LUCA VOLPI Via Urbano II, 8 Rome, Italy - Mobile: (+39)3472252831 E-mail address: [email protected]; https://uniroma.academia.edu/LucaVolpi
CURRICULUM VITAE
PERSONAL DATA
Name and Surname: Luca Volpi
Date of birth: May 10th, 1992 Department of Classics
Place of birth: Rome, Italy Sapienza University of Rome
Citizenship: Italian Piazzale Aldo Moro, 5 00195 Rome, Italy
EDUCATION 11/2017 – in progress PhD Student in Near Eastern Archaeology, XXXIII cycle –
Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Antichità - Sapienza Università di Roma.
Thesis: “Analisi della ceramica ‘Ubaid in una prospettiva regionale: tipologia, funzione e
diffusione”
10/2014 – 01/2017 Master of Arts (Archaeology), Sapienza University of Rome
Thesis: “Il cimitero di Ur alla fine del III Millennio a.C.: stratigrafia, ricontestualizzazione e
analisi tipologica dei materiali” (The Cemetery of Ur at the end of the III Millennium B.C.:
stratigraphy, recontextualization and typological analysis of materials)
Supervisors: Prof. Davide Nadali (Near Eastern Archaeology), Dott.ssa Agnese Vacca (Near
Eastern Archaeology)
Final mark: 110/110 summa cum laude.
10/2011 - 7/2014 Bachelor of Arts (Archaeological Sciences), Sapienza University of Rome
Thesis: “L’architettura privata settentrionale nel periodo dell’espansione Uruk”(The northern
private architecture during the Uruk expansion)
Supervisor: Prof. Marcella Frangipane
Final mark: 110/110 summa cum laude.
09/2006 - 07/2011 High School (Liceo Classico), Liceo Ginnasio Statale Eugenio Montale
High school in Humanities.
Final mark: 95/100.
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AWARDS AND GRANTS
11/2017, Doctoral scholarship Doctoral scholarship, XXXIII cycle, Dipartimento di Scienze
dell’Antichità – Sapienza Università di Roma.
11/05/2017, Excellent Graduate Awarded as one of the 400 “excellent graduates” of Sapienza
University of Rome.
“Thesis Abroad” Scholarship Sapienza University scholarship for “Thesis Abroad”, 2016.
“Percorso di eccellenza” Partial refund of the fees due for the MA in Archaeology, for
having achieved outstanding marks and completed a task
additional to the curricular exams (“Percorso di eccellenza”).
Collaboration Grant
A.A. 2015/2016
Collaboration Grant
A.A. 2014/2015
Collaboration Grant
A.A. 2013/2014
Winner of a collaboration grant for the library of the
Department of Oriental Studies at Sapienza University of
Rome.
Winner of a collaboration grant for the library of the
Department of Oriental Studies at Sapienza University of
Rome.
Winner of a collaboration grant for the library of the
Department of Oriental Studies at Sapienza University of
Rome.
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INTERNSHIPS AND WORK EXPERIENCE
November 2017 – present Archaeologist for the archaeological cooperative “Parsifal” –
Via Macedonia 77, 00179 Rome, Italy.
November 2015 - present Guide at the archaeological-didactic museum Roots of the
Present. Assicurazioni Generali – Piazza Venezia 11, 00187
Rome, Italy.
June - August 2016 Sapienza University scholarship for “Thesis Abroad”: two
months at the British Museum of London studying objects and
notes for my research, followed by Dott. Sarah Collins
( curator for the Early Mesopotamia collections).
TALKS, POSTERS AND SEMINARS
30th - 31th January, 2019 Organization of the conference SSDA 2019 - Seminario della
Scuola di Dottorato in Archeologia, VI edition. Sapienza
University of Rome (Italy) with the presentation “La Ceramica
Ubaid in Mesopotamia Meridionale:
Primi Tentativi Per La Ricostruzione di un
Orizzonte Ceramico Regionale”.
16th - 20th July, 2018 Attending to the 64rd
Rencontre Assyriologique
Internationale – The Intellectual Heritage of the Ancient
Near East, Innsbruck University (Austria).
3rd - 7th April, 2018 Attending to the 11th ICAANE (The International Congress
on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East), with the poster
“Filling the Gap in the Late 3rd Millennium BC Southern
Mesopotamia: the Case-Study of Ur”. Ludwig-Maximilians
University (LMU), Munich (Germany).
27th - 29th March, 2018 Attending to the international conference BANEA 2018 - The
British Association for Near Eastern Archaeology, with the
presentation “Research from the Digitalization of Cultural
Heritage: Reworking on Some Graves from the Royal
Cemetery of Ur, Iraq”. Durham University (UK).
24th - 28th July, 2017 Attending to the 63rd
Rencontre Assyriologique
Internationale, Dealing with Antiquity – Past, Present &
Future, with the poster “Dealing with ancient excavations: the
final stage of the “Royal Cemetery” of Ur in Woolley’s
fieldnotes”. Philipps-Universität, Marburg (Germany).
