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Marco Madella is ICREA Research Professor at the University Pompeu Fabra - Barcelona. He holds Honorary Professorships at Shiv Nadar University in India and at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. Previously Marco was Director of Studies in Archaeology and Anthropology at St Edmunds College and Affiliated Lecturer at the University of Cambridge. He has also been a Professor in Archaeobotany at the University of Sheffield with the Marie Curie Programme and Visiting Professor at the Research Institute for Nature and Humanities in Kyoto (Japan). He is president of the European Association of South Asian Archaeology and Arts and a previous president of the International Phytolith Society. Over the past twenty-five years he has been awarded grants and fellowships including those from the British Academy, Accademia dei Lincei (Italy), the European Union and the Spanish Ministry of Research as well as private foundations such as the BBVA and PALARQ.

Over the last two decades Marco has conducted or participated in several archaeological projects in South Asia (NoGAP, ModAgrO), Brazil, Argentina, Turkey, Iran, and South Africa. The key interest driving most of  Marco’s research is in the agricultural and socio-economic development of the Indus Valley Civilization of South Asia. However, he is generally interested in the transition to farming in different ecological settings.