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·      1994 - 1996 joint project “Consorzio di Ricerca Arethusa”, Montalto di Castro, as responsible of Catalogue of archaeological materials at Museo Archeologico di Vulci.

·    1998-2000: collaboration with CNR (Centro Nazionale di Ricerca) – project LARA (Laboratorio Aereo Ricerche Ambientali), as consultant on archaeological processing of remote sense hyper-spectral and radar images.

·       2000-2001: worked for society Compagnia Italiana Ingegneria dei Controlli, Rome, on applied technologies for Cultural Heritage and Monumental Heritage.

2007–2013: Visiting associate research professor, CIDEHUS, Universidade de Evora, Portugal.

• 2006: Winner of the Fondation Franqui Post-doc Fellowship in Belgium (stipend of 12 months).

• 2007: FWO Post-doc Fellowship (stipend of 12 months) of research at Ghent University (B).

• 2007-2013: Invited visiting professor at the Centro Interdisciplinar de Historia, Cultura e Sociedades (CIDEHUS) at the University of Évora (Portugal), in the role of Investigador Principal.

• 2009-2012: Marie Curie Fellow (Senior Res.) in the framework of the People/IAPP Project Radio-Past.

·       2014: H2CU scholarship for a research stay at New York University, department of Classics, for a term of research activity.

• 2015/2016: recipient of the fellowship for a residency of 1 semester at the IMéRA - Institut d'études avancées, Université Aix-Marseille (6 months stipend+research budget, winner out of hundreds of applications in all scientific fields).

• 2019: winner for position of visiting professor at the École Normale Superiéure–Lyon, (stipend 2 months).

• 2020 winner of the fellowship for a research residency at the Fondation Camargo in Cassis, USA/France (1 of the 8 fellows selected over more than 1000 candidatures).

• 2020 (performed in 2021): winner of the visiting fellowship - Scientific Research Network FWO Flanders.

    o 2021 November-December: fellowship of the programme H2CU for a research stay at College Italia (New York).

    o 2022 November-December: fellowship of the programme H2CU for a research stay at College Italia (New York).

·      2012: Prize for best presentation at EUROMED2012 Conference on Cultural Heritage and New Technologies, Limassol, Cyprus, awarded by Euromed2012 Scientific Committee.

• Awarded with the funding for research in the framework of evaluation competitive call (ANVUR n. 20/2017 Azione FFABR).

     1999-2001: lecturer in Christian and Medieval Archaeology (University LUMSA)

  2001-present: lecturer in Medieval Archaeology, Ancient Topography, Landscape Archaeology (University of Cassino),

     2019-present: lecturer in Project writing, design, management and reporting.

    · January-March 2005: teaching at Ghent University in the framework of the programme Socrates – Erasmus, with a course devoted to “Late Antique Archaeology of Rome”.

    · September 2005: seminars at the University of Mohammedia (Morocco), on the topic “Recherche Topographique et Photographie Aerienne: histoire, metodologie, applications”

    · July 2010: Director of the Specialisation Forum for post-graduate and doctoral students in “Non-destructive Approaches to Complex Archaeological Sites – Desktop approaches, field survey, and remote sensing” held in Ammaia (Portugal), framework: Marie Curie IAPP Project Radio-Past.

    · July 2011: Director of the Specialisation Forum for post-graduate and doctoral students in “Non-destructive Approaches to Complex Archaeological Sites – Geo-archaeology and geophysical survey” held in Ammaia (Portugal), framework: Marie Curie IAPP Project Radio-Past.

    · June 2012: co-organiser of the “Archaeolandscapes Aerial Archaeology Summer School”, held in Merida from June 18 to 23.

    · July 2012: Director of the Specialisation Forum for post-graduate and doctoral students in “Non-destructive Approaches to Complex Archaeological Sites – Digital archaeology and 3D reconstructions” in Carnuntum (Austria), framework: Marie Curie IAPP Project       Radio-Past.

