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I am a Lecturer in Geography at Bath Spa University in the UK. My interests span archaeology, cultural ecology and Quaternary palaeoecology, but I'm particularly interested in biological proxies for past environmental change, especially molluscs, but also foraminifera and bryozoans. I blog at http://matthewlaw.wordpress.com, and am on twitter @m_law.

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Suzanne is an Assistant Professor at the University of Georgia, USA, with a joint appointment in the departments of Anthropology and Geography. and Director of the Quaternary Isotope Paleoecology Laboratory at the Center for Applied Isotope Studies. Her research combines archaeology with biogeochemistry to investigate how humans adapted to climate change in prehistory. Other research interests include the initial domestication of livestock, diffusion of domesticates across Eurasia, the transition from hunting to herding, seasonality and human mobility, multispecies archaeology, and advancing methodologies in zooarchaeology and stable isotope analysis. She is an active advocate of open access publishing and online data and research sharing. For more information and publications visit https://uga.academia.edu/SuzannePilaarBirch.

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I am a Ph.D. Candidate in Environmental Sciences at Università degli Studi di Milano (Italy). I started my academic life studying Archaeology, then I approached the Earth Sciences, in particular, soil micromorphology and geomorphology. My researches are focused on fluvial geomorphology. Combining archaeology, historical data and geomorphology I study the mutual interaction between human activities and environmental development. I gained experience in social media management working for different companies, and I got a Digital and Media Marketing certificate at Duke University (NC, USA). For more information and publications visit www.filippobrandolini.com.

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My research uses innovative methods in fieldwork and archaeological science to reconstruct past climate and environments during the last two million years. I am currently a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow at the University of Kiel, Germany, and I am leading excavations at the site of Pniel in South Africa. My research interests are quaternary palaeoenvironments, fieldwork techniques, stable isotope analysis and Palaeolithic archaeology. Homepage: michaelasecker.com

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I am a Lecturer in Geology at the Faculty of Sciences at UNED (Universidad Nacional de Education a Distancia), in Spain. My research interests include tectonic and geomorphic processes that shape the surface of Earth, with the main focus on fluvial geomorphology, and the quantification of rates of landscape change. The main aim is to better understand the processes and rates that govern the topographic evolution of the Earth's surface.

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I've got a special interest in the development of new approaches at the frontier of different disciplines, such as the transposition of moleclar ecology of functionnal ecology to sediment records, or the integration of paleoclimate, plaeoecology and archaeological facts.

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Joaquín Arroyo-Cabrales, Ph. D. is a Senior Scientist at the Archaeozoology Lab, National Institute of Anthropology and History, the Mexican federal agency that takes care of the Historical, Archaeological, and Paleontological Heritages, and currently is in charge of the Paleontological Collection. He holds a Biological Sciences Ph. D. from Texas Tech University and currently is member of the Mexican National Researchers System (SNI for its Spanish initials), has more than 80 indexed publications and has participated in more than 100 national and international conferences. His research focuses on Late Quaternary vertebrates and their contribution for understanding the paleoenvironments in which human survived in the Americas.

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Brazilian, PHD in zoology and specialist in Quaternary American Mammals paleozoology (taxonomy, phylogeny and biogeography). Coordinator of the Mammalogy lab and Chairman of the Zoology Department at the Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro and member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences since 2014.

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Natasha is an Academic Fellow at the University of Leeds, UK. She leads the Leeds Quaternary research group and is a leader of the international PALSEA (PALeo constraints on SEA level rise) working group. Her research focuses on Quaternary environmental change, specifically sea level, coastal change and submerged landscapes. She is particularly interested in the drivers of sea-level change, over a range of timescales. Natasha has extensive field experience in the USA and Europe, and is most happy when immersed in a salt marsh with a coring set! You can follow her on Twitter @DrTashaBarlow and find more at natashabarlow.co.uk

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I received my Ph.D. in 2006 in Evolution at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and have had positions at Harvard University and the college of William & Mary until I landed at the University of Tulsa, Oklahoma where I currently hold the position of associate professor of Anthropology. My research focuses on finding the mechanisms by which climate, environment and ecological changes may have affected hominin biological and cultural evolution, using paleontological and archaeological faunal remains within the framework of zooarchaeological, geological and ecological theory. My current research projects span the Near East, the Caucasus, Central and East Asia.

