I am a classical archaeologist specialising in Roman sculpture and currently a postdoctoral researcher within the Locally Crafted Empires (LoCiS) project, led by Rubina Raja and funded by the Carlsberg Foundation.

I studied Classics and Archaeology at the Università degli Studi di Milano (BA, 2013) and the Università di Pisa (MA, 2016), and received a PhD in cotutorship from the Università degli Studi di Milano and the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg in 2021.

My doctoral work focused on small-scale ideal sculpture in the Hellenistic and Roman periods, addressing questions of scale, typology, and the transmission of classical models in reduced formats. This work was subsequently developed in a monograph published in 2023 and in several scholarly contributions. Following my doctoral studies, I held postdoctoral positions at the Università degli Studi di Milano, working on the sculptural decoration of Hadrian’s Villa at Tivoli, and later at the Scuola Archeologica Italiana in Athens (SAIA), addressing imperial portraiture in Attica during the post-Hadrianic age.

Within the LoCiS project, I investigate Roman portraiture from the southern Levant, broadly corresponding to the Roman provinces of Judaea/Syria Palaestina and Arabia.