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Curriculum Vitae: RAFFAELLA BIANUCCI Date of birth: 24th September 1968. Place of birth: Turin, Italy. Citizenship: Italian Work address: Warwick Medical School, Microbiology and Infection Unit, Gibbet Hill Road, CV4 7AL, Coventry, UK. E-mail: [email protected]; [email protected] Short biographical sketch I am a senior researcher- physical anthropologist and paleopathologist- working at Warwick Medical School, Microbiology and Infection Division, The University of Warwick (UK). My research interest focuses on Medical Humanities with a particular view to the history, modality of trasmission and biological profiles of ancient epidemic diseases. I also have a peculiar interest in paleopathography and icono-diagnostic. Academic Positions 2018- National Habilitation to Associate Professorship in Anthropology (05/B1) (05. 04. 2024) 2017- National Habilitation to Associate Professorship in General and Clinical Pathology, History of Medicine and Paleopathology (MED 06/02)(5-12-2017). 2016-2018 Senior researcher, Warwick Medical School, Microbiology and Infection Division, University of Warwick, UK (Wellcome Trust Awarded Grant “Deep evolutionary history of bacterial pathogens” 202792/Z/16/Z. PI: Prof. Mark Achtman). 2016-2017 Visiting researcher at the University of Turin, Dept. of Public Health and Paediatrics, Legal Medicine Section, Laboratory of Physical Anthropology (Supervisor: prof. Giancarlo Di Vella). 2016 Scholarship at the University of Marseilles, France. Projet PaluNéo, PEPS INEE blanc (PI: Dr. Aurore Schmitt (CNR) 2015 Scholarship at the University of Sassari 2013-2015 Postdoctoral fellow appointed at the Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis (CEES), Department of Biosciences, University of Olso, Norway (ERC Advanced Grant n° 324249 MedPlag. PI: Dr. Barbara Bramanti). 2010-2013 Scholarship at the University of Sassari (Fondazione Banco di Sardegna, 2007-2009 Postdoctoral fellow at the University of Turin. The projects I have carried out over the past five years have been supported by private grants (Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo) 2004- 2007 Doctoral position at the Institute of Anthropology University Florence (Italy). Education Graduate studies in Anthropological Sciences at the Institute of Anthropology, University of Florence, Italy. PhD-degree cum laude on 20th March 2007. Doctoral Thesis on the interaction between the historical, archaeological and biological approaches to the identification of Yersinia pestis infection in putative plague victims dating to the Second Pandemic. “La peste: approcci storici e biologici” ("The Plague: historical and biological approaches”). Degree in Natural Sciences cum laude at the Department of Human and Animal Biology, University of Turin (Italy) on 13th March 2003. Honours Editorial Board Member of the Asian Journal of Paleopathology (17.03.2018) Member of the International Society of Egyptology (2015) Member of Centro Studi Antropologici, Paleopatologici e Storici dei popoli della Sardegna e del Mediterraneo- Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche, Università di Sassari (2014 till the present day). Member of the Italian Society of the History of Medicine (2015 till the present day) External examiner for PhD candidate Tobias Houlton, University of Dundee, United Kingdom (16-12-2014 to 24-04-2015). Member of the Board of New Mexico Health Enhancement and Marathon Clinics Foundation, USA (2012 till the present day). Member of the Paleopathology Association (PPA 2008 till the present day). Associate researcher at the UMR 7268, Laboratoire d’Anthropologie bio-culturelle, Droit, Etique & Santé (Adés), Faculté de Médecine de Marseille, France (2008 till the present day) Editorial duties Reviewer for the following peer reviewed journals: The Lancet Infectious Diseases Scientific Reports PloSONE Journal of Archaeological Science HOMO Anthropologie- International Journal of the Science of Man Journal of the Neurological Sciences Medical Hypotheses Quaternary International International Journal of Paleopathology Journal of Cultural Heritage African Journal of Microbiology Research Anthropologie-International Journal of the Science of Man Academic teaching experience Teaching assistant in History of Medicine and Paleopathology at the University of Florence MED02 (2016- ) Visiting researcher at the University of Nebraska Lincoln Mummy Study Field School (2016- ). External examiner of Tobias Houlton’s PhD. dissertation, University of Dundee, College of Art and Sciences, UK. 24.04.2015. Seminar organised by the University of Warwick Medical School, Coventry, UK, 12.11.2014. