Ancient DNA & Archaeology

Research Description

I am a postdoctoral researcher interested in generating and using time series genomic data to study changes in ecological, wildlife and human communities through time. My research integrates paleogenomic data with archaeological and ecological approaches to better understand human-environment interactions. At CPG I extract ancient DNA and generate libraries from faunal remains found in late Pleistocene massive bone accumulations in central Europe, and analyze the data in collaboration with other team members. During my Ph.D., I co-led a team that built a 12,000-year-long time series of ancient human genomes from central Italy to study the rise and fragmentation of the Roman Empire. We later expanded this work to other locations in the central Mediterranean (Sardinia and Tunisia) to study mobility and interactions in the region during the Carthaginian and Roman periods.

Brief CV

2024 – present: Postdoctoral Researcher, Centre for Palaeogenetics, Stockholm University

2021 – 2024: Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Chicago

2014 – 2021: Doctoral studies on Mobility in the Roman and Iron Age Mediterranean, Stanford University

2011 – 2014: Earth Sciences Educator and Curriculum Developer, Perot Museum of Nature and Science

2009 – 2010: MPhil on the genetics of plant domestication, Archaeological Sciences, Cambridge University

2008 – 2009: Fossil Mammal collections management internship, American Museum of Natural History

2008: B.A. human responses to long-term climate change in the Sahara, University of Chicago