PROJECTS

2022 e 2023 

• International Collaboration Project for archaeological research funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MAECI). Project title: "C.U.B.A. (Cuba Unknown: Backup x Archaeology)" (Principal Investigator)

• International Collaboration Project for archaeological research funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MAECI). Project title: "Dieta e le strategie alimentari agli albori dellagricoltura nel Levante meridionale" (Principal Investigator)

• International Collaboration Project for archaeological research funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MAECI). Project title: "Organizzazione degli insediamenti presso i Taino nelle aree orientali e settentrionali della Repubblica Dominicana" (Principal Investigator)

2022 

• PRIN Project. Project title: "ROMAN CALCULUS - Ancient Materia Medica, modern therapeutic substances and drugs of abuse through dental calculus" (Principal Investigator)

2021

• Project "Grandi Scavi Sapienza". Project title: "Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Foragers Along the Danube Corridor in the Balkan" (U. Sapienza) (Participant, project led by Dusan Boric) 

2019

• Croatian Science Foundation project. Project title: "Epigravettian communities of Northern Dalmatia (EPIC)"  (Participant, the project is led by Dario Vujević)

• Management Committee Member (MC Member) for the COST action "iNEAL - Integrating Neandertal Legacy: From Past to Present" (Participant, project led by Ivor Janković)

2018

• Research Project (U. Sapienza). Project title: "Modelli occlusali 3D di riferimento per la ricostruzione della biografia dei denti antichi" (Co-Applicant: €8000)

2015 

• Small Award Grant: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research (U. di Cambridge). Project title: “Foragers of northwest Montenegro” (Principal Investigator: £5000)

2014 

• ERC Starting Grant 2014. Project title: “Plant foods in Palaeolithic and Mesolithic societies of SE Europe and Italy” (HIDDEN FOODS) (Principal Investigator): € 1,499,855.50)

2013 

• Research Grant: Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America (Columbia U.). Project title: “Ornaments Body ornaments in the Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic of Italy” (Principal Investigator: US $27,500)

• Small Award Grant: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research (U. of Cambridge). Project title: “Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Foragers of north-west Montenegro” (Principal Investigator: £5000)

2012 

• Small Award Grant: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research (U. of Cambridge). Project title: “Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Foragers of Montenegro” (Principal Investigator: £7350)

2011-2013 

• Marie Curie, IEF Intra-European Fellowship. Project title: “Meso-Neo Technology. Technology of the Last Foragers and First Farmers in the Balkans.” (Principal Investigator: € 210,092)

2010 

• Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Post-Doctoral Fellowship. Project title: “In pursuit of Meso-Neolithic taskscapes in the Danube Gorges: Techno-functional analyses of osseous tools, ornaments and knapped stone implements” (Principal Investigator: $20,000).

2007-2008 

• Research Project (U. of Trento). Project title: “Technological and functional analysis of artefacts between Mesolithic and Early Neolithic at Riparo Gaban (Trento, Italy)”  (Principal Investigator: €19,300)