MATURO MATTIA

CURRICULUM VITAE


Name: Mattia Maturo
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-2539-5780
Webpages: https://geo-social.academia.edu/MattiaMaturo;
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mattia-Maturo-2


Fixed-Term Researcher Type A
ARCH-01/C - Pre-Roman Italian civilisation and Etruscology
Department of Humanities and Innovation for the Territory, University of Insubria
From: 05/2025- ongoing

Fellowship at the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
Scholarships for Europe Humanities 2024-Archaeology
From: 02/2025-05/2025
Project: The ‘Orientalising’ as a historical process in Etruscan Society. Tarquinia in the first half of the VII Century B.C. The Unpublished Necropolis of Poggio Pian di Spille
Tutor Pr. M. Guggisberg, University of Basel (Switzerland).

EDUCATION

PhD in Law and Humanities. Cum laude
01/10/2018 –31/01/2022 (Dissertation, 04/07/2022)
University of Insubria, Supervisors: Pr. Giulio M. Facchetti; Pr. Federica Chiesa (University of Milan, External)

Postgraduate Diploma in Archaeological Heritage. 108/110
01/01/2016 – 06/03/2018
Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Supervisors: Pr. Annachiara Fariselli; Pr. Federica Chiesa(External University of Milan); Pr. Carla Del Vais (External, University of Cagliari).

Master of Science in Archaeology. Cum laude
01/01/2013 – 12/05/2015
University of Milan, Supervisors Pr. Federica Chiesa; Pr. Maria Bonghi Jovino (Emeritus, University of Milan)

Bachelor in Cultural Heritage. Cum laude
01/09/2008 – 02/05/2012
University of Milan, Supervisor Pr. Federica Chiesa

GRANTS AND PROJECTS
• PI of Preserving And Narrating – Proposals for the Sustainable Enhancement and Promotion of ARChaeological Heritage in North-Western Lombardy, FAR Funding, University of Insubria, 20.000 € euro, From February 2026- ongoing.
• PI of TYRORME Project The TYRrhenian ORientalizing as a MEditerranean historical process. Origins, cultural connections and social changes of Etruscan society, MUR Funding, Young Researchers SoE, 247.950 €. From May 2025- ongoing
• Post-doc Scholarship, Scholarships for Europe Humanities 2024-Archaeology, awarded by Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei 12.000 € euro, 8 months. From 02/2025 – 05/2025 (partially declined)
• PhD Scholarship, 1st ranked in Law and Humanities Course, awarded by University of Insubria. 52.410 € euro, 40 months. From 11/2018 to 01/2022.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE AND ONGOING COLLABORATIONS

• Expert report on the seizure of Etruscan-Italic artefacts for SABAP of the Metropolitan City of Milan. February 2026.
• Study assignment: contract for comparison of findings between Nora and Monte Zara. Typological study of Archaic, Punic and Roman Republican ceramic finds. Scientific direction: Pr. F. Chiesa, University of Milan. October 2024
• Selection and study of Etruscan artefacts from private collections and seizures at the Superintendence for the Metropolitan City of Milan - SABAP MI as part of the preparation of the catalogue for the book “Ri-scoperte. Reperti archeologici da raccolte private milanesi”. From February 2024 - to September 2024
• Study assignment: contract for study of the Sector Beta of Monte Zara Is Obias - typological and contextual study of the materials and stratigraphical reading of the context. Scientific direction: Pr. F. Chiesa, University of Milan. From December 2023 - to January 2024
• Archaeometric study of a group of bucchero vases from the Fornaci necropolis in Capua (Johannowsky excavations). During the PhD (University of Insubria) scientific collaboration with Pr Silvia Bruni, Department of Chemistry, University of Milan. From December 2020 – to January 2021.
• Site manager of the Monte Zara-Is Obias mission (Monastir SU). Contracts for field work management, student coordination and excavation documentation management. Scientific direction: Pr. F. Chiesa, University of Milan. From 2019 - to present.
• Member of the project "Pre-Roman Capua. The study of the necropolis and sanctuaries of the ancient city" concerning studies on the main necropolis and sanctuaries of the Etruscan city. Scientific direction: Pr. M. Bonghi Jovino; Pr. F. Chiesa, University of Milan. From 2015 - to present.
• Member of the project “Archaeological investigations at the Is Obias - Monte Zara site (Monastir, SU)” concerning studies on the Is Obias- Monte Zara multi-layered archaeological site. Scientific direction: Pr. F. Chiesa, University of Milan. From 2015 - to present.
• Teaching assistant (lessons held in Italian) and member of the examination committee for the course of Archaeology of Pre-Roman Italy, Pr. F. Chiesa, Master of Science in Archaeology. University of Milan. From 2018 - to present.
• Teaching assistant (lessons held in Italian) and member of the examination committee for the course of Methodology of Archaeological Research, Pr. F. Chiesa, for Bachelor in Cultural Heritage. University of Milan. From 2018 - to present.
• Excavation area manager of the Monte Zara-Is Obias mission (Monastir, SU). Scientific direction: Pr. F. Chiesa, University of Milan. From 2015 - to 2018.
• Excavation area manager at the Sant'Imbenia mission (Alghero, SS), Pr. M. Rendeli, University of Sassari. From 2013 - to 2015


