Stefano Biagetti (PhD UCL 2012) is an Africanist anthropological archaeologist at the CaSEs (Culture and Socio-Ecological Research Group), UPF Department of Humanities, and an Honorary Fellow at the School of Geography, Archaeology, and Environmental studies at the University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg). His research focuses on the study of the adaptation of human societies to drylands in Africa in the last ten thousands years, using a trans-disciplinary approach that includes innovative and non-destructive techniques. He teaches African Cultural Studies and Archaeology at the BA course of Global Studies (UPF). He is a member of the editorial board of the journal 'Ethnoarchaeology'. He has published in most prominent academic journals of African archaeology and science, and has given more that thirty presentations at international conferences.