She holds a degree in Classical Studies from the University of Bologna, earned a Specialist degree in Archaeology from the School of Specialization in Archaeology at the University of Bologna, and received her Ph.D. in African Antiquities from the same institution. Formerly a Researcher in Phoenician-Punic Archaeology (L-OR/06) at the Faculty of Cultural Heritage Conservation at the University of Bologna since 2000, she served as an Associate Professor of Phoenician-Punic Archaeology from September 2014 to December 2019. She is currently a Full Professor in the same discipline. From 2000 to 2015, she served as Editor of the “Rivista di Studi Punici,” which later became “Byrsa, arte, cultura e archeologia del Mediterraneo punico.” From 2015 to 2016, she was a member of the Scientific Committee, and since 2016, she has been Editor-in-Chief of the journal Byrsa. Scritti sull’antico Oriente Mediterraneo, a Class A Anvur journal. She is a member of the Scientific Committee for the journals *Folia Phoenicia*, *Gerión* and *Reppal*. From 1988 to the present, she has participated in various excavation campaigns in Italy and abroad, in some of which she has served in coordinating and/or directing roles in the field. In particular, she has conducted and continues to conduct research in Central Sicily and Sardinia, at the Punic-Roman site of Tharros. Between 2009 and 2013, she served as director in charge of the excavation at the northern Phoenician-Punic necropolis for the School of Specialization in Archaeological Heritage at the University of Bologna.
Since 2012, he has served as Scientific Director of the ministerial excavation concession at the Phoenician-Punic and Roman “southern necropolis” of Tharros-Capo San Marco (OR), in the area of the so-called “rustic temple” at Capo San Marco (OR) and the Sa Codriola isthmus, where he has uncovered a Punic artisan quarter that is still being excavated. Since 2018, he has been the Scientific Director of the ministerial excavation concession at the cardo maximus in the Tharros Archaeological Area.
Since 2015, he has been in charge of an Erasmus agreement with the University of Málaga. Since 2018, he has been in charge of Erasmus agreements with the University of Cádiz and the University of Almería.
She has directed national and international projects such as “Archaeogenetic Study of the Data from the Necropolises of Tharros to Reconstruct the Dynamics of Island Settlement in Phoenician and Punic Sardinia” (in collaboration with BIGEA, University of Bologna; University of Cagliari; University of Copenhagen; Harvard Medical School, Boston); “Sacra Tharrhica,” an architectural-conservation and historical-religious study of the religious buildings of Punic-Roman Tharros (in collaboration with DiSCI, University of Bologna; University of Cagliari; Cooperativa Penisola del Sinis).
Since 2019, she has directed the Public Archaeology and Social Transmission Laboratory (PAST Lab) at the DBC.
rom November 2021 to August 2023, she served as the Rector’s delegate for interdisciplinarity and was a member of the Vice Rector for Research’s team. She directed the Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of Bologna.
She is currently the Director of the Department of Cultural Heritage.
