Team

Principal Investigator
Richard Hodges studied archaeology and medieval history at Southampton University, where he also gained his PhD in 1977 on the trade and ceramics of the North Sea region. He has taught at the Universities of Sheffield (1976-95), Siena (1984-87; 2008), Copenhagen (1988), and East Anglia (1995- ) where he holds a professorship. He has been Director of the British School at Rome (1988-95), Director of the Prince of Wales’s Institute of Architecture (1996-98), Scientific Director of the Butrint Foundation (1994-2012), and Williams Director of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (2007-12).… Read More

Coordinator
Giovanna Bianchi holds a PhD in Medieval Archaeology from the University of Siena. For the past twenty years she has coordinated, in collaboration with Riccardo Francovich, various archaeological research projects in many castles and monasteries of Southern Tuscany. Between 2007 and 2009, Bianchi conducted research on the medieval architecture of the sites of Butrint, the castle of Gjirokastra and Berat Castle (Albania) under the scientific direction of Richard Hodges… Read More

Luisa Dallai holds a PhD in Medieval Archaeology from the University of Siena, where she studied under the supervision of Riccardo Francovich. She continued her studies in the UK on the application of GIS methodologies to the context of landscape archeology. She is currently head of the Laboratory of Topography of the Mining Territories at the University of Siena.… Read More

Alessandro Donati holds a PhD in chemistry from the University of Perugia and University of Siena, where he studied under the supervision of Claudio Rossi and Enzo Tiezzi. In 96/97 Donati won a scholarship within the NATO – CNR Advanced Fellowship Program to spend a period of research at the Laboratory of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance of Prof. Thomas L. James at the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Radiology – University of California San Francisco… Read More

Pierluigi Pieruccini holds a PhD in Earth Sciences from the University of Siena where he is now Geology Research Fellow. His main research interests focus on geoarchaeology; stratigraphy and sedimentology of quaternary terrestrial and marine successions; geopedology ed ecology; geologic and quaternary; geology survey and mapping; geomorphological mapping and survey; neotectonics and seismic hazard… Read More