{"id":154627,"date":"2025-05-12T14:29:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T14:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unipi.it\/ateneo\/organizzazione\/persone\/antonio-profico-177714-en\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T04:52:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T02:52:20","slug":"antonio-profico-177714-en","status":"publish","type":"unipi_persone","link":"https:\/\/www.unipi.it\/en\/about-us\/organisation\/people\/antonio-profico-177714-en\/","title":{"rendered":"Antonio Profico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professore Associato &#8211; Dipartimento di Biologia | Tel.: 050 2211428 &#8211; Email: antonio.profico@unipi.it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"unipi-persone-chiave":"177714","unipi-persone-nome":"Antonio","unipi-persone-cognome":"Profico","unipi-persone-email":"antonio.profico@unipi.it","unipi-persone-cv":"Antonio Profico is a palaeoanthropologist and morphometrician interested in Human Evolution and Virtual Anthropology. His research concerns the link between skeletal morphology, function and evolution. After receiving a PhD at the Sapienza University of Rome (Italy) (2016) he worked for three years in the same University as a post-doctoral fellow for the study of the Neanderthal skeleton of Altamura (2016-19). His research projects have received funding from the European Union and national programmes and he has been research fellow at the University of York (UK) (2019-21), University of T\u00fcbingen (Germany) (2021-22) and Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution (Tarragona, Spain) (2022). <br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nTo view the full list of publications:<br \/>\r\nhttps:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/profile\/Antonio-Profico<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nWebsite:<br \/>\r\nhttps:\/\/people.unipi.it\/antonio_profico","unipi-persone-link-esterno-cv":"","unipi-persone-modalita-ricevimento":"","unipi-persone-luogo-ricevimento":"","unipi-persone-ore-ricevimento":"","unipi-persone-telefono":"050 2211428","unipi-persone-sitoweb":"https:\/\/people.unipi.it\/antonio_profico","unipi-persone-cariche":"","unipi-persone-link-orario-lezioni":"https:\/\/unipi.prod.up.cineca.it\/calendarioPubblico\/matricola=043670","unipi-persone-link-registro-lezioni":"https:\/\/unimap.unipi.it\/registri\/registri.php?ri=043670&tmplt=principale.tpl","unipi-persone-settore-scientifico":"Antropologia BIOS-03\/B","unipi-persone-ruolo":"Professore Associato","unipi-persone-arpi":"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/cris\/rp\/rp122518","unipi-persone-pubblicazioni":"<ul class=\"pubblicazioni-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1344007\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">3D imaging dataset of the human skeletal collection from Lucus Feroniae [Rome, Italy, 1st-3rd century CE]<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Coletti, Barbara; Formichella, Giulia; Zeppilli, Carlotta; Profico, Antonio; Manzi, Giorgio; Micarelli, Ileana - 2026 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1343987\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The first preserved nasal cavity in the human fossil record: The Neanderthal from Altamura<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Buzi, Costantino; Profico, Antonio; Lorenzo, Carlos; Manzi, Giorgio - 2025 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1343967\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Can Asymmetrical Mechanical Loading Be Accurately Inferred From the Analysis of Skeletal Material?<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Profico, Antonio; Jeffery, Nathan; Karakostis, Fotios Alexandros - 2025 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1333773\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Exploration of the covariation signal between cortical bone and dentine volumes across the upper limb bones and anterior teeth in modern humans and relevance to evolutionary anthropology<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Augoyard, Mathilde; Zanolli, Cl\u00e9ment; Profico, Antonio; Thibeault, Adrien; Cazenave, Marine; Oettl\u00e9, Anna C.; L&#039;Abb\u00e9, Ericka N.; Hoffman, Jakobus; Bayle, Priscilla - 2025 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1333772\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Surgical Correction of Unicoronal Synostosis: Fronto-Orbital Distraction versus Calvarial Switch<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Mellgren, Jonas; Liang, Ce; Buzi, Costantino; Profico, Antonio; Khonsari, Roman H.; S\u00e4lj\u00f6, Karin; Moazen, Mehran; K\u00f6lby, Lars - 2025 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1333771\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Toothnroll: An R Package for Landmarking, Measuring, and Mapping Dental Tissues of Hominoid Anterior Teeth<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Profico, Antonio; Augoyard, Mathilde; Zanolli, Cl\u00e9ment; Bayle, Priscilla - 2025 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1333770\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Unravelling the difference in craniofacial morphology of Yucatan miniature and standard pigs during postnatal ontogeny<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Liang, Ce; Qiu, Tengyang; Marghoub, Arsalan; Chathuranga, Damith