Lorenzo Cardarelli

Education

Research Fellow, Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Antichità, Sapienza University of Rome. Associate researcher, CNR - Istituto di Studi Sul Mediterraneo.
2023 PhD candidate. University of Bari Aldo Moro, PhD course in Patrimoni archeologici, storici architettonici e paesaggistici mediterranei. Associate researcher, CNR - Istituto di Scienze del Patrimonio Culturale, Area di Ricerca Roma 1.
2020 Master's Degree in Archeologia Sapienza University of Rome.
2017 Bachelor Degree in Scienze Archeologiche. Sapienza University of Rome.

07/2025 -- current | Associate researcher, CNR - Istituto di Studi sul Mediterraneo, Rome, Italy.
Associate researcher in the project Mediterranean Digital Humanities Lab: Topic modelling, LLMs for humanities.
02/2024 -- present | Member, Istituto Italiano di Preistoria e Protostoria.
04/2022 -- 09/2023 | Associate researcher, CNR - Istituto di Scienze del Patrimonio Culturale, Area della Ricerca Roma 1, Rome, Italy.
Staff Prehistory and Protohistory Research Group; Staff MAD-Lab | Modelling Archaeological Data. Position held within the PRIN 2020 project "Mobility, Social Integration, and Culture Change in the Mediterranean Bronze Age" with a specific focus on GIS analysis related to territorial movement using statistical programming, including statistical and network analysis.

2025/2026 | Contract Lecturer
Bari-Foggia Inter-University Graduate School of Specialization
03/2025 - 05/2025 | Application of Computer Vision for the management of archaeological legacy data
Computer vision lab for Archaeology students, Sapienza University of Rome. With Prof. Julian Bogdani.
02/2025 - 05/2025 | Archaeology and Artificial Intelligence (AI): potential, opportunities and risks of a new digital era
Introductory seminar on Machine Learning and Archaeology, for Archaeology students, Sapienza University of Rome. With Dr. Luca Alessandri.
03/2024 | Machine learning e computer science in archeologia: tematiche, applicazioni e prospettive
Introductory seminar on Machine Learning and computer science in Archaeology, for PhD students of the XXXVII Cycle in Archaeology, Sapienza University of Rome.
02/2022 | Python vs R - An archaeological challenge
Applied programming languages course to archaeology. XXXVI and XXXVII cycle of the Doctorate in Patrimoni archeologici, storici, architettonici e paesaggistici mediterranei. University of Bari 'Aldo Moro'.
03/2021 | QGIS basic course
Basic QGIS application to archaeology. XXXVI cycle of the Doctorate in Patrimoni archeologici, storici, architettonici e paesaggistici mediterranei. University of Bari 'Aldo Moro'.

03/2022 -- 07/2022: Visiting Researcher at Österreichisches Archäologisches Institut (Vienna, Austria).

Peer-review: Journal of Archaeological Science; PLOS ONE; Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA) - Conference; Journal of Cultural Heritage; STAR: Science & Technology of Archaeological Research; npj Heritage Science; Archaeological Prospection; Nature Scientific Reports.

2026 | European Seal of Excellence, European Commission – A Deep Learning Framework for Typology-Free Comparison and Reconstruction of Archaeological Ceramics.
2025 | Postdoc scholarship, gross 22,000€/year (duration: 24 months).
2023 | Postdoc scholarship, gross 22,000€/year (duration: 12 months).
2020 – 2023 | PhD scholarship, gross 16,000€/year (duration: 42 months).