    · July 2013 Lecturer at the Erasmus Intensive Program “Preventive Archaeology”/ Development-led Archaeology. Urban sites and landscape, Ravenna (Italy).

    · June-July 2014 Lecturer at the Erasmus Intensive Program “Preventive Archaeology”/ Evaluating sites and landscapes, Ravenna-Senigallia, on the subject of “Good Practice in Archaeological diagnostics”.

    · January-February 2019: cycle of seminars about the journey in Antiquity and the Middle Ages held at ENS – Lyon.

    · April 2024: Erasmus+ fellowship at TUDublin

• 2003-2010: permanent member of the board of the doctorate in Historical Geography (coord. University of Cassino).

• 2009-2016: permanent member of the board of the doctorate in Medieval Archaeology – Societal Structures, Settlements, productions (coord. University of Aquila).

• 2009-2013: tutor of doctoral and post-doc fellowships awarded by the Fundaçao para Ciencia e Tecnologia (FCT:  Portuguese National Fund for Research).

• 2018-2021: permanent member of the doctorate in “Literary and historical sciences in the digital age” (coord. University of Cassino).

• 2021-present: permanent member of the doctorate in “Sources, texts and contexts from Antiquity to contemporary age” (coord. University of Cassino).

- 2008: International Colloquium “Changing Landscapes. The impact of Roman towns in the Western Mediterranean” – Universidade de Évora, e FCT - Castelo de Vide, Marvão (Portogallo) 15-17 maggio.

- 2009: 2nd Valle Giulia Meeting “Urban Landscape Survey”, Rome, 22-24 April.

- 2013: International Colloquium “Non-destructive approaches to complex archaeological sites in Europe: a round-up” – Ghent (Belgium), 15-17 January.

- 2016: Co-organiser of the 2° International Conference of Aerial Archaeology, Rome 3-5 February.

- 2016: convener of the session “Between the Atlantic and the Mediterranean: intersected perspectives on Lusitania”, at the Roman Archaeology Conference, Rome, Sapienza University 16-19 March.

- 2016: co-organiser of the Interdisciplinary seminar “Motivations for Motion: Lessons and Open Questions from Macro to Micro scale”, Marseille, IMéRA 30 May.

- 2016: organiser of the workshop «Landscape perception and unknown environments exploration: New perspectives into Classical and Medieval journey», Marseille, IMéRA, 2 June.

- 2016: co-organiser of the workshop “New developments in Landscape Archaeology: Communication, Visualization and Sustainability”, Marseille, IMéRA 9 June.

- 2017: co-organiser of the international workshop “Mobility & Connectivity. Challenging paradigms and methodologies in Landscape Archaeology”, Gaeta, 17 May.

- 2018: main chair of the 4th International Conference on Metrology for Archaeology and Cultural Heritage, Cassino, 22-24 October.

- 2022: organiser of the International Colloquium about Roman villas of Lazio in post-classical times. Castro dei Volsci, 15 June.

- 2024: organiser of the International Study Day “The road and the city. Genesis and transformation of the relationship between road network and urban layout in Lazio and Campania during Roman times and Late Antiquity” (Cassino, 18 April). 

- 2025: Co-organiser of the international symposium Beyond Materiality. Reframing Archaeology through Sensoriality, Digital Methods and Neurosciences, held at the Swedish Institute in Rome. The symposium was organised by Lund University (Sweden) and the Open University (UK), with support from the Swedish Institute of Classical Studies, the British School at Rome and the University of Cassino-European University of Technology (Rome, 5–7 June).

- 2003: 6th International Congress of Italian Archaeology (Groningen, 15-17 Aprile), “From oppida to castella. Settlements and Landuse in the Liri-Bassin (Southern Latium – Roman to Medieval Period)”

- 2003: XVI International Congress of Classical Archaeology (Boston, 23-26 agosto), “Before Sanctus Benedictus. Towns and countryside at the end of Classical Times in Southern Latium”

- 2003: seminars organised by the Ecole Française de Rome and the Istituto Pontificio di Archeologia Cristiana, “Il cursus publicus nella tarda antichità e l’alto medioevo: fonti letterarie ed archeologiche”.

