Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
Carla Lancelotti is a Research ICREA Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra. She graduated in Archaeology at the University of Bologna and, after a Master in Archaeological Science at the University of Milan, she obtained a PhD in Archaeobotany from the University of Cambridge.
Carla is an archaeobotanist and quantitative ethnoarchaeologist specialised in long-term human ecology of drylands. She combines methods from plant sciences, ethnography and archaeology with statistical analysis, modelling and simulation to study plant-related activities. Specifically, her work addresses the essential role of the so-called secondary resources (e.g., millets as foodstuff, dung as fuel, etc.) for the adaptation and resilience of past and present socio-ecological systems in drylands. She conducts research in South Asia, Europe, Near East, Africa and South America, covering a chronology that span from Early Neolithic to historic periods. She strongly believes in the importance of upholding Responsible Research and Innovation practices, by fully complying with the principles of ethical research, open access, civil society engagement and by incorporating a gender perspective to my work. She is currently co-vicepresident of the Institutional Committee for Ethical Review of Projects (CIREP) and from 2022, the director of the Centre for Studies on Planetary Wellbeing at Universitat Pompeu Fabra.
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