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Marco Madella is an ICREA Research Professor at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) in the Department of Humanities. He holds concurrent roles as Honorary Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa) and Global Co-Coordinator of the LandCover6k initiative under PAGES. His expertise spans archaeobotany, environmental archaeology, and socio-ecological dynamics in extreme environments.
Madella earned a Botany degree from the University of Milan and a PhD in Archaeology from the University of Cambridge. He served as Research Fellow at Cambridge's McDonald Institute and Visiting Professor at the University of Sheffield and Kyoto's Research Institute for Humanities and Nature. His research focuses on agricultural origins in South Asia, particularly the Indus Civilization and South India Neolithic, alongside global Holocene land use patterns and climate interactions.
Key projects include modeling early urbanism in the Indus Valley and developing FAIR phytolith databases. His articles (2020–2025) address topics like water management in ancient civilizations, drought resilience in dryland farming, and Amazonian anthropogenic soils. He emphasizes transdisciplinary approaches linking archaeology with climate modeling and traditional ecological knowledge.
