Professor of Anthropology - BIO/08 at Sapienza University of Rome; Fellow of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei and of the Accademia dei XL.

Coordinator of the PhD program in Environmental and Evolutionary Biology. 

Research interests in human palaeontology, functional morphology, skeletal biology. 

Field activities in Italy and abroad: Spain, Libya, Ethiopia, Tanzania, etc.

Also known as science communicator.

Professor of  Palaeobiology and Bioarchaeology - BIO/08 at Sapienza University of Rome; Honorary Research Associate at the University of Cambridge .

Since 2020, co-beneficiary of an ERC Advanced Grant for the Project "Making Ancestors: the Policy of Death in Prehistoric Europe".

Research interests in skeletal biology and stable isotopes analysis. 

Field activities in Italy , North Africa and the Near East.