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Gabriele Gattiglia

Icona sede Dipartimento di Civilta' e Forme del Sapere

Location: VIA PAOLI, 15, 56126 PISA

Email: gabriele.gattiglia@unipi.it

Phone: 050 2215228

Website: www.mappalab.eu

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Position: Professore Associato

Unit: Dipartimento di Civilta' e Forme del Sapere

Scientific-disciplinary sector: Metodologie della Ricerca Archeologica ARCH-01/G

Associate Professor in Methodology of Archaeological Research at the University of Pisa (Department of Civilization and Forms of Knowledge. He works at the MAPPA Lab, which manages the MOD (Open Data Map), the Italian repository of Open Archaeological Data. His fields of interest concern AI in archaeology, digital archaeology, archaeological method and theory, and contemporary archaeology.
More info: http://pisa.academia.edu/GabrieleGattiglia
https://arpi.unipi.it/browse?type=author&order=ASC&rpp=30&authority=rp04511#.XOWwV4j6w2x

FUNDED PROJECTS
2024-29: Chair of the COST Action MAIA - Managing Artificial Intelligence in Archaeology CA 23141.
2024-29: PI of the Horizon Europe Project RIA AUTOMATA AUTOMated enriched digitisation of Archaeological liThics and cerAmics GA 101158046
2024-29: Local PI within the ERC Project AviArch- Avifauna in archaeoecological networks, PI Beatrice Demarchi, GA 101125532
2024-26 PI of the ArchMOSS (Mountain Archaeologies for Sustainable Development) Project, funded by the Development and Cohesion Fund – Tuscany Region
2023-25 Member in the local unity of the PRIN (Italian Research Project of National Interest) Project TYPO -Forms, Decorations and Production of Tyrrhenian Area Pottery from the Middle Ages to the Contemporary Age.
2023-35 Member in the local unity of the PRIN (Italian Research Project of National Interest) Project OPUS Open AI solutions for historical masonry annotation.
2023-25: Group coordinator within the PNRR FAIR Future Artificial Intelligence Research funded with Next Generation EU funds
2022-25: PI of the University of Pisa Research Project TOM (Traces Of Movement).
2022-25: Co-PI of the Forsaken ecologies project. Environmental archaeology and local resistance practices in the Apuan-Versilia mountains. Project funded by PNRR – green line
2022-24: PI of the Project ARAM- ARcheologies of Abandonment on the Montagna di Mezzo - Funded by the Development and Cohesion Fund - Tuscany Region
2020-22: Coordinator of the Project MAGOH (Managing Archaeological data for a sustainable GOvernance of the Heritage) – Funded by the call "100 assegni per la Cultura" promoted by the Tuscany Region
2017-19: WP3 Leader in the CERTOSA Project of the University of Pisa, aimed at the archaeological investigation of the Certosa di Calci (PI).
2016-19: Coordinator (PI Letizia Gualandi) of the ArchAIDE project (www.archaide.eu). Three-year RIA project, approved by the EC with call H2020-REFLECTIVE-6-2015, GA n. 693548.
2011-13: Coordinator (PI Letizia Gualandi) "MAPPA Methodologies Applied to the Predictivity of Archaeological Potential" (Tuscany Region FAS 2007-13).

AWARDS
‘HERITAGE IN MOTION AWARDS’ 2019 promoted by the European Museum Academy (EMA), Europa Nostra and Europeana - THE BEST APP CATEGORY - ARCHAIDE
University of Pisa BIHO - BANDO INCENTIVI DI ATENEO HORIZON E OLTRE (Personal Grant 50.000€)

CURRENT POSITION
Associate Professor at the Department of Civilization and Forms of Knowledge of the University of Pisa.

