• Since 7/2019 Scientific Staff, Department Anthropology, Institute of Forensic Medicine, University of Bern.
  • 9/2012 – 6/2019 Senior Lecturer, Department of Anthropology & Anthropological Museum, University of Zürich.
  • 6/2010 – 8/2012 Postdoctoral research fellow, Department of Anthropology & Anthropological Museum, University of Zürich.
  • 5/2010 PhD in Evolutionary and Experimental Biology, University of Bologna. Supervisor: Prof. Maria Giovanna Belcastro.
  • 3/2005 Master of Science in Natural Sciences, University of Bologna. Supervisor: Prof. Maria Giovanna Belcastro.

 

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Research interests

  • Diet, mobility and social differentiation in the European Iron Age
  • Lifestyle and funerary patterns among Iron Age agro pastoralists in Central Asia
  • Social and biological status in preindustrial societies 
  • Multivariate approaches to bioarchaeology and funerary archaeology

 

Research projects

  • CELTUDALPS: "Celts Up & Down the Alps: Origin and mobility patterns on both sides of the Alps during the Late Iron Age (4th-1st c. BC)".Department of Anthropology, Institute of Forensic Medicine, University of Bern. PIs: Dr. Marco Milella und Dr. Albert Zink.
  • 2022 Tod und Bestattungssitten im Römischen Westen, University of Bern: course co-organizer
  • 2013-2019, BIO204 – Bioarchaeology, University of Zurich: course organizer
  • 2012-2019, BIO203 – Palaeoanthropology, University of Zurich: teaching assistant
  • 2012-2019, BIO133 - Anthropologisches Praktikum, University of Zurich: coordinator
  • 2010-2019, BIO202 - Evolutionary Functional Morphology of Primates, University of Zurich: teaching assistant
  • 2010-2019, BIO208  - Morphometric Analysis, University of Zurich: teaching assistant
  • 2007-2009, Bioarchaeology and Forensic Osteology, University of Bologna: teaching assistant
  • 2007-2009, Palaeoanthropology, University of Bologna: teaching assistant
  • 2009, Master in Bioarcheology, Paleopathology and Forensic Anthropology (University of Bologna, University of Milano, University of Pisa: teaching assistant
  • 2009, Biodeterioration and Degradation of Bioarchaeological Materials: adjunct professor