Università di Roma La Sapienza, Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Antichità, Associate professor, Teaching member of the doctoral Programme in Archaeology, Teaching member of the Scuola di Specializzazione in Beni Archeologici, Member of Istituto Italiano di Preistoria e Protostoria (Firenze, Italy). Director of Missione archeologica italiana a Melka Kunture e Balchit (Etiopia) . Expert for Prehistoric sites at the World Heritage Centre of UNESCO, within the Thematic Programme HEADS "Human Evolution, Adaptations, Dispersals and Social Developments". 

Author of roughly 200 scientific publications. 

Fieldwork (surveys and excavations); major projects: 
Juba Valley, Somalia (various locales of Holocene/late Upper Pleistocene age). 
Grotta Barbara, Italy (Middle Palaeolithic and early Upper Palaeolithic). 
Grotta di Pozzo, Italy (Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic). 
Southern Sardinia (various locales of Lateglacial/Early Holocene age). 
Melka Kunture (Ethiopia), (Middle Pleistocene and Upper Pleistocene archaeology, with a focus on Garba III, Atebella II, Gombore II-2) www.melkakunture.it