- 2004: SPBS Spring Symposium (The Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies) in Oxford, (Oxford, 26th-29th march), “Trade and trade routes in Southern Latium from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages”

- 2004 Colloque International “Mariana et la basse Vallée du Golo” (Bastia – Lucciana, 10th -16th settembre 2004), “Notes sur l’urbanisme de Mariana à l’époque romaine”;

- 2005 Meeting COST Action A27 in Odense (University of Southern Denmark- 28th -30th may), “GIS and historical cartography: a case study”.

- Convegno Internazionale “Albenga città episcopale. Tempi e dinamiche della cristianizzazione nella Liguria di Ponente e Provenza” (Albenga 21st -23rd September 2006), “Luoghi di sosta terrestri e marittimi tra Liguria e Provenza in età tardoantica”.

- International Colloquium “Ol’Man River – Geoarchaeological aspects of rivers and river plains” (Ghent 22nd-24th September 2006) : Géoarchéologie autour de la ville romaine de Mariana et de la basse vallée du Golo (Haute-Corse, France).

- 11° Workshop «Archäologie und Computer. Kulturelles Erbe und Neue Technologien», (Vienna 18-20 Oktober 2006): Digital vs. historical cartography for studying archaeological sites: a case study from Corsica.

- IVe Colloque International "Les relations littoral-montagne. Mariana: découvertes récentes t perspectives" (Lucciana 20-21 septembre 2007, France), "A la recherche de la structure urbaine de la colonie romaine de Mariana: les données de la recherche historique et de la fouille stratigraphique".

- Museo Arqueológico Provincial de Badajoz: lecture entitled "Alguna observaciones geoarqueológicas sobre la ciudad romana de Ammaia" (29th March 2008).

- 13th Belgium-France-Italy-Romania Geomorphological Meeting "Landscape Evolution & Geoarchaeology" (Porto Heli June 18-21, 2008 Greece), "River bed changing in the lower Potenza Valley (mid-Adriatic Italy). A geo-archaeological approach to historical documents".

- XVII International Congress of Classical Archaeology, (Rome, 22nd-26th September 2008) "Urbanistica delle città romane di Corsica: l'esempio di Mariana" and "Measuring urbanisation in the Late Republican and Early Imperial landscape of Adriatic Central Italy".

- 1st Symposium on Living with Landscapes, (Cairo and Sinai 22nd - 27th November 2008), "Archaeology of a Roman landscape in Central Portugal".

-  SPA - Sanitas per Aquam. Internationales Frontinus-Symposium zur Technik- und Kulturgeschichte der antiken Thermen, Aachen (Aquisgrana) 18th - 21st March 2009, "Water in Ammaia. Infrastructures and leisure in a Roman town of Lusitania",

- 2nd Valle Giulia Meeting (Rome 22nd-24th April 2009), “Ammaia (Lusitania). A “Total Project” for Survey and Valorisation”.

- invited speaker at the Laurence Seminar “Archaeological Survey and the City” (Cambridge University, Faculty of Arts 24th – 27th May 2010): Radiography of an urban Lusitanian site: the townscape of Ammaia.

- International Colloquium "Landscape Archaeology. Egypt and the Mediterranean World" (Cairo 19th-21st September 2010): presenter of the poster entitled "Surveying the cityscape of Roman Ammaia (Alentejo, Portugal)".

- Colóquio Internacional “A queda de Roma e o alvorecer da Europa” (Coimbra, 2nd-3rd December 2010): invited speaker with a communication on “Archaeological aspects of Rome in the course of the 5th century AD”.

- 14 December 2010: Invited lecturer on the theme of “Christianization of travel” at the University of Calabria (Arcavacata di Rende, Italy).