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Dr Sarah Boulton gained an MSci in Geology from University College London and her PhD from Edinburgh. Her doctoral research combined field sedimentology and structural geology with geochemistry and geomorphology to investigate the development of tectonically active basin in southern Turkey. Following her appointment at the University of Plymouth she has increasingly become interested in the geomorphology of active faulting focussing on fluvial and coastal landforms.

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I am a Senior Lecturer at Birkbeck, University of London. My interests span fluvial and coastal landscape evolution, Quaternary dating techniques and palaeoenvironments. Particular interests involve climate control on landscapes and improving radiocarbon dating of seeds at the limits of the technique. I collaborate particularly with landscape evolution modellers and dating specialists. I am online at http://www.bbk.ac.uk/geography/our-staff/full-time-academic-staff/briant and on twitter @BeckyBriant.

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Dr Thibaut Devièse works at the University of Oxford in the Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art. His work is mainly focused on the development of new methods for the extraction, characterisation and/or purification of organic materials from different archaeological matrix using multi analytical approaches. One of his research priorities is improving the sample preparation for compound specific radiocarbon analyses. Hi is also a member of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

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I graduated from Istanbul University Prehistory Section in 2002 and got masters degree at Uludag University with thesis entitled “Dülük (Gaziantep) Paleolithic finds". I got PhD with the thesis titled “Lower Paleolithic around Marmara Sea: the earliest hominin dispersals”. Since 1999 I have been actively working in excavation and survey projects in many parts of Turkey and also France, Germany and Papua New Guinea. In recent years I have conducted surveys in northwestern Anatolia. In 2012 I became research assistant in Istanbul University and since 2018 I am assistant professor at Ardahan University. Beside archaeology I have worked as a journalist and a social compliance assessor for many years.

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Palaeontologist, curator of fossil invertebrates at the Museum of Natural History of the University of Florence, teaches palaeontology at the Department of earth Sciences of the same university since 2015. Research interests include paleoecology and evolution of Cainozoic molluscs, stratigraphic paleobiology, taphonomy of shells beds and whale falls, and history of geology. Interests include communication of sustainability and ecosystem structure.

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I am an Associate Professor in the Geosciences department at the University of Rhode Island, USA, as well as the Rhode Island State Geologist and Head of the Rhode Island Geological Survey. I am interested in changes in relative sea level changes from minutes to millennia at local to global scales. My primary focus is on sea-level changes due to glacial isostatic adjustment, climate change (past, present, and future), subduction-zone earthquakes, and high-energy wave events including tsunami and storms. My primary methods to investigate these changes are the lithology, plant macrofossil, and micropaleontology information archived within low-energy coastal environments such as salt and freshwater marshes. For more information and publications visit http://urisealevel.weebly.com and at Twitter (@URISeaLevel)

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I am a senior lecturer in the Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences at Northumbria University and my research interests include cave and karst science, stable isotopes in the hydrological cycle, paleoclimatology/palaeoceanography, and peat geochemistry. My current research focuses on using geochemical methods in speleothems, water, and peat deposits to understand past changes in climate, and the interactions between humans and the environment. For more information please visit https://research.northumbria.ac.uk/coldandpalaeo/people/academics/ersek/.

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I am a palaeontologist, specialised in aspects of evolution and biogeography of extinct mammals on islands. I currently work at Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, the Netherlands; my previous pied-à-terre was the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. My research focus is the reconstruction of the evolution, adaptation, biogeography, palaeoenvironment and systematics of fossil insular mammals globally and the role of humans, especially in their extinction. I am currently expanding my research terrain to include extant invasive mammals on islands with emphasis on South East Asia and the Pacific in order to test evolutionary models. I am also an indologist, specialised in the interface between human material culture and native faunas in South Asia, including aspects of domestication and husbandry.

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I am palaeoecological researcher specialising in vegetation change through pollen analysis as well as ecosystem change over time using biological (fungal spores and charcoal), geochemical and physical proxies to understand the change. My background in Environmental Conservation and Natural resource management has provided me with the skills to study tropical ecological and palaeoecological systems. My main research interests are changes in tropical forests and savannahs with a focus on vegetation change and fresh water ecosystems.

