENT POSITION
2025-present Associate Professor of Biological Anthropology, Department of Biology, University of Pisa (UNIPI), IT
PREVIOUS POSITIONS
2022-2025 Senior researcher, Department of Biology, University of Pisa (UNIPI), IT
2022-2022 Post-doctoral fellow, Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution (IPHES), Tarragona, ES
2021-2022 Post-doctoral visiting fellow, University of Tübingen, DFG Center for Advanced Studies “Words, Bones, Genes, Tools: Tracking Linguistic, Cultural and Biological Trajectories of the Human Past”, DE
2019-2021 Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow, University of York, Department of Archaeology, UK
2017-2019 Post-doctoral fellow, Sapienza University of Rome, IT
EDUCATION
2012-2016 PhD in Environmental and Evolutionary Biology (Sapienza University of Rome)
2009-2011 Master Degree in Ecobiology (Sapienza University of Rome)
TEACHING ACTIVITIES
2026-present BioR – Tools for Biologists – Doctoral-level teaching (PhD students only), UNIPI, IT
2023-present Virtual Anthropology – Master Degree in Conservation and Evolution, UNIPI, IT
2023-present Geometric Morphometrics – Bachelor Degree in Biological Sciences, UNIPI, IT
2022 Human Osteology – Master Degree in Archaeology, UNIPI, IT
INSTITUTIONAL APPOINTMENTS
2025-present Departmental Coordinator for Continuing Education
2026-present Member of the Advisory Board of Degree Program in Natural and Environmental Sciences
2025-present Member of the PhD Teaching Committee
2025-present Member of the Executive Board of the Italian Anthropological Association (AAI)
RESEARCH FUNDINGS
2024-2026 PRIN 2022 PNRR SANDRONE – Scientific investigation, virtual reconstruction and musealization of Oreopithecus bambolii: locomotor and manipulative adaptations before human evolution (€ 254’516.00)
2022-2022 Beatriu de Pinós 2020 BP 1064 General Directorate for Research in the Government of Catalonia-H2020 (€ 144’300.00)
2021-2022 Post-doctoral fellowship DFG center (University of Tübingen) (€ 12’000.00)
2019-2021 Marie Curie Individual Fellowship Grant agreement ID: 835571 H2020 (€ 212’933.76)
R PACKAGES
morphomap (maintainer): Morphometric Maps, Bone Landmarking and Cross-Sectional Geometry https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=morphomap
Arothron (maintainer): Geometric Morphometrics Analysis and Virtual Anthropology https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=Arothron
MicroWeaR (maintainer): an R package for dental microwear analysis
https://github.com/MicroWeaR
Toothnroll (maintainer): Dental Tissues Landmarking Measuring and Mapping
https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/Toothnroll/index.html
RRphylo (collaborator): Phylogenetic Ridge Regression Methods for Comparative Studies https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/RRphylo
PUBLICATIONS
Scopus
Google Scholar
ResearchGate