Currently employed as Research Fellow at the Department of History and Cultures (UNIBO), he holds a PhD in History and Archaeology and he has been trained as a field archaeologist and pottery specialist while collaborating with different archaeological projects in Iraq (QADIS, Nineveh) and Turkey (Karkemish). His research topics include the interaction of ancient communities through the study of their pottery assemblages, the evolution of ceramic technology and production and, in general, the material culture of Western Asia in the 1st millennium BCE.
He also had an active role in the activities and management of the BANUU Project, an ERASMUS+ Capacity Building (2020-2023) focused on defining and fostering internship programs in the field of Humanities in Iraqi universities.
Currently Junior Assistant Professor at the Department of History and Cultures (UNIBO), his main interests encompass Landscape Archaeology with a special focus on water management and hydraulic works in ancient societies. His past and present works covered the man-environment interaction and the documentation and analysis of the archaeological record (field survey and excavation) through Remote Sensing and Geographic Information System (GIS) applications.
He is currently a scientific assistant at the Institut für Vorderasiatische Archäologie at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. He is part of the FARA Regional Survey Project, which takes place between Fara/Šuruppak and Ishān Baḥrīyat/Isin, Iraq. He has also recently joined the long-term KIŠIB project (Digital Corpus of Ancient West Asian Seals and Sealings) as an Assyriologist. His main research interests focus on the socio-economic history of Babylonia in the 2nd millennium BCE. He is also interested in the evolution of ancient landscapes in Mesopotamia.