I am an Assistant Professor in Ancient Topography (non-tenure), with specialisation in Maritime Archaeology, at the Department of History and Cultural Heritage, University of Siena, and I am conducting research on ancient settlements and harbours of the Lagoon of Venice in the Roman period (200 BCE to 300 CE).

My research interests include underwater remote sensing, ancient ports, shipwrecks and the archaeology of lagoon spaces.

Prior to this, I have worked as MSCA SoE research fellow at the Department of History and Cultural Heritage, University of Siena (2022), research fellow at the Leon Recanati Institute for Maritime Studies and the Department of Maritime Civilizations, University of Haifa (2021-2023) and postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Haifa (2020-2022), visiting fellow at the Warburg Institute, University of London (2021-2022), research associate at the Institute of Classical Studies, University of London (2020), research fellow at the University of Galway (2019), project archaeologist at UCL Institute of Archaeology (2018-2019), and project supervisor at the University of Southampton (2018). I taught modules of Roman Art and Archaeology at King’s College London (2014-2017), where I also received my PhD in Roman Archaeology (2017), working on a doctoral project on the form, role and representation of the Roman ports of Northern and Central Adriatic Italy. During this period, I have also worked as supervisor of the Portus Project, University of Southampton (2013-2018). I joined international survey and excavation projects across Italy, Israel and the United Kingdom.

I published several articles for high profile peer-reviewed journals and chapters for edited volumes, as well as the monograph, titled ‘Visualizing Harbours in the Classical World. Iconography and Representation around the Mediterranean’, for Bloomsbury (2020).