Curriculum Vitae

Education

September 1996 April 2000	Ph.D. in Archaeology, University of London (United Kingdom) Thesis title: Marine Molluscs and Human Palaeoecology: a Case Study of the Intertidal Gastropod Monodonta lineata (da Costa)
October 1993 June 1999	B.Sc. in Archaeology (First Class Honours), University College London (United Kingdom)
July 1993	Diploma di Maturità Classica, Liceo Ginnasio “Umberto I”, Palermo (Italy)

09.2011-present	Research Scientist at the Department of Human Evolution Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig (Germany) Project title: Multi-isotope investigation of human diet and subsistence in the Late Palaeolithic
09.2010-08.2011	Post-doctoral Researcher at the Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig (Germany)
09.2008-08.2010	Marie Curie Intra-European Research Fellow, Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig (Germany). Project title: Stable Isotope Ecology of Hunter-Gatherers in Italy in the Late Pleistocene and the Early Holocene

09.2007-present

Honorary Senior Research Associate, Institute of Archaeology,
University College London (United Kingdom)

Intra-European Fellowship (Call: FP7-PEOPLE-2007-2-1-1EF), People - Marie Curie Actions - Seventh Framework Programme, European Union: €166,982.27

2011-present	Teaches Zooarchaeology and Isotope Analyses in Archaeology and Palaeo-Anthropology as part of the courses of “The Leipzig School of Human Origins”, an International Max Planck Research School by the University of Leipzig and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Germany).
2006 - 2007	Co-ordinated (with Prof. Kenneth D. Thomas) and taught a Masters’ course entitled Human Palaeoecology in Coastal Environments (code: G171) at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, U.K.
1996 - 1999	Taught topics such as vertebrate taphonomy, invertebrate zooarchaeology and archaeological pedology in Undergraduate practical classes at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, U.K.

January 2002 June 2002	Taught English at a language school (Cambridge Academy) in Palermo (Italy)
October 2000 August 2001	Served compulsory Italian national service in Palermo (Italy)