- Invited speaker at Spring 2011 REVEAL beta-testers Workshop “The future of Excavations”, held at Brown University (Providence, USA) 6-8 may 2011, with a presentation entitled “The Ammaia project: a challenge for data integration and processing”.

- 2011: invited speaker at the session “Mobility of researchers in Europe: an endeavour for all” of the EAIE meeting in Copenhagen (13-16 September, with a contribution entitled: Reconstructing the Past in 3D: The Experience of a Marie Curie Fellow.

- speaker at the 16th International Conference on Cultural Heritage and New Technologies, November 14 – 16, 2011, Vienna, Austria: “The Roman city of Ammaia (Portugal): from total survey to 3D reconstruction”, co-authored with F. Vermeulen, M. Klein and G. Weinlinger.

- 2012.02.29: invited lecturer for the module "Nuevas Tecnologias Aplicadas al Patrimonio. Arqueologia en la Era Digital", of the High Formation Course "Modelos de intervención sobre el patrimonio cultural: investigación, protección, conservación y puesta en valor", held at Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales in Madrid, in collaboration with CSIC (Spanish national council for research), with a lecture entitled "Archaeological prospection and digital technologies".

- speaker at the Roman Archaeology Conference RAC 2012 in Frankfurt, 28th March – 1st April 2012, with a presentation entitled “Ammaia: An integrated geophysical survey of a Roman town and its suburbium in Lusitania”, (http://www.rac2012.org/images/Session_abstracts_web_110912.pdf).

- 6ª meeting EUROMED (Limassol, Cyprus 30 October - 4 November 2012): “Radiography of the Past - Three dimensional, virtual reconstruction of a Roman town in Lusitania” in collaboration with M. Klein and F. Vermeulen.

- invited speaker at Marie Curie – People Conference (Nicosia, Cyprus 5-6 November): “Radiography of the past. Non destructive approaches to complex archaeological sites”.

- 29 November 2012: Brown University (Providence, RI, USA), lecture entitled Radiography of the Past. Integrated non-destructive approaches to complex archaeological sites.

- 17 January 2013: panel at the International Colloquium “Non-destructive approaches to complex archaeological sites in Europe: a round up”, held in Ghent (Belgium), 15-17 January 2013.

- 11 march 2013: speaker at “Jornada de transferencia de resultados del proyecto Riteca 4.2.2: La revalorización del patrimonio arqueológico como recurso para el desarrollo en el área de Extremadura-Alentejo: la aplicación de técnicas de análisis no destructivas”, Mérida (Spain), with a speech entitiled "Integrating non-destructive approaches: the total survey of Ammaia (Alto Alentejo)".

- 25-29 March 2013: Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology Conference (CAA), Perth Australia. Co-author of presentations entitled “Radiography of the Past: Methodological Considerations and Suggestions for Good Practice in Archaeological Diagnostics of Complex Sites”; “Old problems and new challenges in archaeological sites data management. The REVEAL experience at Ammaia (Portugal)”; “Urban network analysis of integrated geophysical data: analysing the Roman street network of Ammaia (Marvão, Portugal)”.

- 13-17 May 2013: 18th International Congress of Classical Archaeology, Mérida. Co-author of the contributions entitled “Ammaia and the making of a Roman town: a contribution to urbanism studies in Lusitania and beyond”(with F. Vermeulen) and “The transformation and Christianization of urban and rural landscapes in central Lusitania during Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages: the case of Ammaia” (with E. Gallo).

- 6 September 2013, speaker for the series “Conferências da Ammaia, Professor José Mattoso”. Casa da Cultura em Marvão, with a lecture entitled “Six years of research in Ammaia. Building a European field laboratory for non-destructive archaeological survey” (with F. Vermeulen).

- 28 October – 1 November 2013: “Probing the limits of VR reconstructions based on full coverage urban survey of Roman towns”, in collaboration with Frank Vermeulen and Michael Klein, Digital Heritage 2013 - ARQUEOLOGICA 5th Int'l Meeting, Marseille.

