Scientific Committee

Stefano Pagnotta

Stefano Pagnotta, with a PhD in Earth Sciences (GEO/09), an MD in Archaeology specializing in Prehistory and Archaeometry, and a BD in Conservation of Cultural Heritage focusing on Technical and Diagnostics for Cultural Heritage (CuHe), holds the title of "Cultore della Materia" at the University of Pisa in Prehistorical Archaeology. He served as a member of the editorial board for the Anthropology-Open Journal. Currently, he is editorial board member in Current Research in Material Chemistry, Minerals and Academic Editor in Academia Materials Science. Visiting scientist at the Institut für Chemie in Potsdam, at the Pure and Applied Science Department University of Urbino and at the Vinča Nuclear Institute. Since 2013, Dr. Pagnotta has been a recipient of a Research Grant at the Department of Chemistry and Industrial Chemistry, University of Pisa, notably for the CuHe project. Additionally, he held a Research Grant at ICCOM-CNR Pisa from 2018 to 2019 as part of the MACH Italia-Serbia bilateral Project. Previously, he was awarded a scholarship at the Institute of Chemistry of Organometallic Compounds (ICCOM-CNR) Research Area in Pisa from 2014 to 2017, focusing on spectroscopic methods for analyzing inhomogeneous matrix materials. His research interests span applied laser spectroscopy, X-ray fluorescence, multispectral imaging, colorimetry, archaeometry, Prehistorical Anthropology, forensic and anthropological analysis, pottery analysis, Prehistory, and Geoarchaeology. Dr. Pagnotta's academic contributions include over 85 papers published in Scopus-indexed journals, accruing more than 1400 citations and yielding an H-index of 23.