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Dr. Nicolò Pini (PhD in Classical Archaeology at the University of Cologne, (Germany) is an archaeologist, specialized in ancient urbanism, architecture, and social structures in the Roman and Byzantine periods. Over the last years he has ventured into the Early, Middle, and even Late Islamic periods. He currently conducts a postdoctoral research project at the CReA-Patrimoine, Université libre de Bruxelles (Belgium), funded by the Belgian Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique – FNRS (CR - Chargé de recherches). He was previously awarded a COFUND Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship at the same institution. He collaborates on several projects in the Near East, in particular with the Islamic Archaeology Research Unit at the University of Bonn and is also external research associate of the Panorama Platform (based at the Universitè libre de Bruxelles), specialized in acquisition and digitization of objects and architectural surveys.