Summary
Gianmarco Alberti is a Resident Academic Senior Lecturer in Spatial Forensics at the University of Malta with over a decade of experience applying GIS, spatial analysis, 3D modeling and advanced statistical methods to criminology, archaeology and the social sciences. He holds a PhD from the University of Udine and teaches research methods, GIS for archaeologists and data visualisation across undergraduate to doctoral programs. An active researcher and reviewer for 30+ journals, he has published in high-impact outlets, authored a Routledge guide to cross-tabulation, and maintains an h-index of 16 with 560+ citations. Gianmarco is also a prolific R developer and open-source tool author—his packages and ArcGIS toolboxes (126k+ downloads) are widely used by research communities worldwide. He combines rigorous academic scholarship with practical software development, making complex spatial and multivariate methods accessible to practitioners and students alike.
11 years of coding experience
110/110 cum laude and special mention, Classics, 110/110 cum laude and special mention, Classics at Università di Catania
Ph.D., Archaeology, Ph.D., Archaeology at Università degli Studi di Udine
70/70 cum laude, Archaeology, 70/70 cum laude, Archaeology at Università del Salento
English, Italian