Scientific collaborations

Luca Bondioli (PhD 2024, University of Bologna, Italy) is a physical anthropologist and paleoanthropologist, currently an Adjunct Professor of Bioarchaeology and Prehistory at the University of Padua (Italy).

Martina Trocchi (PhD 2025, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) is a biological anthropologist and conservation scientist.

Alfredo Coppa is a biological anthropologist and full Professor of Physical Anthropology at the Department of History, Anthropology, Religions, Arts, Entertainment (SARAS) of the Sapienza University of Rome (Italy).

Carmen Esposito (PhD 2021, Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland) is a bioarchaeologist currently a Post-doc Researcher at the University of Bologna (Italy), interested in human mobility in early Iron Age in Italian peninsula.

Melania Gigante (PhD 2019, University of Bologna, Italy) is a bioarchaeologist, currently a post-doctoral researcher (RTD-A) and holder of the Bioarchaeology course at the Department of Cultural Heritage, University of Padua (Italy).

Federico Lugli (PhD 2018, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy) is an Associate Professor of Geochemistry at Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia. He is specialized in isotope and elemental geochemistry and palaeoproteomics.

Simone A.M. Lemmers (PhD 2017, Durham University, UK) is a biological anthropologist and broadly interested in using hard tissues to answer questions on life history, growth, development, and responses to physiological stress, in both modern and fossilized tissues.

Paola Cerrito (PhD 2022, New York University, USA) is an evolutionary biologist and primatologist interested in the selective pressures and proximate mechanisms that have shaped and allowed for the evolution of human life history.

Stefano Magri (M.A. 2022, University of Bologna, Italy) is a biologist and currently a PhD student in Cultural and Environmental Heritage at the same university.

Owen Alexander Higgins (PhD 2024, University of Bologna, Italy) is an archaeologist and former PostDoc at BIOANTH laboratory (2024).

Robert Anczkiewicz (PhD 1998 ETH Zürich, Switzerland) is an Associate Professor and Head of Geochronology and Isotope Geochemistry Laboratory at Institute of Geological Sciences (Polish Academy of Sciences, Krakow, Poland).

Stefano Benazzi (PhD 2017, University of Bologna, Italy) is full Professor in Physical Anthropology at the Department of Cultural Heritage of University of Bologna, with special interest in Osteoarchaeology, Paleoanthropology, Bioarchaeology and Biomechanics.

Wolfgang Müller (PhD 1998, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland) is Professor of Geology and Palaeoenvironmental Research at Goethe University (Frankfurt, Germany) and FIERCE (Frankfurt Isotope & Element Research Center) co-director.

Davorka Radovčić (PhD 2011, University of Michigan, USA) is the senior curator of the Krapina Neanderthals and the Anthropological Collections at the Croatian Natural History Museum in Zagreb. Her research focuses on Neandertals, Homo naledi and modern humans.

Debbie Guatelli-Steinberg (PhD 1998, University of Oregon, USA) is Professor of Biological Anthropology at The Ohio State University (USA). In her research, she uses teeth to answer questions about life history profiles, growth, and biological relationships in primates and fossil hominins.

Lucia Mancini (PhD 1998, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France) is a material science physicist strongly involved in Earth Science studies and interested in heritage science applications by using non-destructive 3D/4D advanced imaging techniques.

Mario Novak (PhD 2008, University of Zagreb, Croatia) is a Senior Research Associate at the Institute for Anthropological Research in Zagreb with a special interest in bioarchaeology, paleopathology, stable isotope and aDNA analysis.