Roberto is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie European Fellow at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge. After completing an MA in Archaeology at University College London, he undertook a PhD at the University of Bari, which led to the publication of a monograph, 'Peasants, Agriculture, and Environment in the 1st Millennium CE Italian Countryside: A Bayesian Approach'. He subsequently held a research fellowship at the University of Bari and remains one of the coordinators of the Northern Apulia Coastal Survey, a long-term initiative investigating settlement dynamics in the coastal landscapes of northern Apulia, Italy. His current research project, BTChron, develops Bayesian statistical methods for archaeological datasets with complex sources of chronological uncertainty.
Roberto specialises in quantitative approaches to archaeological evidence, particularly the study of agricultural and economic change in the Roman and early medieval Mediterranean. His research explores how probabilistic approaches can address the uncertainties inherent in archaeological evidence, particularly in establishing chronologies and reconstructing long-term patterns of change. More broadly, he is interested in developing quantitative methods for complex archaeological datasets and in making such methods accessible to the wider research community.