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Dr. Harbert is an Assistant Professor of Biology at Stonehill College in Easton, MA. He received his Ph.D. in Plant Biology from Cornell University in 2016 and was a postdoctoral researcher at the American Museum of Natural History in New York from 2016 - 2018. Dr. Harbert works in several areas of spatial ecology, paleoclimatology, paleoecology, and analysis of ancient DNA from fossil packrat (Neotoma spp.) middens from the Late Quaternary of western North America. He is interested in developing computational tools for the analysis of spatial biodiversity data and has published several ongoing projects at https://github.com/rsh249/. Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=uhRJO5kAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rob_Harbert2 Twitter: https://twitter.com/robharbert

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Niklas researches coastal sites and marine climate proxies around the world. He uses a multidisciplinary approach to archaeology, by working with a variety of analytical research methods. Among these are stable isotopes, trace elements and growth incremental analysis. He also focuses on the parallel development of new technological and methodological approaches, to push further our ability to interpret human coastal life and past environments. Most recently, he developed a fast and cheap method for high-resolution elemental analysis of marine shells with the aim to make climatic data more accessible and their study more achievable for researchers in countries with limited funding. Niklas received his PhD at the University of York as part of Geoff Bailey's DISPERSE project. Before this he undertook research at the Mesolithic sites of Duvensee as part of his MA in Mesolithic Archaeology (University of York), as well as his BSc in Archaeology and Geosciences at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany.

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I’m a computational scientist that builds and integrates software to solve and investigate environmental problems; past, present and future. I have a diverse research background that spans High Performance Computing, sedimentology, oceanography and palaeobiology. My particular research interests are reconstructing Quaternary coastal events, such as tsunamis, and processes such as tides. You can find me on Twitter via @jonxhill.

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James' primary research interests encompass palaeo and contemporary glaciology, using each aspect to inform greater understanding of ice sheet and glacier behaviour. After studying Geography at the University of Cambridge he completed his masters in Quaternary Science at Royal Holloway, before moving on to reconstruct the behaviour of a Greenlandic tidewater glacier during the Little Ice Age for his PhD at the University of Aberdeen. This required combining available evidence from geomorphology, sedimentology, archaeology, historical documents, remote sensing and numerical modelling. Following this, James worked on the development of new approaches to palaeo ice sheet modelling at Stockholm University, and is currently Lecturer in Glaciology at the University of Liverpool. James has strong research interests in the reconstruction and observation of fast flowing ice masses, particularly linked to iceberg calving processes and grounding line stability. He utilises geomorphology, sedimentology, geochronology and numerical models combined with observations of contemporary behaviour to provide understanding of potential future ice sheet stability on decadal to millennial timescales. As part of this James is developing novel methods for the rapid analysis of remote sensing imagery, and interdisciplinary approaches to the reconstruction of former ice masses.

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Lorna is a Principal Lecturer in Earth Science at the University of Brighton. Lorna's teaching and research interests are glacial processes, cold climate geomorphology, sedimentology, micromorphology and Quaternary Environments. Lorna's primary research interests are concerned with understanding ice keel scouring (by iceberg and ice-pressure ridge keels) in a variety of grain sizes. This important work is critical to palaeoenvironmental reconstruction (e.g. identifying past glacial limits) and offshore structural engineering (e.g. Arctic marine pipelines). For more information please visit https://www.brighton.ac.uk/staff/dr-lorna-linch.aspx

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I am currently employed as a researcher at the the Laboratory for Science of the Climate and Environment (LSCE) at CNRS, Université Paris Saclay, France. I have previously carried out postdoctoral research at Uppsala University and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. I hold a PhD in Quaternary Geology from Lund University. My research interests are centred around improving understanding of accuracy and precision in Quaternary geochronology. The methods I have deployed to this end have included 14C dating (lately on sub-10 μg C samples), palaeomagnetism, stable isotopes of C and O, as well as Sr isotopes. I actively promote open access publishing and try to encourage standardisation of data in order to promote a more efficient exchange of ideas.

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My professional biography

• 1993 PhD, Department of Geology, University of Palermo, Italy and Department of Geography, University of Heidelberg, Germany
• 1994 Postdoctoral Researcher, Risø National Laboratory, Denmark
• 1995-1997 Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Geography, University of Cologne, Germany
• 1997-1999 Postdoctoral Researcher, MPI for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg, Germany
• 1999-2003 Lecturer Department of Geography, University of Bonn, Germany
• 2003 - 2005 Research Associate, Department of Geography, University of Liverpool, UK
• 2005 – 2017 Lecturer/Senior Lecturer, School of Environmental Sciences, University of Liverpool, UK
• Since 2018 Research Associate School of Geology and Geography, University of Salzburg, Austria and School of Environmental Sciences, University of Liverpool, UK

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Michelle is a Palaeoecologist in Landcare Research in New Zealand. Her research focuses on increasing our understanding of past environmental change through the use of biological indicators sourced from lake sediments and peat archives. Michelle has worked in Ireland, Fiji, and now New Zealand.