PUBLICATIONS

Book:

• Maturo M. 2026: L’Orientalizzante a Capua. Contesti e materiali dagli scavi di Werner Johannowsky nella necropoli di Fornaci, Quasar, ISBN: 9788854917477.
• Marazzi E., - Maturo M. 2022: Capua. Tombe orientalizzanti. Necropoli Fornaci, Co-author with E. Marazzi (Capua Preromana XI), Giorgio Bretschneider Editore, 2022. ISBN: 9788876893384.

Papers: (First Author/Corresponding Author)

• Maturo M. 2025: Etruria, in Bacchetta A., Fedeli A.M., Giacobello F. (Eds), Ri-scoperte. Reperti archeologici da raccolte private milanesi, Milano, 2025.
• Maturo M. 2025, Origini e sviluppo dell’iconografia del centauro. Alcuni motivi insoliti nell’Italia preromana, in Castoldi M., Tecchiati U. (Eds), Il Cane Argo e altre storie, gli animali e l'archeologia, Milano, 2025.
• Maturo M., 2025: Gli scavi dell'Università degli Studi di Milano nel complesso fortificato di Monte Zara-Is Obias, (Monastir-SU), Corresponding Author with Chiesa F., Marazzi E., Bormetti M., in X International Congress of Phoenician and Punic Studies, Eivissa-Ibiza, October 17-21, 2022, 2025.
• Maturo M., 2024: Nuovi dati dalla necropoli di Fornaci di Capua. Continuità e innovazione nelle sepolture di epoca orientalizzante, in BABESCH - Annual Papers on Mediterranean Archaeology, 99 (2024), 1-16. Anvur A-Class
• Maturo M. 2023, L’Orientalizzante a Capua. I contatti con il mondo levantino e fenicio d’Occidente: alcuni spunti dalle necropoli, in Byrsa. Scritti sull'antico Oriente mediterraneo 41 (2022), 2023, 107-128. Anvur A-Class
• Maturo M., 2023: Il complesso archeologico di Monte Zara - Is Obias (Monastir, SU). Le campagne di scavo 2015-2019, Corresponding Author with Chiesa F., Marazzi E., Bormetti M., in Byrsa. Scritti sull'antico Oriente mediterraneo 41 (2022), 2023, 27-61. Anvur A-Class
• Maturo M., 2022: Dinamiche di occupazione dello spazio funerario a Capua tra l’età del Ferro e l’Orientalizzante, in Prehistory and Protohistory of Etruria. Proceedings of the 15th Study Conference (Valentano - Manciano, September 11-13, 2020), 2022, 309-313.
• Maturo M., 2022, L’Età del Ferro nella Sardegna centro-meridionale. Le indagini dell’Università degli Studi di Milano nel complesso pluristratificato di Monte Zara-Is Obias (Monastir-SU), Corresponding Author with F. Chiesa, E. Marazzi, M. Bormetti, in Prehistory and Protohistory of Etruria. Proceedings of the 15th Study Conference (Valentano-Manciano, September 11-13, 2020), 2022, 315-319.
• Maturo M, 2021: Capua: necropoli di Fornaci (Santa Maria Capua Vetere): schede nn. 16-18, in Rivista di Epigrafia Etrusca 84 (2021), 2022, 302-305.
• Maturo M, 2020: La necropoli di Fornaci a Capua. Alcuni contesti inediti dell’Orientalizzante Antico e Medio, in Acme. Annali della Facoltà di Studi Umanistici dell'Università degli Studi di Milano 73.1, (2020), 23-42. https://doi.org/10.13130/2282-0035/15233 Anvur A-Class
• Maturo M, 2020: Capua: necropoli di Fornaci (Santa Maria Capua Vetere): schede nn. 21-22, in Rivista di Epigrafia Etrusca 83 (2020), 2021, 250-252.
• Maturo M, 2019: Monte Zara: una testa di spillone dall'area Alpha, in Lanx, Rivista della Scuola di Specializzazione in Archeologia dell’Università degli Studi di Milano 27 (2019), 2020, 323-334. https://doi.org/10.13130/2035-4797/13504.
• Maturo M., 2018: L’Orientalizzante a Capua. Sepolture di rango dal settore Q della necropoli di Fornaci: le tombe infantili e di subadulti, in Prehistory and Protohistory of Etruria, Proceedings of the 13th Study Conference (Pitigliano-Valentano, September 9-11, 2016), 2018, 887-890.
• Maturo M., 2018: Capua in età Orientalizzante. Tombe di Rango dall'Area Occidentale della necropoli di Fornaci, in Herring E., O’Donoghue E. (Eds), The Archaeology of Death. Proceedings of the Seventh Conference of Italian Archaeology held at the National University of Ireland, (Galway, April 16-18, 2016) 2018, 309-315.
• Maturo M., 2016: “Uomini cavallo”: genesi, elaborazione e memoria iconografica della figura del centauro, alcuni esempi, in Acme. Annali della Facoltà di Studi Umanistici dell'Università degli Studi di Milano 67.2, 2014, 7-40. https://doi.org/10.13130/2282-0035/4570.