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LJJMoRWAn5M Seminar organised by the University of Tuebingen, Department of Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology, Germany, 8.09.2014 Seminar organised by the University of Turin, Department of Animal and Human Biology, Turin, Italy, 11.06.2008 Seminar organised by the University of Turin, Department of Animal and Human Biology, Turin, Italy, 26.11.2007 Seminar organised by the University of Turin, Department of Animal and Human Biology, Turin, Italy, 13.03.2003. Seminar organised by the Univeristy of Turin, Department of Parasitology and Parasitic Diseases, Grugliasco, Italy, 20.10.2005; www.antropozoonosi.it Knowledge of languages Italian English French Publications 1. Bianucci R., Perciaccante A., Charlier P. Appenzeller O. (under review) Did Blaise Pascal have Asperger’s syndrome? 2. Perciaccante A., Coralli A., Charlier P., Appenzeller O., Bianucci R. (in press). The young Frankenstein and The Lancet. The Lancet (IF= 47.831). 3. Loynes R.D., Charlier P., Perciaccante A., Gonzalez M., Begerock A., Bianucci R. (in press) Erosive effects of a posterior mediastinic mass in a 18th to early 19th century Spanish mummy. Forensic Medicine and Pathology (IF=2.027) 4. Shin D.H., Bianucci R., Fujita H., Hong J.A. (in press). Mummifications In Korea And China: Mawangdui, Song, Ming And Joseon Dynasty Mummies. BioMed. Res. Intern. (IF= 2.476) 5. Jones J., Higham TFG, Chivall D., Bianucci R., Kay G.L., Pallen M.J., Oldfield R., Ugliano F., Buckley S.A. (in press). A prehistoric Egyptian mummy: evidence for an ‘embalming recipe’ and the evolution of early formative funerary treatments. Journal of Archaeological Science (IF= 3.061) 6. Bianucci R., Qualls C., Lippi D., Charlier P., Perciaccante A., Appenzeller O. (in press) Charité Hospital and Infectious Diseases. Infection A Journal of Infectious Diseases https://doi.org/10.1007/s15010-018-1176-7 (IF=2.773) 7. Bianucci R., Charlier P., Perciaccante A., Appenzeller O., Lippi D. (in press). Malarial fevers in the fourteenth century Divine Comedy. Internal and Emerging Medicine https://doi.org/10.1007/s11739- 018-1903-1 (IF=2.453) 8. Oh C.S., Hong JH, Park JB, Lee WJ, Bianucci R., Piombino-Mascali D., Shin D.H. (2018) From Excavation Site to Reburial Ground: A Standard Protocol and Related Ethics of Mummy Studies in South Korea. Asian Journal of Paleopathology 2: 1-8. 9. Qualls C., Evans P., Perciaccante A., Bianucci R., Lippi D., Appenzeller O. (2018). The Human Hand and Foot in Evolution and Art: The Effects of Wearing Footwear. J Biom Biostat. 9:2 10. Perciaccante A, Charlier P., Negri C., Coralli A., Appenzeller O., Bianucci R. (2018). Did dilated cardiomiopathy kill Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)? Journal of Cardiac Failure https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cardfail.2018.03.009 (IF= 3.765) 11. Perciaccante A., Charlier P., Coralli A., Appenzeller O., Bianucci R. (2018) Sleep disorders and Literature: hypnagogic hallucination inspired Frankenstein novel. Journal of The Neurological Sciences 390: 108-110 (IF=2.126). 12. Charlier P., Perciaccante A., Deo S. Appenzeller O., Bianucci R. (2018). Hemiplegic migraine and stroke in Mary Shelley. The Lancet Neurology 17:305 (IF=21.823). 13. Bianucci R., Charlier P., Perciaccante A., Appenzeller O. Lippi D. (2018) Earliest evidence of malignant breast cancer in Renaissance paintings. The Lancet Oncology 19: 166-167 (IF= 33.900) 14. Bianucci R., Lippi D., Perciaccante A., Charlier P., Evans P., Appenzeller O. (2018) Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) had the deconditioning syndrome while painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling. Medical Hypotheses 113: 13-14 (IF= 1.066). 15. Qualls C., Ali A.M., Guillen S., Aguero Piwonka C., Costa M., van Hove M.L., Willems D., Bianucci R., Appenzeller O. (2018). Neurotoxins in the Human Brain in the Anthropocene; Tipping Points. Neurology and Neuro Toxicology 2(1): 1-6. 16. Perciaccante A., Charlier P., Negri C., Coralli A., Appenzeller O., Bianucci R. (2018). Lessons from the Past: Some Histories of Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency Before Its Discovery. COPD: Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease 15:1, 1-3 (IF=2.576) 17. Perciaccante A., Negri C., Coralli A., Charlier Ph., Appenzeller O., Bianucci R. (2018), Was Ugo Foscolo (1778-1827) affected by alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency? Medical Hypotheses 111: 1-3 (IF= 1.066). 18. Bianucci R., Perciaccante A., Charlier P., Appenzeller O., Lippi D. (2018) Earliest evidence of malignant breast cancer in Renaissance paintings. The Lancet Oncology 19: 166-167 (IF= 33.900) 19. Charlier P., Saudamini D., Bianucci R., Lippi D. (2018). Cancer cases in two Renaissance families. The Lancet Oncology 18: e707 (IF= 33.900) 20. Yi-Suk K., Kim M.J., Hong J.A., Oh C.S., Bianucci R., Shin D.H. (2017). The Scientific and Ethical Background of the Invasive Studies on the Korean Mummies of the Joseon Dynasty. Asian Journal Paleopathology 1:5-11. 21. Perciaccante A., Abenavoli L., Coralli