S.; Buzi, Costantino; Profico, Antonio; Didziokas, Marius; Baldwin, Michael C.; Pauws, Erwin; Liu, Zi-Jun; Rafferty, Katherine L.; Herring, Susan W.; Moazen, Mehran - 2025 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1333769\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Neanderthal Cranio-Cervical Features: Morphological Integration and Functional Evaluation of Their Early Appearance<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Boggioni, Marco; Papini, Andrea; Coletti, Barbara; Profico, Antonio; Di Vincenzo, Fabio; Manzi, Giorgio - 2025 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1299348\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cortical areas associated to higher cognition drove primate brain evolution<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Melchionna, Marina; Castiglione, Silvia; Girardi, Giorgia; Profico, Antonio; Mondanaro, Alessandro; Sansalone, Gabriele; Chatar, Narimane; P\u00e9rez Ramos, Alejandro; Fern\u00e1ndez-Monescillo, Marcos; Serio, Carmela; Pandolfi, Luca; Dembitzer, Jacob; Di Febbraro, Mirko; Caliendo, Marta Michelle; Di Costanzo, Alessia; Morvillo, Linda; Esposito, Antonella; Raia, Pasquale - 2025 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1333774\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A physico-mechanical model of postnatal craniofacial growth in human<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Liang, Ce; Marghoub, Arsalan; Profico, Antonio; Buzi, Costantino; Didziokas, Marius; Van De Lande, Lara; Khonsari, Roman Hossein; Johnson, David; O&#039;Higgins, Paul; Moazen, Mehran - 2024 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1281598\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">RRmorph\u2014a new R package to map phenotypic evolutionary rates and patterns on 3D meshes<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Melchionna, Marina; Castiglione, Silvia; Girardi, Giorgia; Serio, Carmela; Esposito, Antonella; Mondanaro, Alessandro; Profico, Antonio; Sansalone, Gabriele; Raia, Pasquale - 2024 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1254977\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Virtual paleoanthropology in karstic environments. The challenging case of the Neanderthal skeleton from Altamura [southern Italy]<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Buzi, Costantino; Boggioni, Marco; Borsato, Andrea; Boschian, Giovanni; Marchi, Damiano; Moggi-Cecchi, Jacopo; Profico, Antonio; Riga, Alessandro; Samadelli, Marco; Manzi, Giorgio - 2024 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1250867\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Functional adaptation of the infant craniofacial system to mechanical loadings arising from masticatory forces<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Liang, Ce; Landi, Federica; \u00c7etin, Izel Ezgi; Profico, Antonio; Buzi, Costantino; Dutel, Hugo; Khonsari, Roman Hossein; O&#039;Higgins, Paul; Moazen, Mehran - 2024 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1236487\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Middle Pleistocene human metatarsal from Sedia del Diavolo [Rome, Italy]<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Riga, Alessandro; Profico, Antonio; Mori, Tommaso; Frittitta, Riccardo; Nava, Alessia; Mancini, Lucia; Dreossi, Diego; Radovcic, Davorka; Rice, Hannah; Bondioli, Luca; Marchi, Damiano - 2024 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1221350\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Evaluation of age, sex, and ancestry-related variation in cortical bone and dentine volumes in modern humans, and a preliminary assessment of cortical bone-dentine covariation in later Homo<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Augoyard, Mathilde; Zanolli, Cl\u00e9ment; Santos, Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric; Oettl\u00e9, Anna C; L&#039;Abb\u00e9, Ericka N; Le Luyer, Mona; Cazenave, Marine; Colard, Thomas; Hoffman, Jakobus; Profico, Antonio; Bayle, Priscilla - 2023 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)<\/span><\/li><\/ul>","unipi-persone-didattica":"<ul class=\"registri-list\"><li>Morfometria geometrica (cod. 558EE) per Laurea in Scienze biologiche<br\/><strong>Insegnamenti condivisi\/mutuati:<\/strong><ul class=\"registri-shared\"><li>Morfometria geometrica (cod. 558EE) - Laurea in Scienze naturali ed ambientali<\/li><li>Morfometria geometrica (cod. 558EE) - Laurea in Scienze naturali e ambientali<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Virtual anthropology (cod. 561EE) per Laurea Magistrale in Conservazione ed evoluzione<br\/><strong>Insegnamenti condivisi\/mutuati:<\/strong><ul class=\"registri-shared\"><li>Laboratorio di virtual anthropology (cod. 2325Z) - Laurea Magistrale in Archeologia<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>","unipi-persone-codocenze":"","unipi-persone-interessi-ricerca":"","_wpml_word_count":"14","_last_translation_edit_mode":"translation-editor","_elementor_page_assets":[]},"organizzazioni":[3588],"class_list":["post-154627","unipi_persone","type-unipi_persone","status-publish","hentry","organizzazioni-dipartimento-di-biologia-409999-en"],"email":"antonio.profico@unipi.it","telefono":"050 2211428","content_plain":"Professore Associato &#8211; 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