Curriculum vitae Alessandro Rizzo

2023-present: Chargé de recherche at the University of Liège (Belgium), Visiting researcher at the Institut für den Nahen und Mittleren Osten, LMU
2021-2023 Post doctoral researcher at the Ludwig-Maximilians Universität (Munich) thanks to an Alexander von Humboldt Scholarship
2020-2021 Chargé de recherche at the University of Liège (Belgium)
2018-2020 Post-doctoral researcher at the Institució Milà i Fontanals (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas / IMF-CSIC, Barcelona) with a personal project funded by “Wallonie-Bruxelles International” (Belgium)
2017-2018 Junior fellow at the Annemarie Schimmel Kolleg “History and Society during the Mamluk Era”, University of Bonn (Germany)
2016 Visiting Doctoral researcher (October-December): “Maison méditerranéenne des sciences de l’homme” (Aix-Marseille Université, Aix-en-Provence, France)
2015 Visiting Doctoral researcher (October-December): University of Chicago (USA)
2013-2017 PhD in History, Art and Archaeology, Université de Liège (Belgium) – Aix-Marseille Université (France)

2012 Master in Storia e Civiltà (History and Civilization), Università di Pisa (Italy)
2008 Visiting student (November-December 2008): Damascus University (Syria)

2009 Bachelor in Società e Culture d'Europa (European History), Università degli Studi di Torino (Turin, Italy)

Research projects

Member of the research project i‐LINK0977 (The diplomatic exchanges between Islamic Mediterranean powers and Christian European powers in the Middle Ages: new methods for the analysis of documents), funded by the CSIC (Spain), in collaboration with the Université de Liège (Belgium), the Aix-Marseille Université (France) and the University of Barcelona (Spain) (2015-2016)
Personal project The documents at the centre of the diplomacy between the Mamluk sultanate and the Crown of Aragon funded by “Wallonie-Bruxelles International” (2018-2020)
Scientific collaborator in the project Movimiento y movilidad en el Mediterráneo medieval. Personas, términos y conceptos (PGC2018-094502-B-I00), funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (MICINN) (Spain) (2019-2022)
Scientific collaborator of the research group consolidated by the Generalitat de Catalunya CAIMMed (La Corona catalanoaragonesa, l’Islam i el món mediterrani, 2017 SGR 1092)