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I’m a specialist in the African Middle/Later Stone Age and the European Lower/Middle Palaeolithic. My doctoral research at Università degli studi di Ferrara (Italy) focused on lithic technology of lower Palaeolithic North Eastern Italy (Emilia Romagna) and the question of geofacts in early lithic assemblages. Since 2012, I’m assistant professor at Cheikh Anta Diop University (Senegal). I’m presently leading a research project investigating the role of coastal west Africa in modern human dispersals.

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My research interests are Palynology and palaeoenvironmental reconstruction, and pollen morphology. I apply pollen and spores (pteridophyte and fungal) to reconstruct palaeoenvironments of the Cretaceous to Holocene periods of Nigeria and other areas of tropical Africa. I also employ macro- and micro-botanical remains to understand [palaeo-] ethnobotany of ancient peoples and their human-environment relationships in Africa and the tropics in general.

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My research is focused on understanding how sedimentary systems respond to global and regional-scale controls such as tectonics, climate and sea-level.

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I am a palaeo-glaciologist whose research involves reconstructing glacier dynamics, over the last 25,000 years, in order to contextualise present day changes. I use a combination of field data (landforms, sediments, peat/lake coring), numerical dating (14C, OSL) and modelling. I am currently a Senior Lecturer in Physical Geography at the University of Hertfordshire. Prior to this I completed a PhD in Younger Dryas glacier reconstruction and a Post-Doc on Greenlandic tidewater dynamics over the Medieval Climate Anomaly and Little Ice Age. My work predominantly focuses on glaciation, during periods of abrupt climate change, in the pan-North Atlantic. However, more recently my research has focused on reconstructing Greenlandic tidewater glaciers over the last millennium. I also have a broader interest in; GIS, natural hazards such a glacier-capped volcanoes and Norse adaptation to climate change.

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Maura is an associated research at the Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, University of Oxford, and Honorary Researcher at the Division of Archaeology of the University of Bradford (UK). She is a teacher of chemistry and science at high schools in Italy. Maura's research employs geochemistry and isotope geochemistry tools to address archaeological and palaeontological questions, palaeo-environmental reconstructions, and climate change. Maura gained her undergraduate degree from the Earth Sciences Department of Florence and her PhD from the University of Parma. She has worked for the Universities of Oxford and Bradford, the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, and the Italian National Research Council (CNR).

Besides the enthusiasm for science and research, Maura is passionate for sports and music. She likes to think of herself as "a mother in science".

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Graduated in Biology at the University Paul Sabatier in Toulouse, Florent Rivals received his PhD in Prehistory from the University of Perpignan (France) in 2002. In 2004, he completed a postdoctoral research at the American Museum of Natural History and in 2005, he was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from the Humboldt Foundation at the University of Hamburg (Germany). He was appointed ICREA Junior Researcher (2007 to 2012) at the Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social (IPHES) in Tarragona and since October 2013, he is ICREA Research Professor at the same institution. He also teaches Human Paleoecology in a Master degree at Universitat Rovira i Virgili. He has a primary research interest in evolutionary paleoecology and the ecological context of evolution. The analysis of mammalian fauna from Plio-Pleistocene sites provides the framework for studying the evolution of hominins. The changes in diet over thousands of years are used to reconstruct ancient environments, to track shifts related to climatic changes, and to understand hominin behavioural strategies in different ecological settings. Beyond Europe, his research is also recently focussing on the Near East (Levant) and Africa (Tanzania and Morocco).

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Tom is a Lecturer and Research Fellow at the University of Exeter. Having trained as a palaeoecologist, his primary research interest is the relationship between ecosystems and environmental change over long-term timescales. Currently, his research focuses on peatlands and how they can be used as palaeoenvironmental archives to answer questions about climate change in the past, present and future. In attempting to tackle these questions he has also developed interests in stable isotope geochemistry, geochronology (radiocarbon, short-lived radioisotopes, tephra) and carbon and nutrient dynamics. He has a particular interest in the peat-forming systems and palaeoclimatology of the Southern Hemisphere and is currently working on records from the Antarctic Peninsula, New Zealand and Southern Patagonia.

