I am an anthropological archaeologist specialized in the use of radiocarbon dating in the context of late Eurasian prehistory. I joined NTNU in September 2025 as a Postdoctoral Fellow within the SCAPES Project. I received a BA (2012) and an MA (2015) at the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (Italy) and I completed a PhD in Anthropology (2024) at Cornell University (USA). Before coming to NTNU, I held a research fellowship at the Einstein Center Chronoi (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany). My research combines high-resolution Bayesian chronological modeling of radiocarbon dates with a theoretical interest for how scientific dating, and archaeological science technologies more broadly, inform our understanding of time as both a physical dimension and lived, social experience. Building on this, my research also tackles questions of chronopolitics in Eurasian prehistory, with particular interest in Soviet and post-Soviet archaeology. My doctoral project (funded by an NSF Arch DDRI grant, #BSC-2106251) explored these themes in the context of the Early Bronze Age (ca. 3500-2500 BCE) in the South Caucasus. The results produced high-resolution chronometric datasets that address debates on Bronze Age periodization and interregional connections in Southwest Asia while mobilizing dimensions of generational, seasonal, and eventful time as interpretive frameworks. To achieve this, I conducted field- and archive-based sampling campaigns in the South Caucasus (Armenia, Georgia) and received training in radiocarbon dating at the W.M. Keck AMS Facility at the University of California, Irvine. My fieldwork experience also includes diverse excavations in Europe (France, UK, Bulgaria, Cyprus) and North America (Canada), ranging from Paleolithic to Neolithic, Bronze Age, and Woodland sites.

As a Postdoctoral Fellow within the SCAPES project, I will be exploring the bio-socio-cultural dynamics that characterize the formative period of agriculture (ca. 2500-1000 BCE) in Norway through a multi-proxy approach. Specifically, I will generate and integrate new radiocarbon (¹⁴C) dates and isotopic data (δ¹³C, δ¹⁵N, δ¹⁸O, ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr) to understand the entanglement of subsistence, mobility, and socio-cultural belonging at the agricultural turn. My work will unfold in close collaboration with the National Laboratory for Age Determination (NLD) at NTNU and the Max Planck Institute for Geoanthropology in Jena, Germany. In this role, I am particularly eager to implement life-history approaches through the combination of high-resolution radiocarbon dating and stable isotopes, reaching into lived dimensions of decision-making, placemaking, temporal and generational belonging in Scandinavian prehistory. This research will provide a new data-driven and reflective foundation for understanding socio-cultural changes in the light of the aDNA revolution. The newly established – robust and theoretically informed – baselines will leverage data integration and triangulation to challenge monolithic assumptions about the transition to agriculture in European prehistory.