- 12-13 June: invited speaker at the Projecto RITECA 2: Encontro “Revalorización de zonas arqueológicas mediante el empleo de técnicas no destructivas. Jornada final de la actividad”, held in Merida (Spain), presentation entitled "From site survey to site management plan: the Ammaia case-study".

- 4-5 December 2014, invited speaker at the International conference “Statio Amoena. Sostare e vivere lungo le strade romane tra antichità e alto medioevo, Verona, with a presentation entitled “Street villages and road stations in Italy between Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages”.

- 8 January 2015, lecture with F. Vermeulen at Macquarie University of Sydney: “Archaeological survey and the Roman town. new contributions to ancient urbanism”.

- 12-16 February 2015, invited speaker at the Symposium held in the framework of the American Association for Advancing Sciences (AAAS) Meeting in San José (California): ‘Radiography of the Past: Bringing Ammaia to Life”.

- 20 May 2015: invited speaker at the Treffen des Arbeitskreises “Landschaftsarchäologie am DAI“ held in Rome (20-22 May 2015): Townscapes. Integrated approaches for urban survey.

- 4-7 June 2015, invited speaker at the Internationl Conference ‘Felix terra. Capua e la Terra di Lavoro in età longobarda’, held in Capua and Caserta: Insediamento e circolazione nel Lazio meridionale fra tarda antichità ed altomedioevo.

- 31 August – 6 September 2015, docent at the Summer School in Aerial Archaeology organised by the University of Salento at the archaeological site of Aquinum (Frosinone, Italy).

- 10 September 2015: invited speaker at the VII Congresso Nazionale della SAMI (Lecce, 9-12 September 2015): Archeologia dei paesaggi e Medioevo. Spunti per un inquadramento teoretico e per una definizione metodologica nel contesto italiano.

- 2-4 November 2015: speaker at the 20th Conference on Cultural Heritage and New technologies “Urban Archaeology and Public Relations”, held in Vienna, organisation Stadsarchäologie Wien: Good practice in management of ‘invisible’ archaeological townscapes.

- 9 June 2016, invited speaker at the workshop “New Developments in Landscape Archaeology: Communication, Visualization and Sustainability”, held at IMéRA, Aix-Marseille Universitè, Marseille: Landscapes of Movement: Intersected perspectives on the study of roads and communication networks in the past.

- 27-28 June 2016, invited speaker at the atelier “Normes et institutions de l’hospitalité dans l’Antiquité méditerranéenne: regards sur l’Antiquité tardive”, held at the École française de Rome: Ospitalità istituzionale ed accoglienza occasionale nella cristianità tra IV e VI secolo: dall’iniziativa individuale all’assistenza come missione.

- 14-15 Octobre 2016: invited speaker at the atelier “Acteurs et actrices de l'hospitalité dans l'Antiquité méditerranéenne”, held in Lyon : Travelling first class? Emperors, dignitaries and intellectuals on the roads of the Roman Empire.

- 3–4 November 2016: invited speaker at the International Conference “Le terme e il mare: II–VIII sec. d.C.” (Roma – Civitavecchia): L'acqua e la strada: stabilimenti termali e stazioni stradali costiere tra età medio-imperiale e tardo-antico.

- 17 November 2016: invited lecturer at Ghent University – Department of Archaeology: Roman Road Stations in Late Antiquity and Beyond.

- 3-4 May 2017: invited speaker at the Conference “Via Appia, Regina viarum”, held in Melfi and Venosa (Italy): L’assistenza ai viaggiatori lungo la Via Appia, tra servizio di stato ed imprenditoria privata.

- 1-2 June 2017: invited speaker at the International Symposium “Capturing the senses. Digital methods for sensory archaeology”, held in Lund (Sweden): From one dimension to six senses: movement, navigation and landscape perception in antiquity and the middle ages.

- 14-16 June 2017: speaker at the Rencontres internationales Instrumentum « Les modes de transport dans l'Antiquité et au Moyen-Âge. Mobiliers d'équipement et d'entretien des véhicules terrestres, fluviaux et maritimes », held in Arles (France) : Stabling the animals, parking the vehicles. Service areas of road-stations in the Roman and Late Antique Mediterranean.

