I am a researcher in palaeoanthropology, specialised in the study of the cranial anatomy of fossil hominins. My research is currently focusing on the early Neanderthals and pre-modern human populations from the Middle Pleistocene of Europe. 

I got my PhD achieved at Sapienza University of Rome (Italy) in 2020, with a doctoral thesis on the Neanderthal skeleton from Altamura (Southern Italy). Afterwards, I have been working as a Postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Environmental Biology of Sapienza University and subsequently at the DFG Center for Advanced Studies "Words, Bones, Genes, Tools" of the University of Tübingen (Germany).

I obtained a Post-Doctoral Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellow at the Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution (IPHES-CERCA) of Tarragona (Spain), with the project "N-SPIRE - The Neanderthal nose: reconstruction of shape, function and adaptations" focusing on the upper respiratory tract of Neanderthals, which I have been carrying out in the last 2 years.

I am also interested in the digital reconstruction of human fossils and the design of virtual methodologies for bioanthropological analysis. I have paired my laboratory activities with fieldwork on major fossil sites in Europe and Africa.