Fabrizio is an archaeologist whose primary interest is the Mediterranean economic background from the Roman period to the Early Middle Ages. In December 2020, Fabrizio got his PhD jointly supervised by the University of Palermo (Italy) and Aix-Marseille Université (France). His dissertation enquired about the economic patterns and trade routes between Sicily and Northern Africa between the 1st and the 7th century CE by analyzing the imports and distribution of African pottery. His track record also includes a resident fellowship at the École française de Rome (2018), another fellowship at DFG RomanIslam - Center for Comparative and Transcultural Studies (2022), and the Simon Keay Award in Mediterranean Archaeology 2023-24 at the British School at Rome. He is involved in international research programs and cooperates with European and non-European research Institutions on different sites (Sicily, Tunisia, Rome). Between 2020 and 2021, he was an adjunct professor at the University of Palermo, where he organized a workshop on Roman pottery for graduate and undergraduate students. Since January 2024, Fabrizio has been a Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow (HE-MSCA-IF – Global fellowship).