Filippo Brandolini, PhD

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow 

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HiLSS Project

McCord Centre for Landscape - School of History, Classics and Archaeology

Newcastle University, Armstrong Building, 

Newcastle upon Tyne - NE1 7RU

Phone: +44 (0)191 208 4455

Social Media Editor: Open Quaternary  and JOAD

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Reviewer Board Member: Land

PAST EXPERIENCE

Post-Doc (2020)

Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Universita' degli Studi di Milano (Milan, Italy)

PhD Internship (2019)

McCord Centre for Landscape, School of History, Classics and Archaeology, Newcastle University (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK)

PhD Internship (2018)

Institut de géographie et durabilité, Faculté des géosciences et de l'environnement, Universite de Lausanne (Sion, CH)

Field Geoarchaeologist (2014 - 2018)

Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Universita' degli Studi di Milano (Milan, Italy)

Web-GIS operator (2013)

Superintendent of cultural heritage of Lombardia (Milan, Italy)

EDUCATION

PhD in Environmental Sciences (2016-2020)

Dipartimento di Scienze e Politiche Ambientali, Universita' degli Studi di Milano (Milan, Italy)

The PhD course in Environmental Sciences provides highly multidisciplinary training for the study of environmental complexity. The course aims at fostering the interdisciplinary integration of Natural Sciences, including physics, biology and Earth sciences. PhD students will be trained in the study of past and present biotic and abiotic processes that shaped our environment, taking into consideration past and extant interactions and functional relationships, while making full use of ecological, evolutionary, geological and geomorphological approaches.

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Postgraduate School in Archaeology (2013 - 2015)

Dipartimento di Beni Culturali e Ambientali, Universita' degli Studi di Milano (Milan, Italy) 

"Scuola di specializzazione in beni archeologici " Curriculum Tardo Antico - Alto Medievale
(Postgraduate Degree in Early Medieval Archaeology)

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M.A. in Archaeology (2010 - 2012)

Dipartimento di Beni Culturali e Ambientali, Universita' degli Studi di Milano (Milan, Italy) 

B.A. in Cultural Heritage Studies  (2006 - 2009)

Dipartimento di Beni Culturali e Ambientali, Universita' degli Studi di Milano (Milan, Italy) 

PUBLICATIONS

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• Brandolini F.  (2021, January 4).  Spatial Humanities: the application of Neyman-Scott Cluster Process in landscape archaeology (Version 1.0.1).  Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4384806

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• Forti L., Perego A., Brandolini F. et al. 2021 - Geomorphology of the northwestern Kurdistan Region of Iraq: landscapes of the Zagros Mountains drained by the Tigris and Great Zab Rivers, Journal of Maps, DOI: 10.1080/17445647.2021.1906339​​

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• Brandolini F, Domingo-Ribas G, Zerboni A et al. A Google Earth Engine-enabled Python approach to improve identification of anthropogenic palaeo-landscape features [version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review]. Open Research Europe 2021, 1:22 (DOI : 10.12688/openreseurope.13135.1) or arXiv pre-print 

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• Brandolini F.,  Domingo-Ribas G.  (2020, December 22) - A Colab-Python script code to identify palaeo-landscape features (Version 1.0.0).  Open Research Europe.  Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4384105

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• Brandolini F. 2020 - Late-Holocene human resilience in a fluvial environment: a geoarchaeological database for the Central Po Plain (N Italy). The Journal of Open Archaeology Data (JOAD), 8(1), p.4. doi: http://doi.org/10.5334/joad.62

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• Brandolini F. Degli Esposti M., Mariani G.S., Lischi S., Cremaschi M., Zerboni A.  - SfM-photogrammetry for fast recording of archaeological features in remote areas. Archeologia e Calcolatori, 31, 2, 2020, pp. 33-45. doi:10.19282/ac.31.2.2020.04

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• Zerboni A., Brandolini F., et . al 2020 - Urban geomorphology of the Khartoum-Omdurman conurbation: a growing megacity at the confluence of the Blue and White Nile rivers.  Journal of Maps. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/17445647.2020.1758810​

