Staff profile

I am Assistant Professor in Human Bioarchaeology and Forensic Science.

Throughout my career I have been studying skeletal remains from different time periods (Neolithic, ancient Rome, High Middle Ages, Risorgimento, and our contemporary epoch) and from challenging and taphonomically diverse environments, including glacier, dense forest, and open woodland. I have acted as a Consultant for Archaeological Heritage Offices, in forensic anthropological casework in Italy and in several archaeological conflict scenarios.

I completed my Ph.D. on novel 3D technologies in forensic and biological anthropology at the Laboratory of Forensic Anthropology and Odontology (LabAnOF) of the University of Milan (2014). From 2016 to 2018 I worked on a research project, funded by the Irish Research Council, where I focused on 3D Geometric Morphometrics and DNA analysis of human skeletal remains as a Postdoctoral Fellow in University College of Dublin, Ireland. Since 2018 I have been working in different countries (Canada, Czech Republic, UK) as lecturer in Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology.

• Forensic Anthropology
• Palaeopathology
• Skeletal Trauma Analysis
• Taphonomy

Journal Article

• Piccinini, A., Coco, S., Pearson, W., Cattaneo, C., Gaudio, D., & Galassi, A. (online). World War One Italian and Austrian soldier identification project: DNA results of the first case
• Gaudio, D., Olivieri, L., & Cattaneo, C. (online). Authors' Response. Journal of Forensic Sciences, https://doi.org/10.1111/1556-4029.1318
• Gaudio, D., & Betto, A. (2024). A case study on the endeavour to identify the “unidentifiable” fallen soldiers of WWI on the Italian front. Forensic Sciences Research, 9(3), Article owae037. https://doi.org/10.1093/fsr/owae037
• Quade, L., Sevillano, L., & Gaudio, D. (2024). Battlefield, Barracks, or Hospital? A Bioarchaeological Investigation of a Mass Grave at the Jičín Observatory, Czech Republic. European Journal of Archaeology, 27(1), 85-104. https://doi.org/10.1017/eaa.2023.36
• Franceschetti, L., Mazzucchi, A., Magli, F., Collini, F., Gaudio, D., & Cattaneo, C. (2021). Are cranial peri-mortem fractures identifiable in cremated remains? A study on 38 known cases. Legal Medicine, 49, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.legalmed.2021.101850
• Caccianiga, M., Caccia, G., Mazzarelli, D., Salsarola, D., Poppa, P., Gaudio, D., Cappella, A., Franceschetti, L., Tambuzzi, S., Maggioni, L., & Cattaneo, C. (2021). Common and much less common scenarios in which botany is crucial for forensic pathologist and anthropologists: a series of eight case studies. International Journal of Legal Medicine, 135(3), 1067-1077. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00414-020-02456-0
• Gaudio, D., Cattaneo, C., Galassi, A., & Nicolis, F. (2020). Men at war, recovery and analysis of soldiers’ remains from the WWI and WWII Italian Front. Forensic Science International, 317, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forsciint.2020.110533
• Gaudio, D., De Luca, L., Cirielli, V., Caccianiga, M., Bassi, C., Cappellozza, N., Galassi, A., Nicolis, F., & Cattaneo, C. (2019). Postmortem analysis of WWI human remains from Italian glaciers in rare environmental conditions. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 11(6), https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-018-0691-x
• Narasimhan, V. M., Patterson, N., Moorjani, P., Rohland, N., Bernardos, R., Mallick, S., Lazaridis, I., Nakatsuka, N., Olalde, I., Lipson, M., Kim, A. M., Olivieri, L. M., Coppa, A., Vidale, M., Mallory, J., Moiseyev, V., Kitov, E., Monge, J., Adamski, N., Alex, N., …Reich, D. (2019). The formation of human populations in South and Central Asia. Science, 365(6457), https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aat7487
• Gaudio, D., Fernandes, D. M., Schmidt, R., Cheronet, O., Mazzarelli, D., Mattia, M., O’Keeffe, T., Feeney, R. N., Cattaneo, C., & Pinhasi, R. (2019). Genome-Wide DNA from Degraded Petrous Bones and the Assessment of Sex and Probable Geographic Origins of Forensic Cases. Scientific Reports, 9(1), https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-44638-w
