ILEANA MICARELLI

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS

2026 – ongoing RTT Department of Environmental Biology, Sapienza University of Rome
2026 – ongoing PI FIS3 Project: EVA – Echoes of Violence: Intersecting Violence in the Archaeological Past
2025 – ongoing Professor Physical Anthropology, Università degli Studi di Roma UniTelma, Sapienza
2024-2026 Fixed-term Research Fellow (RTD-a), Department of Environmental Biology, Sapienza University of Rome
2022-2024 – Marie Skłodowska-Curie Standard Fellowship - Horizon Europe 2021, Project: B-CARED Osteobiographical investigation of disability and care in Medieval Europe McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge (UK)
2021-2022 External lecturer for "Anthropology and biomedical statistics", Department of Applied Clinical and Biotechnological Sciences, University of L'Aquila (IT)
2021-2022 Post-doc “Osteobiography of the servants in Roman times”, Department of Environmental Biology, Sapienza University of Rome
2019-2021 – Post-doc “Population biology, diseases and mobility: Romans and Longobards in the post-classical era”, Department of Environmental Biology, Sapienza University of Rome
2016 – Scholarship, Osteological investigation of the skeletal collection of the Neolithic site of Palese (IT) – Department of Classics, Sapienza, University of Rome

PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS AND ROLES

2025 – National Scientific Habilitation (ASN), Associate Professor level, in Paleopathology (Area 06/A2 – General and Clinical Pathology).
2024 – ongoing: Member of the Nomination Committee of the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA)
2024 – Registered as a qualified professional Anthropologist (I Class), Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities, Italy
2021 – Present: Subject Matter Expert Human Bioarchaeology, Department of Environmental Biology, Sapienza University of Rome
2021 – Present: Board member of Istituto Italiano di Antropologia (Italian Institute of Anthropology)
2020 – Registered as a qualified professional Archaeologist in Italy (I Class), Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities, Italy
2020 – Present – Head of the osteological investigation, Tusculum (Rome, IT), Escuela Española de Historia y Arqueología en Roma, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (IT)

CARREER

21/02/2020 – PhD, Archaeology, curriculum post-classical archaeology and antiquities
Department of Classics, Sapienza University of Rome
At the origin of the trades: professional activities and social structures in Early-Medieval communities in Italy – A bioarchaeological model applied to two necropolises of Longobard culture (in Italian)
Graduation vote: Excellent 28/01/2016 – MA Hons, Archaeology
Department of Classics and Department of Environmental Biology, Sapienza University of Rome (SSD L- ANT/08 and SSD BIO/08)
The Longobard Necropolis of Povegliano Veronese (VR, VI-VIII sec.): first anthropological investigations and archaeological contextualization (in Italian)
Graduation vote: cum laude
29/04/2013 – I level Master, Bioarchaeology, Paleopathology and Forensic Anthropology
Universities of Bologna, Pisa and LABANOF of Milan
Effect of age on death, sex and occupational activity on markers of musculoskeletal stress (MSM) in the medieval skeletal sample of Leopoli-Cencelle (in Italian)
07/07/2011 – BA Hons, Archaeological Sciences
Department of Classics, Sapienza University of Rome (SSD L-ANT/08) The Infant Burials from Area IX of Leopoli-Cencelle (in Italian) Graduation vote: cum laude