- 3-4 July 2017: invited speaker at the Atelier de Recherche « Les lieux de l'hospitalité dans l'Antiquité méditerranéenne », held at the école francaise de Rome : « Fida hospitia et receptacula commeantibus tuta ». Archaeology of Hospitality at Roman Road Stations.

- 12 September 2017: speaker at the Ruralia XII Conference: Transitions and Transformation in the Medieval and Early Modern Countryside (Kilkenny 11-17 Septembre 2017): Beyond the Borders: Transformations, Acculturation and Adaptation between Latium and Campania during the Lombard Period (6th – 10th c.).

- 23-25 October 2017, presenter with M. Laracca and C. Meyer of the poster “Counting the finds, measuring the properties of soil: Archaeological diagnostics in the suburbium of a Roman town” at Metroarcheo - IMEKO International Conference on Metrology for Archaeology and Cultural Heritage (Lecce, Italy).

- 29-30 November 2017: invited speaker at the Colloque International «Tiens bien la route! Routes, agglomérations et territoires antiques et médiévaux», held at the Maison de l’Archéologie, Université Bordeaux Montaigne, Bordeaux.

- 20 February 2018: lecture at the Pontificio Istituto d’Archeologia Cristiana: Il sistema di mobilità tra tardo-impero età tardoantica: il ruolo della Chiesa nella trasformazione delle modalità del viaggio.

- 9 April 2018: discutant at the Séminaire HospeRAnt 4: Hospitalité, accueil et habitat, held at ENS - Lyon.

- 22-26 May 2018: invited speaker at the 19th AIAC International conference, held in Cologne-Bonn: Nodes. New perspectives on road- and river-stations and communication networks in Roman Italy (with F. Vermeulen).

- 4-9 June 2018: docent at the 4th SUMMER SCHOOL “ARES” Archeologia aeRea e rEmote Sensing di prossimità con Sistemi Aeromobili a Pilotaggio Remoto (droni)”, held at the University of Salento (Lecce, Italy).

- 13-15 June 2018: invited speaker at the International Conference “The archaeology of Roman Portugal in its Western Mediterranean context”, held at Leiden University: Understanding the town-territory relationship in Roman Iberia. A case-study from central Lusitania.

- 1 settembre 2018: Workshop Past – Present – Future of Archaeological Geophysics, held in Berlin: Archaeologists and geophysicists at the Roman colony of Mariana in Corsica: Survey, ground-truthing and archaeological interpretation (with L. Verdonck).

- 5-7 September 2018: Colloque International «Hospitalité et régulation sociale et politique dans l'Antiquité méditerranéenne. Penser le singulier et le collectif » held at the ENS of Lyon, Université Lyon 2 and Université Lyon 3: Strangers on the way: Hospitality, identity and challenges during journeys at the end of Antiquity.

- 12-14 September 2018: invited speaker at the International Workshop “Space, movement and the economy in Roman cities in Italy and beyond”, (Porto Recanati and Treia, Italy): "This mule will ruin me". The economy of mobility in Roman towns.

- 22-24 October: poster presenter at the 4th International Conference on Metrology for Archaeology and Cultural Heritage, held in Cassino: Mapping of archaeological evidences and 3D models for the historical reconstruction of archaeological sites (with M.G. D’Urso and E. Corsi) (best poster award).

- 17 January 2019, invited lecturer for the seminar «Stop & Go. Introduction à l’archéologie de l’hospitalité pour les voyageurs le long des routes de l’Empire romain», held at the ENS de Lyon.

- 24 January 2019, invited lecturer for the seminar «Un «blog de voyage» du IVe siècle après J.-C. Le voyage de Théophane à travers l’Égypte et la Syrie», held at the ENS of Lyon.

