Costantino Buzi

Department of Physics and Geology,
University of Perugia

Biography

Costantino is a paleoanthropologist, currently a researcher at the University of Perugia with the project “HOMES – Investigating the hominid evolution and dispersal in East Africa and Southern Europe during the Middle Pleistocene”, funded by Next Generation EU through PNRR (grant number: MSCA20 24_00000 22). He achieved his European Doctorate at Sapienza Univesity of Rome, with a doctoral thesis on the Neanderthal skeleton from Altamura (Southern Italy). With this study and his subsequent activity as a Postdoc Researcher in the same Department, he contributed to the knowledge of this Neanderthal skeleton. After the Postdoc at Sapienza, he was a research fellow at the DFG Center for Advanced Studies “Words, Bones, Genes, Tools” of the University of Tübingen (Germany) and a Post-Doctoral Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellow at IPHES (Tarragona, Spain). He is an experienced researcher in the study of human fossils through virtual methodologies of analysis and digital acquisition, both in the lab and in the field.