• Zana, M., Magli, F., Mazzucchi, A., Castoldi, E., Gibelli, D., Caccia, G., Cornacchia, F., Gaudio, D. A., Mattia, M., & Cattaneo, C. (2017). Effects of Cremation on Fetal Bones. Journal of Forensic Sciences, 62(5), https://doi.org/10.1111/1556-4029.13414
• Ibáñez, O., Valsecchi, A., Cavalli, F., Huete, M. I., Campomanes-Alvarez, B. R., Campomanes-Alvarez, C., Vicente, R., Navega, D., Ross, A., Wilkinson, C., Jankauskas, R., Imaizumi, K., Hardiman, R., Jayaprakash, P. T., Ruiz, E., Molinero, F., Lestón, P., Veselovskaya, E., Abramov, A., Steyn, M., …Damas, S. (2016). Study on the criteria for assessing skull-face correspondence in craniofacial superimposition. Legal Medicine, 23, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.legalmed.2016.09.009
• Rubinacci, A., Tresoldi, D., Villa, I., Rizzo, G., Gaudio, D., De Angelis, D., Gibelli, D., & Cattaneo, C. (2015). Application of high resolution pQCT analysis for the assessment of a bone lesion: A technical note. Legal Medicine, 17(1), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.legalmed.2014.09.002
• Villa, C., Gaudio, D., Cattaneo, C., Buckberry, J., Wilson, A. S., & Lynnerup, N. (2015). Surface Curvature of Pelvic Joints from Three Laser Scanners: Separating Anatomy from Measurement Error. Journal of Forensic Sciences, 60(2), https://doi.org/10.1111/1556-4029.12696
• Ibáñez, O., Vicente, R., Navega, D., Wilkinson, C., Jayaprakash, P., Huete, M., Briers, T., Hardiman, R., Navarro, F., Ruiz, E., Cavalli, F., Imaizumi, K., Jankauskas, R., Veselovskaya, E., Abramov, A., Lestón, P., Molinero, F., Cardoso, J., Çağdır, A., Humpire, D., …Damas, S. (2015). Study on the performance of different craniofacial superimposition approaches (I). Forensic Science International, 257, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forsciint.2015.05.030
• Amadasi, A., Gibelli, D., Mazzarelli, D., Porta, D., Gaudio, D., Salsarola, D., Brandone, A., Rizzi, A., & Cattaneo, C. (2015). Assets and pitfalls of chemical and microscopic analyses on gunshot residues in skeletonized bodies: a report of five cases. International Journal of Legal Medicine, 129(4), https://doi.org/10.1007/s00414-014-1107-9
• De Angelis, D., Gaudio, D., Guercini, N., Cipriani, F., Gibelli, D., Caputi, S., & Cattaneo, C. (2015). Age estimation from canine volumes. La Radiologia Medica, 120(8), https://doi.org/10.1007/s11547-015-0521-5
• Gaudio, D., Olivieri, L., De Angelis, D., Poppa, P., Galassi, A., & Cattaneo, C. (2015). Reliability of Craniofacial Superimposition Using Three-Dimension Skull Model. Journal of Forensic Sciences, 61(1), https://doi.org/10.1111/1556-4029.12856
• De Angelis, D., Gibelli, D., Gaudio, D., Cipriani Noce, F., Guercini, N., Varvara, G., Sguazza, E., Sforza, C., & Cattaneo, C. (2015). Sexual dimorphism of canine volume: A pilot study. Legal Medicine, 17(3), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.legalmed.2014.12.006
• Cappella, A., Amadasi, A., Castoldi, E., Mazzarelli, D., Gaudio, D., & Cattaneo, C. (2014). The Difficult Task of Assessing Perimortem and Postmortem Fractures on the Skeleton: A Blind Text on 210 Fractures of Known Origin. Journal of Forensic Sciences, 59(6), https://doi.org/10.1111/1556-4029.12539
• Gaudio, D., Di Giancamillo, M., Gibelli, D., Galassi, A., Cerutti, E., & Cattaneo, C. (2014). Does cone beam CT actually ameliorate stab wound analysis in bone?. International Journal of Legal Medicine, 128(1), https://doi.org/10.1007/s00414-013-0820-0
• Gaudio, D., Betto, A., Vanin, S., De Guio, A., Galassi, A., & Cattaneo, C. (2013). Excavation and Study of Skeletal Remains from a World War I Mass Grave. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 25(5), https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.2333
• Cappella, A., Amadasi, A., Gaudio, D., Gibelli, D., Borgonovo, S., Di Giancamillo, M., & Cattaneo, C. (2013). The application of cone-beam CT in the aging of bone calluses: a new perspective?. International Journal of Legal Medicine, 127(6), https://doi.org/10.1007/s00414-013-0824-9