5th - 8th June, 2017 Attending to the Broadening Horizons 5 (Conference of
young researchers working in the Ancient Near East), Udine
(Italia).
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10th - 11th March, 2017 Attending the panel of GAO – Graduate Archaeology
Conference at Oxford with the poster “What is a Trade
Colony? A comparative analysis of the IV Millennium BC site
of Habuba Kabira (Syria)” held at University of Oxford
(England).
30th September, 2016 Attending the panel of International Conference – “The
World in Motion: Language, Culture, and Intercultural
Communication in Asian and African Studies” with the
presentation “AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL VIEW FOR
“MOVEMENT”: The case of Uruk expansion in the middle of
IV millennium BC in Southern Mesopotamia from the
perspective of private architecture" held at the University of
Warsaw (Poland).
25th - 29th April, 2016 Attending to the 10th ICAANE (The International Congress
on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East). Conference,
Wien (Austria).
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FIELD EXPERIENCE
November - December 2017 Fieldwork at the archaeological site of Tell Zurghul (Iraq),
under the direction of Prof. Davide Nadali (Sapienza
University of Rome). and Andrea Polcaro (University of
Perugia).
August - September 2017 Fieldwork at the archaeological site of Arslantepe (Turkey),
under the direction of Prof. Marcella Frangipane (Sapienza
University of Rome).
July - August 2015 Excavations at the archaeological site of Peltuinum, under the
direction of Prof. Luisa Migliorati.
October - December 2016 Fieldwork at the archaeological site of Tell Zurghul (Iraq),
under the direction of Prof. Davide Nadali (Sapienza
University of Rome). and Andrea Polcaro (University of
Perugia).
September 2016 Fieldwork at the archaeological site of Peltuinum (province of
L’Aquila, Italy), under the direction of Prof. Luisa
Migliorati (Sapienza University of Rome).
September - October 2015 Fieldwork at the archaeological site of Arslantepe (Turkey),
under the direction of Prof. Marcella Frangipane (Sapienza
University of Rome).
July - August 2015 Excavations at the archaeological site of Peltuinum, under the
direction of Prof. Luisa Migliorati.
January - February 2015 Fieldwork at the archaeological site of Tell Zurghul (Iraq),
under the direction of Prof. Davide Nadali (Sapienza
University of Rome). and Andrea Polcaro (University of
Perugia).
July-August 2014 Excavations at the archaeological site of Peltuinum, under the
direction of Prof. Luisa Migliorati.
April 2014 - present Involved in a research project concerning the Aurelian Walls
of Rome, conducted by Prof. Alessandra Ten (Sapienza
University of Rome).
September 2013 Excavations at the archaeological site of Coppa Nevigata,
under the direction of Prof. Alberto Cazzella (Sapienza
University of Rome).
July 2013 Excavations at the archaeological site of Peltuinum, under the
direction of Prof. Luisa Migliorati.
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May 2012 Fieldwork at the archaeological site of Santa Restituta
(Tarquinia), directed by Prof. Francesca Romana Stasolla
(Sapienza University of Rome).
FURTHER RESEARCH
February - April 2017 Laboratory of graphical documentation work (about 50 hours)
with MAIN (Missione Archeologica Italiana a Nigin, Tell
Zurghul, Iraq).
25th - 29th April 2016 Partecipation of 10th ICAANE (The International
Congresses on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East) Conference, Wien (Austria).
March - June 2015 Laboratory of graphical documentation work (about 50 hours)
with MAIN (Missione Archeologica Italiana a Nigin, Tell
Zurghul, Iraq).
January - June 2014 Laboratory of pottery drawings (about 100 hours) with MAIS
(Italian Archaeological Mission in Syria, Ebla).
January - March 2014 Graphical documentation work (using the software Adobe
Illustrator) with Italian Iraqi Archaeological Mission in Iraq
(Abu Tbeirah, Nassiriyah), directed by Prof. Franco
d’Agostino (Sapienza University of Rome).
March - July 2012 Laboratory of pottery and materials coming from the
excavation of Veio – Piazza d’ Armi under the direction of
Prof. Gilda Bartoloni (Sapienza University of Rome).
ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES
September 2009 – 2017 Basketball coach for Asd. Romana basketball society
LANGUAGE SKILLS
Italian. Native speaker.
English. Fluent in both written and oral English.
German. Basic knowledge (Österreich Institut – currently attended B1.1 level).
French. Reading skills.
Latin and Greek. Good reading knowledge, derived from the study of those languages in high
school and at university.
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COMPUTER SKILLS
· Basic knowledge of several software packages (Office suite, AutoCAD 2D, Adobe Photoshop,
Adobe Illustrator, QGIS, Photoscan).
· Confident in the use of a Leica total station.
Luca Volpi
https://uniroma.academia.edu/LucaVolpi