- 31 January 2019, invited lecturer for the seminar «Questions topographiques dans l’Itinerarium Egeriae en Terre Sainte. Essai sur les modalités du voyage au IVe siècle après J.-C.», held at the ENS of Lyon.

- 8 Febraury 2019, invited lecturer for the cycle of lectures «Sociétés méditerranéennes antiques en mutation», held at the Maison Internationale des Langues et des Cultures (MILC) - Université Lyon 2 : La christianisation du voyage. Les infrastructures d’assistance aux voyageurs à la fin de l’antiquité entre crise et « résistance.

- 14 February 2019, invited lecturer for the seminar “Conclusion: Strangers on the way. Hospitalité, identité et défis lors des voyages à la fin de l’Antiquité”, held at ENS of Lyon.

- 27 June 2019: invited lecturer for the workshop “De l’expérience internationale du projet HospitAM aux appels d’offres européens d’Excellente Science”, held at the Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée Jean Pouilloux in Lyon.

- 4 December 2019: invited speaker at the Workshop of the joint doctoral program Arts and Archaeology UGent-UVerona “Talking about Arts and Archaeology”, with a lecture entitled “Conceptualising Roman road stations”.

- 28-30 January 2020: session chair at the International Conference ‘Rome and the Colonial City’, BSR-KNIR Rome.

- 12 Octobre 2020: invited lecturer at Foundation Camargo Cassis (France) with a presentation entitled “The route of the Franks. The journey of archbishop Sigeric at the dusk of the first millennium AD”.

- 30 Octobre 2020: invited speakers at the International Association of Friends of MUCEM, Musée des Civilisations d’Europe et de la Méditerranée, Marseille, with a presentation entitled: “Travelscapes. New perspectives into Medieval journeys”.

- 28 September 2021 – invited speaker at the FOST/BRIAS workshop ‘Diet, Health and Nutrition. Perspectives from the Past’ – Vrije Universiteit Brussel, with a presentation entitled “Fine loaves for you, common loaves for the boys”. Differentiation in food provisioning between master and servants during a late antique journey.

- 7 October 2021 – invited lecturer at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel with a lecture entitled “Archaeology, roman economy and mobility. An overview and a few case-studies”

- 9 May 2022 – invited lecturer at the Université Sorbonne – Paris I for a lecture entitled “Les stations routières dans l’Occident romain. Une démarche innovante de la mobilité dans le passé”

- 23 October 2022: lecturer at the V SUMMER SCHOOL “ARES” Archeologia aeRea e rEmote Sensing di prossimità con Sistemi Aeromobili a Pilotaggio Remoto (droni)”, University of Salento. Lecce.

- 13 March 2023: invited speaker at the Journée d’étude « Villas et résidences princières dans l'Antiquité, questions de définition » (Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques (CTHS), Section Histoire et archéologie des civilisations antiques), Campus Condorcet, Aubervilliers (Parigi). «Les espaces et les formes d’accueil dans les villas aristocratiques de l'Italie romaine: réflexion méthodologique sur les sources» (with M.-A. Le Guennec).

- 10 May 2023: University of Padova, invited lecturer “Il sistema di trasporto e comunicazione in età tardoantica”.

- 25-26 May 2023: invited key note lecturer at “Landscape 4. Una sintesi di elementi diacronici”, incontro di studio, Lecce – Museo Castromediano, “Luoghi di strada e nodi di scambio: una nuova visione della connettività in età romana e tardoantica”.

- 4-7 January 2024: speaker at the annual meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, Chicago, “Discoloring towns. The perception of changes and transition in urban texture and monumental apparatus of Late Antique Rome”.

- 5-8 June 2024: invited presenter at the Hellenistic Terrace Sanctuaries in Italy. New Research”, held at the German Archaeological Institute Rome, with a poster entitled “Il piccone di San Benedetto. Sulle tracce del santuario d’altura sull’acropoli di Casinum” (with Eugenio Polito).

