Associate professor, head of department
Marcello Mannino
Associate professor, head of department
Email: afdelingsleder.arkaeologi@cas.au.dk
Mobile: +4522563000
Phone: +4587162956
Curriculum Vitae
09.1996-04.2000 Ph.D. in Archaeology, University of London (United Kingdom)
Thesis title: Marine Molluscs and Human Palaeoecology: a Case Study of the Intertidal Gastropod Monodonta lineata (da Costa)
10.1993-06.1996 B.Sc. in Archaeology (First Class Honours), UniversityCollegeLondon, University of London (United Kingdom)
10.1988-07.1993 Diploma di Maturità Classica, Liceo Ginnasio “Umberto I”, Palermo (Italy)
Professional qualification
02.2014-02.2018 Habilitation for Associate Professor in Archaeology, awarded by the Ministero dell’Istruzione,
dell’Università e della Ricerca [Ministry of Education, University and Research], Italy.
The list of academics habilitated in 2014 is at the following website:
https://abilitazione.cineca.it/ministero.php/public/esitoAbilitati/settore/10%252FA1/fascia/2
Current position and affiliation
08.2015-present Associate Professor [Lektor] at the Department of Archaeology, School of Culture and Society, Aarhus University, Århus (Denmark)
08.2015-present Associated Scientist at the Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig (Germany)
Employment history
09.2011-07.2015 Research Scientist at the Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig (Germany);
Project title: Multi-isotope investigation of human diet and subsistence in the Late Palaeolithic
09.2010-08.2011 Post-doctoral Researcher at the Department of Human Evolution,
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig (Germany)
09.2008-08.2010 Marie Curie Intra-European Research Fellow, Department of Human Evolution,
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig (Germany).
Project title: Stable Isotope Ecology of Hunter-Gatherers in Italy in the Late Pleistocene and the Early Holocene
05.2008-08.2008 Post-doctoral Researcher at the Department of Human Evolution,
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig (Germany)
04.2005-09.2007 Leverhulme Trust Research Fellow, Institute of Archaeology, University College London (United Kingdom).
Project title: Becoming Insular? Human Responses to Past Global Warming and Rising Sea Levels
10.2002-03.2005 Leverhulme Trust Research Fellow, Institute of Archaeology, University College London (United Kingdom).
Project title: Ecology of Prehistoric Shellfish Exploitation in the Coastal Zone of North-West Sicily
Past honorary and visiting positions
11.2013 Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Excellence Cluster TOPOI of the Freie Universität, Berlin (Germany)
09.2007-08.2015 Honorary Senior Research Associate, Institute of Archaeology, University College London (United Kingdom)
Grants and prizes
2014 Funding for teaching contract (Lehrauftrag) at the Bereich für Ur- und Frühgeschichte, Philosophische Fakultät,
Friedrich-Schiller-Universität in Jena (Germany): € 750 (+ ca. € 400 for travel expenses).
2013 Funding for visiting Senior Fellowship at the Excellence Cluster TOPOI of the Freie Universität, Berlin (Germany): € 2,500
2008-2010 Intra-European Fellowship (Call: FP7-PEOPLE-2007-2-1-IEF), People - Marie Curie Actions – Seventh Framework Programme, European Union: € 166,982.27
2002-2005 Leverhulme Trust, Research Grant no. F/07196/B: £94,125; named post-doctoral research fellow for the research project:
“Ecology of prehistoric shellfish exploitation in the coastal zone of NW Sicily”.
2003-2004 Natural Environment Research Council grants for stable isotope analyses (£16,000) and
AMS radiocarbon dates (£2,700) in support of the Leverhulme Trust-funded project F/07196/B (above)
2005 UCL Graduate School grant of £720 to attend the International Council for Archaeozoology (ICAZ) Archaeomalacology Working Group Meeting
at the Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, Florida (U.S.A.)
2005 UCL Graduate School grant of £320 to attend the 7th International Conference on the Mesolithic in Europe at the Ulster Museum, Belfast (United Kingdom).
2005-2007 Leverhulme Trust, Research Grant no. F/07196/D: £118,912; named post-doctoral research fellow for the research project:
“Becoming insular? Human responses to past global warming and rising sea levels”
2005-2006 Natural Environment Research Council grants for stable isotope analyses (£24,000) and AMS radiocarbon dates (£3450)
in support of the Leverhulme Trust-funded project F/07196/D (above).
1996-2000 Natural Environment Research Council studentship in support of the Ph.D. project entitled: Marine Molluscs and Human Palaeoecology:
a Case Study of the Intertidal Gastropod Monodonta lineata (da Costa).
1997 W. F. Grimes Prize for the best dissertation in environmental archaeology in the academic year 1995-1996 at the Institute of Archaeology,
University College London, United Kingdom. Dissertation title: The Environmental Archaeology of a Mesolithic Shell Midden: Investigations at Culverwell, Isle of Portland (Dorset)
Teaching experience
2015 Co-ordinated and taught with Dr. Kornelius Kupczik (Max Planck Weizmann Center for Integrative Archaeology and Anthropology) a Bachelor course on Morphology and Human Evolution [“Morphologie und Evolution des Menschen” Übung] at the Biologisch-Pharmazeutische Fakultät, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität in Jena (Germany).
2014 Co-ordinated and taught a Master’s course on Archaeological Science [“Archämetrie” Übung] at the Bereich für Ur- und Frühgeschichte, Philosophische Fakultät, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität in Jena (Germany).
2011-2014 Taught Zooarchaeology and Isotope Analyses in Archaeology and Palaeo-Anthropology as part of the courses of “The Leipzig School of Human Origins”, an International Max Planck Research School by the University of Leipzig and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Germany).
2006-2007 Taught a Master’s course (with Prof. Kenneth D. Thomas, UCL) entitled Human Palaeoecology in Coastal Environments (code: G171) at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London (United Kingdom).
2005 Held lectures and practicals on Archaeozoology for high school students of the Istituto Tecnico per il Turismo “Marco Polo” in Palermo within the remit of a school program on archaeology organized by the SYS (Servizi per l’Archeologia, Palermo) archaeological unit in collaboration with the Soprintendenza per i Beni Culturali ed Ambientali di Trapani (Italy).
1996-1999 Delivered practical tuition on Invertebrate and Vertebrate Zooarchaeology, Archaeopedology and Taphonomy in undergraduate laboratory classes at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London (United Kingdom).
laboratory experience and practical skills
Professional services