Pierfrancesco Callieri

Since 2008 full professor of Archaeology of Pre-Islamic Iran (SSD ASIA-01/A) at the Department of Cultural Heritage, Ravenna campus. 2012-14: Scientific Coordinator of Marie Curie Action project. 2009-2012: Dean of Facoltà di Conservazione dei Beni Culturali. 2012-13: member of ASN commission, SC 10/N-3. Since 2015: President of the Societas Iranologica Europaea. 2017: 8th Farabi International Award for Iranian and Islamic studies (Tehran). His researches regard mainly the archaeology and art of Iran and Central Asia during the historic pre-Islamic ages. He started his field activity in 1977 in Swat, Pakistan. Since 2005 he is the Italian director of the Iranian-Italian Joint Archaeological Mission in Fars, with excavations in the sites of Pasargadae and Persepolis West/Tol-e Ajori. Since 2024, it has initiated an archaeological collaboration with the Institute of Archaeology of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia.He has collaborated in archaeometric research on finds from his excavations. He is author or editor of 8 monographs and more than 109 contributions in journlas, books, encyclopaedias.