Archaeologist

He graduated in Cultural Heritage (BA) and Archaeology (MA) at the University of Catania, with an MA dissertation on Near Eastern Archaeology titled “Typological and Distributional Analysis of Khabur Ware and Band Painted Wares in the Ancient Near East during the Middle Bronze Age: The Case of Girnavaz Höyük, Southeastern Turkey”. He is a Cambridge Trust and King’s College doctoral student in the Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, writing a thesis on the cultural evolution of pottery styles between the southern Caucasus and northern Mesopotamia during the Early and Middle Bronze Ages.
His main interests lie in the history and archaeology of Western Asia, especially in material culture studies and child inhumations, as well as in archaeological theory and methods, particularly Cultural Evolution and geostatistics. He has participated in several excavations as a field archaeologist and field director, database coordinator, and pottery specialist in Türkiye, Iran, Azerbaijan, and Iraq. He co-edited a volume on Resilience and Archaeology (ARC, 2021) and is currently co-editing Infant Intramural Burials in the Mediterranean from Prehistory to Modern Times (SSCIP, forthcoming).