Beatrice Demarchi

After ten years at the University of York, where she did her PhD and two postdocs in ancient proteins between Archaeology and Chemistry, Beatrice was awarded a position from the Italian Government under the "brain-gain/Rita Levi Montalcini" scheme.

She is now an associate professor in "Research Methods for Archaeology" at the Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology, University of Turin. She has a lab for molecular archaeology and palaeontology, focusing especially on palaeoproteomics. Her research and her teaching include both the natural sciences and the humanities (archaeology, anthropology and cultural heritage).