Education and academic qualifications
31/08/2015 to 31/08/2016: Postdoc in Medieval Art History; University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Faculty of Letters.
Research project: “Wall mosaic decoration in the Justinianic phases of Hagia Sophia, Constantinople”.
01/10/2013 to 30/09/2014: Postdoc in Medieval Art History; University of Urbino “Carlo Bo”, Dipartimento di Scienze della Comunicazione e Discipline Umanistiche.
Research project: “Regional schools in the Middle-Byzantine architecture of Northern Greece (8th-12th centuries)”.
2008-2012: Ph.D. in Medieval Art History; University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Faculty of Letters.
Thesis submitted: “La decorazione musiva parietale aniconica delle chiese della Santa Sofia e della Santa Irene a Costantinopoli” [The aniconic wall mosaic decoration of the churches of St. Sophia and St. Eirene at Constantinople].
01/10/2007 to 01/01/2008: Post-doctoral grant in Early Byzantine Archaeology; Hellenic Ministry of Culture.
Research project about the Early Byzantine Monuments in Amphipolis (Eastern Macedonia). Supervisor: prof. Georgios Gounaris (Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece).
15/05/2006 to 02/03/2007: Post-doctoral grant in Early Byzantine Archaeology; Scuola Archeologica Italiana di Atene [Italian Archaeological School at Athens, Greece], Clelia Laviosa Memorial Scholarship
Research subject: “Early Byzantine fortification in Macedonia. Geography of the militarization and its impact on the territories (4th-6th centuries).”
2001-2004: Ph.D. in Late Antique Archaeology; University of Naples “L’Orientale”, Faculty of Letters.
Thesis submitted: “La decorazione musiva della basilica della Panagia Acheiropoietos a Tessalonica” [The mosaic decoration of the Acheiropoietos Basilica in Thessaloniki].
1993-1999: B.A. in Byzantine Art History; University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Faculty of Letters.
Thesis submitted: “La decorazione musiva della basilica della Theotokos a Tessalonica” [The mosaic decoration of the Theotokos Basilica in Thessaloniki].
Teaching activities
4-10 December 2016: Visiting Professor at Masaryk University, Brno. 20-hours class on the theme: "Early Byzantine Architecture in Greece and the Balkans".
1-7 November 2015: Visiting Professor at Masaryk University, Brno. 20-hours class on the theme: “Iconoclasm: The struggle for images in Byzantium”.
Academic Year 2013-2014 (2nd semester): Università degli Studi di Bologna-Ravenna – Faculty of Conservazione dei Beni Culturali - Scuola di Lettere e Beni Culturali: 60+30-hours course of Byzantine Art History (L-ART/01): Compendium of Byzantine Art History for the bachelor’s degree.
Academic Year 2012-2013 (2nd semester): Università degli Studi di Bologna-Ravenna – Faculty of Conservazione dei Beni Culturali - Scuola di Lettere e Beni Culturali: 60+30-hours course of Byzantine Art History (L-ART/01): Compendium of Byzantine Art History for the bachelor’s degree.
Academic Year 2010-2011 (2nd semester): Università degli Studi di Urbino Carlo Bo: 36-hours class of Byzantine Art History (L-ART/01). Course subject: “Byzantine architecture in the city of Kastorià and in Northern Greece (9th-11th century)”.
25 October 2010 to January 2011: University of Rome “La Sapienza” – Faculty of Letters, 36 hours-course of Byzantine and Medieval Archaeology. Course subject: “Byzantine architecture in the Greek mainland from the 9th to the 11th century”.
December 2005 to January 2006: University of Rome “La Sapienza” – Faculty of Architecture “L. Quaroni”, lectures on the subject “The development of Early Byzantine architecture”.
October 2005: University of Naples “L’Orientale”: lectures on Byzantine Art History (for Islamic Art History students) on the subject “Byzantium and the Arabs (4th-6th century A.D)”.
Research activities
July 2014 to September 2015: University of Naples “L’Orientale”, Member of the Italian Organizing Committee of the 15th ICTA Congress of Turkish Art, held at Naples (University of Naples “L’Orientale”, Department of Asia, Africa and Mediterranean Studies), 16th-18th September 2015.
2012: University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Faculty of Letters. Member (as PhD candidate) of the Project (Progetto di Ricerca Universitario) “Architecture and decoration of the imperial palaces between Rome and Byzantium”.
2011: University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Faculty of Letters. Member (as PhD candidate) of the Project (Progetto di Ricerca Universitario) “Imperial residences between Rome and Byzantium: Architecture and sculptural decoration”.
2009: University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Faculty of Letters. Member (as PhD student) of the Project (Progetto di Ateneo Federato) “Early Byzantine sculpture at Constantinople: Production and exportation”.
2008-2012 University of Bologna/Ravenna and University of Rome “La Sapienza”. Member (as PhD student) of the Project PRIN “The Byzantine Sculpture of Constantinople (4th to the 14th centuries): the complex of Hagia Sophia/Ayasofya Müzesi at Istanbul”.
2008: University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Faculty of Letters. Member (as PhD student) of the Project (Progetto di Ricerca di Facoltà) “Early Byzantine sculpture at Constantinople: Production and exportation”.
Other academic activities, research projects, grants
Member of the Center for Early Medieval Studies. West Byzantium Islam (Brno) [Centrum raně středověkých studií, Veveří 470/28, 602 00 Brno].