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Eleanor Scerri is an archaeologist at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History and the University of Oxford. She specialises in lithics, associated quantitative methods of analysis and interdisciplinary research (i.e., climate and genetics) concerned with human evolution in Africa and Southwest Asia. She is also interested in Late Glacial island colonisation and Holocene archaeology in the Arabian Peninsula and runs a number of field programmes addressing all these research themes.

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Understanding the evolution of the Quaternary landscapes largely in the Himalayan region which include the following:
A) Patterns of glaciation and deglaciation and their forcing factors, particularly the role of Indian Summer Monsoon and the mid-latitude Westerlies
B) Geomorphic response of the rivers to the climate and topography
C) The processes responsible for extreme hydrological events (floods)
In addition to this, I am also working on climate-culture relationship with emphasis on the impact of Holocene sea level changes from western continental western margin

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I am a Senior Lecturer in Physical Geography at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. My background is in glacial geomorphology, particularly of the late Quaternary ice sheets. My research focuses on bridging the gap between modern glaciology and Quaternary glacial geomorphology in order to better understand glacier and ice sheet processes at different spatial and temporal scales. I am particularly interested in the influence of meltwater on glacier dynamics during climatic warming during the last deglaciation, and also at glaciers retreating today.

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Coming from an environmental science background, Ingrid subsequently turned her skills and attention to archaeology. Her research focuses on understanding of the sedimentary landscapes and environmental context in which archaeological remains are preserved at both the macro- and micro-scale in both terrestrial and marine contexts. She has authored a number of concept papers arguing for a multidisciplinary, geoarchaeological approach to investigating submerged landscapes in both Europe and later NW Australia. She has also worked on a range of collaborative projects throughout WA, including the Barrow Island Archaeology Project on which she led geoarchaeological and micromorphological research on this continental shelf edge site. She is currently applying her geoarchaeological skills to the Deep History of Sea Country project, the first ARC-funded project on submerged prehistoric landscapes in Australia. For more information and publications visit https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ingrid_Ward

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Chris Widga is Head Curator at the East Tennessee State University Museum of Natural History. He is a vertebrate paleontologist and zooarchaeologist interested in the paleoecology of North American landscapes. Originally from Nebraska, Widga completed a PhD at the University of Kansas with a focus on two things: the Holocene fossil record of Bison, and the brief period of overlap between humans and extinct megafauna in the archaeological record. This was followed by nine years as curator of geology at the Illinois State Museum, where he developed a program of research that concentrated on the paleoecology and extinction dynamics of Quaternary faunas. His active research includes, the evolution and extinction of North American proboscideans, radiocarbon dating and stable isotope ecology, early domesticated dogs, and 3D scanning applications in cultural heritage and paleontology.

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Moriaki Yasuhara is an associate professor in the School of Biological Sciences and the Swire Institute of Marine Science at the University of Hong Kong. He has broad interests in palaeoecology and macroecology, especially those using highly resolved micropalaeontological records. His recent research has focused on the spatiotemporal dynamics of large-scale biodiversity patterns, the climatic and temperature impacts on species diversity, and the controlling factor (s) of biodiversity patterns/change in shallow-marine, deep sea, and pelagic ecosystems and beyond. He is also interested in microfossil- based conservation palaeobiology as well as palaeontology of the Ostracoda in general.

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I am Assistant Professor in Geomorphology at the University of Milano, Italy. My interests are in geomorphology and geoarchaeology of circum-Mediterranean regions and arid lands of Africa and Asia. I am investigating the interrelationship of past climatic and environmental changes and cultural responses of archaeological communities including their adaptation and exploitation of natural resources. My approach starts with a detailed palaeoenvironmental reconstruction on the basis of geomorphological and palaeohydrological indicators (lake sediments, calcareous tufa, fluvial sequences). I am also focusing on the climate-environment-human nexus over the Late Quaternary, investigating its complexity and nonlinearity. I worked in a variety of contexts spanning from the Palaeolithic to modern ethnographic case studies, distributed in Italy, Sahara, Sahel of Sudan, Horn of Africa, Levant, Mesopotamia, and Arabian Peninsula. I am also interested in loess, palaeopedology, and rock weathering. I am investigating the genesis and chronology of loess/paleosols pedosequences in Northern Italy and North Africa. I apply palaeopedological and geochronological tools to palaeoseismological reconstruction at several localities of Northern Italy. I am investigating Quaternary climatic changes occurred in the Saharan and Antarctica studying the formation of rock varnish.

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