CONFERENCES

• Contatti interculturali nel distretto tirrenico durante il periodo orientalizzante. Alcuni esempi dalle necropoli di Capua e Tarquinia, Fluid Spaces: Mobility, Networks, and Encounters in Pre-Roman Italy, 24. Treffen der dArV-Arbeitsgemeinschaft Etrusker und Italiker, Wien, 13.–15. February 2026.
• Maschile e femminile nell’Orientalizzante tirrenio.Nuovi dati dalle necropoli di Capua e Tarquinia, DiSUIT Teaching and Research Day, 7 November 2025.
• Gli scavi dell'Università degli Studi di Milano nel complesso fortificato di Monte Zara-Is Obias, (Monastir-SU), with Chiesa F., Marazzi E., Bormetti M., in X International Congress of Phoenician and Punic Studies, Eivissa-Ibiza, October 17-21, 2022.
• L’Età del Ferro nella Sardegna centro-meridionale. Le indagini dell’Università degli Studi di Milano nel complesso pluristratificato di Monte Zara-Is Obias (Monastir-SU), with Chiesa F., Marazzi E., Bormetti M., in Prehistory and Protohistory of Etruria, 15th Study Conference held in Valentano, September 11-13 2020.
• Dinamiche di occupazione dello spazio funerario a Capua tra l’età del Ferro e l’Orientalizzante, in Prehistory and Protohistory of Etruria, 15th Study Conference held in Valentano, September 11-13, 2020.
• Monte Zara: una testa di spillone dall'area Alpha, in Monte Zara: una testa di spillone dall'area Alpha, in Small Finds. Conference held at the University of Milan, Milan, January 30, 2019.
• L’Orientalizzante a Capua. Sepolture di rango dal settore Q della necropoli di Fornaci: le tombe infantili e di subadulti, in Prehistory and Protohistory of Etruria, 13th Study Conference held in Pitigliano, September 9-11, 2016.
• Capua in età Orientalizzante. Tombe di Rango dall'Area Occidentale della necropoli di Fornaci, in The Archaeology of Death. Seventh Conference of Italian Archaeology held at the National University of Ireland, Galway, April 16-18, 2016.