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• Brandolini F., Carrer F. 2020 - Terra, silva et paludes. Assessing the role of alluvial geomorphology for Late-Holocene settlement strategies (Po Plain - N Italy) through Point Pattern Analysis. Journal of Environmental Archaeology. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/14614103.2020.1740866

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• Brandolini F., Reynard E., Pelfini M. 2020 - Multi-temporal mapping of the Upper Rhone Valley (Valais, Switzerland): fluvial landscape changes at the end of the Little Ice Age (18th - 19th centuries). Journal of Maps, 16 (2), 212 - 221. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/17445647.2020.1724837

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• Zerboni A., Perego A, Mariani G.S., Brandolini F. , et . al 2020 - Geomorphology of the Jebel Qara and coastal plain of Salalah (Dhofar, southern Sultanate of Oman). Journal of Maps. 16 (2). doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/17445647.2019.1708488

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• Brandolini F. and Patrucco G. 2019 - Structure-From-Motion (SfM) Photogrammetry as a Non-Invasive Methodology for Historical Documents Digitalisation: A Highly Flexible and Low-Cost Approach. Heritage. 2019, 2, 2124-2136. doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/heritage2030128

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• Zerboni A., Degli Esposti M., Wu Y.L., Brandolini F et al. 2019 - Age, Palaeoenvironment, and Preservation of Prehistoric Petroglyphs on a Boulder in the Oasis of Salut (northern Sultanate of Oman)’.” Quaternary International: The Journal of the International Union for Quaternary Research. 2019. Available online: 2 July 2019. doi: https://10.0.3.248/j.quaint.2019.06.040

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• Mariani G.S., Brandolini F., Pelfini M., Zerboni A. 2019 - Mapping Matilda’s castles in the northern Apennines: geological and geomorphological constrains. Journal of maps. 2019, 15 (2). doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/17445647.2019.1625823

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• Brandolini F., Cremaschi M., Pelfini M. 2019 - Estimating the Potential of Archaeo-historical Data in the Definition of Geomorphosites and Geo-educational Itineraries in the Central Po Plain (N Italy), Geoheritage 11, 1371–1396 (2019). doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12371-019-00370-5

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• Cremaschi M., Mercuri A.M., Benatti A., Bosi G., Brandolini F. et al. 2018 - The SUCCESSO-TERRA Project: a Lesson of Sustainability from the Terramare Culture, Middle Bronze Age of the Po Plain (Northern Italy), IANSA, IX, 2/2018. doi: http://dx.doi.org/ 10.24916/iansa.2018.2.8

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• Brandolini F., Cremaschi M. 2018a - The Impact of Late Holocene Flood Management on the Central Po Plain (Northern Italy), Sustainability 2018, 10(11), 3968. doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/su10113968

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• Brandolini F., Cremaschi M. 2018b - Valli-Paludi nel Medioevo: il rapporto tra uomo e acque nella Bassa Pianura Reggiana. Le bonifiche “laiche” per colmata, in Sogliani F., Gargiulo B., Annunziata E., Vitale V. (Ed.), VIII Congresso Nazionale di Archeologia Medievale. (Matera, 12-15 settembre 2018), Vol. 2, Sezione III - Territorio e Paesaggio, Firenze 2018 pp. 72 - 75.

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• Brandolini F., Trombino L., Sibilia E., Cremaschi M. 2018 - Micromorphology and site formation processes in the Castrum Popilii Medieval Motte (N Italy), Journal of Archaeological Sciences: Reports, 20, 2018, pp. 18-32. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2018.04.017

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• Cremaschi M., Mutti A., Baratti G., Borgi F., Brandolini F. et al. 2016 - La terramara Santa Rosa di Poviglio: strutture tra Villaggio Piccolo e Villaggio Grande Nuovi dati dallo scavo 2015", The Journal of Fasti Online, 2016 – 349.

GRANTS & AWARDS

​2020 European Research Council, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, MSCA-IF-2019

​2020 European Geosciences Union,Roland Schlich ECSTS Grant

​2016 Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research (Milan, Italy) - Ph.D Scholarship
2014 Italian Institute for Early Medieval Age Studies in Spoleto (CISAM, Spoleto, Italy) -

Postgraduate fellowship “The courts in early middle ages”.