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
President of ArcheoFOSS Association for Open software, hardware, processes, data and formats in archaeological research
Co-Editor of ArcheoLogica Data journal
Member of CAA (Computer Application in Archaeology) Scientific Committee
Member of ArcheoFOSS Scientific Committee
Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Open Archaeological Data
Member of the Editorial Board of exNOVO – Journal of Archaeology
Member of the CAA 2015 National Committee

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE
Member of the Associazione Nazionale Archeologi (National Association of Italian Archaeologists)
Member of S.A.M.I. (Società Archeologi Medievisti Italiani – Society of Italian Medieval Archaeologists)
Member of European Association of Archaeologists

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR (ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH)
Versilia Survey 2020-today
Lampedusa Survey 2021
Monti Pisani and Calafuria survey 2020
Certosa of Calci, Calci, 2018/2020

Teaching

Teaching activity

Teaching responsibility for modules/courses

  • Archeologia digitale (cod. 1037L) per Laurea Magistrale in Archeologia
    Insegnamenti condivisi/mutuati:
    • Archeologia digitale (cod. 1037L) - in
  • Metodologie della ricerca archeologica (cod. 1276L) per Laurea in Scienze dei beni culturali
    Insegnamenti condivisi/mutuati:
    • Metodologie della ricerca archeologica (cod. 1276L) - Laurea in Storia
  • Competenze digitali per i beni culturali (cod. 1403L) per Laurea in Scienze dei beni culturali
  • Archeologia e nuovi media (cod. 1436L) per Laurea Magistrale in Comunicazione, media, tecnologie
  • Teoria e metodi dell'archeologia (cod. 1368L) per Laurea Magistrale in Archeologia
    Insegnamenti condivisi/mutuati:
    • Teoria e metodi dell'archeologia (cod. 1368L) - in

Incarichi di co-docenza in moduli/insegnamenti

  • Intelligenza Artificiale in Archeologia (Cod. 1527L) per Laurea Magistrale in Archeologia
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Lesson timetable

Student consultation hours

Mode of office hours: Il ricevimento avverrà sia in presenza, sia per via telematica con modalità da concordare via mail.

Location: Studio S03.06 Via dei Mille 19 3° piano Pisa

Time: Martedì 10.15 - 11.45

Research

Research interests

My research interests lie at the intersection of digital archaeology, archaeological method and theory, and the archaeology of the contemporary world. My academic work is driven by a commitment to innovation, a critical engagement with digital technologies, and a constant methodological reflection on the role of archaeology in today’s society.
Since the beginning of my career, I have worked on integrating archaeological data with digital tools and analytical models. I have led and contributed to several major international projects (such as MAPPA, ArchAIDE, MAGOH, AUTOMATA) focused on the management, analysis and dissemination of archaeological data through open data strategies, artificial intelligence, predictive modelling, and GIS. I see the datafication of archaeology not as a technical end in itself, but as a means to create open and reflective tools that support critical interpretations.
A significant part of my research is devoted to the archaeology of abandonment and contemporary landscapes. Projects carried out in the Apuan Alps and on the island of Lampedusa reflect my focus on marginality, local resistance practices, and the ways in which abandoned places act as living archives of memory and political readings of space. In these contexts, archaeology engages with forsaken mountains, relict ecologies and the shifting traces of contemporary migration.
In parallel, I explore the epistemological potential of artificial intelligence in archaeology, promoting a critical, situated and transparent use of computational tools. As Chair of the COST Action MAIA – Managing Artificial Intelligence in Archaeology – I coordinate a European interdisciplinary network that investigates the scientific, ethical and operational implications of AI in our field.
Another central strand of my work concerns the public and participatory dimension of archaeology. Through my involvement in the ArcheoFOSS association and my commitment to open data, free software and collaborative practices, I aim to contribute to a more open, equitable and socially engaged archaeology. I believe the future of the discipline lies in embracing a post-digital perspective that connects technology, data politics and social responsibility.
In summary, my research connects computational approaches and ethnographic sensibility, archaeometry and the philosophy of technology, fieldwork and theoretical reflection – in a continuous effort to rethink what it means to do archaeological research today.

Publications

All publications by Gabriele Gattiglia on ARPI, the Research Archive of the University of Pisa
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