2023- Research Director, CNR National Research Council – ISPC Institute for Heritage Science, Florence, Italy
2021- Italian National Scientific Habilitation as Full Professor in Classical Archaeology
2014- Italian National Scientific Habilitation as Associate Professor in Classical Archaeology
• AWARDS
2019, May 27: Prize of the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism for Archaeology, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
• TEACHING ACTIVITIES
2018-2024: Fixed-term professor, Archaeology in Sicily and South Italy, Specialisation School in Archaeology, University of Florence, Italy
2021-2025: Fixed-term professor in Archaeology of Roman Provinces, University of Florence, Italy
• PHD COMMITTEE
2020-2025 Member of the PhD Committee “Patrimoni archeologici, storici, architettonici e paesaggistici mediterranei: sistemi integrati di conoscenza, progettazione, tutela e valorizzazione”, University of Bari – Bari Polytechnic University, National Research Council
2021-2024 Member of the PhD Committee “Built Heritage Conservation / Preservation of the Architectural”, Milan Polytechnic University,
• EDITORIAL COMMITTEES
2020-: Co-director of ASIA MINOR - An International Journal of Archaeology in Turkey, edited by Fabrizio Serra Editore (Roma - Pisa); Editor-in-Chief: Marco Galli (Sapienza); Scientific board: Mustafa Adak (Akdeniz Üniversitesi, Antalya), Christof Berns (Universität Hamburg), Marcella Frangipane (Sapienza University), Musa Kadıoglu (Ankara Üniversitesi), Ronald R.R. Smith (University of Oxford).
2020-: Member of the Editorial Board of “Material Appropriation Processes in Antiquity (MAPA)”, directed by Johannes Lipps (Universität Tübingen) and Dominik Maschek (Oxford University), Reichert Verlag, Wiesbaden.
2007- : Editorial Board, “Hierapolis di Frigia” Series, University of the Salento (Lecce, Italy) and Ege Yayinlari (Istanbul, Turkey; volumes I-XV)
A large part my studies concerns public architecture of the Graeco-Roman world, with a focus on Asia Minor during Hellenistic and Imperial ages. Innovative research and multidisciplinary projects are conducted in archaeological contexts of primary importance in Turkey (Teos, Tripolis, Hierapolis), Rome and southern Italy.
Central to my scientific interest is the complexity of ancient architecture, from the design process to human labour, from ancient materials to the symbolic and social dimension of construction. Recent studies focus on construction skills, traditions and technology, the supply of building materials, and architectural knowledge. Pioneering research concerns the ancient restoration practices in Graeco-Roman architecture. Other research activities regard the Roman Forum from the Archaic to Augustan period (Basilica Julia Project), the archaeology of religion and ritual in the ancient world (Asia Minor, Sicily), the Archaic, Classical and Hellenistic architecture of Southern Italy.
Multidisciplinarity and teamwork characterise my activity, thanks to the involvement of scholars from different fields, such as archaeometrists, bio-archaeologists, architects, computer scientists and geophysicists.
The results of the research projects have been presented at more than twenty national and international conferences, in periodicals, proceedings of conferences and articles and monographs.

Born May 14th 1966 in Tunis, Tunisia

Citizenship: French & Tunisian

Full Professor, Archaeology of the Ancient Mediterranean

ORCID : 0000-0001-7860-2018

Research Areas:
- Architecture, Iconography, Epigraphy, and Religion in the Phoenician and Punic World.
- Phoenician and Punic Diaspora.
- History and Archaeology of the Pre-Roman Western Mediterranean.
- History and Archaeology of Pre-Roman and Roman Africa.
- Mobility of goods and Persons in the Mediterranean and beyond.
- Arabian Peninsula between Mediterranean and Indian Ocean: History and Archaeology.