- 30 Septembre-1 October 2024 DAAD-Seminar Palermo and Göttingen “Ancient Road Networks and Settlement Systems in the large Mediterranean Area: Emergence, Development and Interdependencies”, Università degli Studi di Palermo, with a presentation entitled “The Route of the Franks: Travelscapes in Post-classical Gaul’

- 18-19 October 2024: 4th ECT Lab Conference “Transdisciplinary perspectives on AI:Alternative Histories, Current Practices and Possible Futures”, Cluj-Napoca, with a presentation entitled “Transdisciplinary perspectives: AI for the study of the built environment in the past” (with C. D’Elia).

  o 2004-2005: Direction of aerial and topographical survey in the territory of the ancient town of Mariana (France), Project Collectif de Recherche “Mariana et la basse vallée du Golo de l’Age du Fer à la fin du Moyen Age”.

  o 2006-2010: Direction of the excavations and material study of Secteur 12, and geophysical prospection in the area of Mariana (France), on behalf of the Direction Régionale des Affaires Culturelles Corse (DRAC).

  o 2008-2009: Direction of the archaeological excavations and topographical survey at the Baths in the archaeological site of Ammaia (Portugal), authorisation by the Instituto de Gestão do Património Arquitectónico e Arqueológico (IGESPAR).

·       2010-2012: Direction of the excavations in the Forum area, material study, geophysical prospections and geo-archaeological survey in and around the archaeological site of Ammaia (Portugal), authorisation by Direção Geral do Património Cultural-DGPC.

• 2009-present: peer-reviewer for international interdisciplinary journals (e.g. Agri Centuriati, Sensor, Archeologia Aerea, Landscape Research, Antiquity, Daidalos, Archeologia Medievale, etc.)

• 2009-present: evaluator for CINECA (projects FIRB, PRIN, PISCOPIA, FARE, etc.) and ANVUR, Italy.

• 2018-present: evaluator for the European Commission (actions MSCA).

since 2016: member of the Scientific Editorial Board of the University of Cassino Academia Press, Italy.

• since 2009: member of the scientific board of the Egyptian Journal of Environmental Change;

• since 2013: member of the scientific committee of the series "Archeologia Città Territorio" published by Davide Ghaleb Editore (Vetralla), scientific coordination University of Tuscia;

• since 2016: member of the Scientific Editorial Board of Centro Editoriale di Ateneo dell’Università di Cassino e del Lazio meridionale (University of Cassino Academia Press).

• since 2016: member of the Advisory Board of the international journal Groma, Italy.

• since 2018: member of the editorial board of “Journal of Social History”, Italy.

• since 2022: member Editorial Board of the international journal Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology.

- 2001-present: Faculty member, University of Cassino, Italy.

- Since 2015: representative of the Department at H2CU- - Honors Center of Italian Universities.

- Since 2016: member of the Committee for Evaluation of Research, University of Cassino, Italy

- Since 2018: coordinator of the Network of laboratories “Specialised technologies for the sciences of antiquity archaeology and art history” of the Center of Excellence DTC Lazio, a technological infrastructure of research and a center of services to the territory for the Cultural Heritage sector.

- Since 2020: responsible for the training activities (tirocini), University of Cassino, Italy.

- Since 2020: Coordinator “Master in European Project Design and Management”, University of Cassino.

- Since 2021: Member of the Department Board, University of Cassino, Italy.

• Project consultant for the Direzione Regionale Musei del Lazio (formely known as Polo Museale del Lazio) for the project: “La città unita, La riscoperta dell’antica Casinum”, funded in the framework of “’Intervento 2: «Ricerca e sviluppo di tecnologie per la valorizzazione del patrimonio culturale» - DTC Lazio Det. N. G02422 del 1 marzo 2018”, coordination: Direzione Regionale Musei (formely known as Polo Museale del Lazio), Ales s.p.a. and Municipality of Cassino.

• Since 2018 contracted as expert for evaluation by the Research Executive Agency (REA) European Commission.

• Since 2019 contracted by Regione Toscana - Società Sviluppo Toscana as expert evaluator.