Angelo Colonna
Egyptology
Researcher (RTDA)
Angelo Colonna is researcher (RTDA) in Egyptology at the University of Pisa. He earned his PhD at Sapienza University of Rome, and refined his knowledge of the ancient Egyptian language at the Pontifical Biblical Institute.
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Anacleto D'Agostino
Archaeology of the Ancient Near East
Associate Professor
Anacleto D’Agostino is Associate Professor of Archaeology and Art History of the Ancient Near East at the University of Pisa. He has participated in excavations and surveys in Syria, Turkey and Iraq since 1998 and currently is director of the Uşaklı Read more...
Maria Piera Candotti
Indology
Associate Professor
Maria Piera Candotti studied Classical Humanities at the University of Milan and then perfected her Sanskrit studies by completing a PHD at the University of Lausanne. She has undertaken several study and research missions to India, Read more...
Chiara Barbati
Iranian Studies
Associate Professor
Chiara Barbati received her doctoral degree in Iranian Studies from Sapienza University of Rome in 2009, after spending two years at the Turfan Studies research group at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
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Giovanni Boschian
Environmental Archaeology
Associate Professor
Giovanni Boschian studied Geology at the University of Trieste, pursuing a lifelong interest for Archaeology. He is full professor of Anthropology at the Department of Biology at the University of Pisa, where he teaches Anthropology, Geoarchaeology and Human Ecology. Read more...
Jesper Eidem
History of the Ancient Near East
Associate Professor
Jesper Eidem is since 2018 Associate Professor of Ancient Near Eastern History at the University of Pisa. 2009-2017 he was General Director of the Netherlands Institute for the Near East (Leiden) and the Netherlands Institute in Turkey (Istanbul), and Read more...
Gianluca Miniaci
Egyptology
Associate Professor
Gianluca Miniaci is currently Associate Professor of Egyptology at the University of Pisa, Honorary Researcher at the Institute of Archeology in London and Chercheur Associé at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris. Read more...
Susanne Töpfer
Egyptology
Curator, responsible for the Papyrus Collection, Museo Egizio -Turin
Susanne Töpfer has been the curator responsible for the papyrus collection in the Museo Egizio since 2017. Graduating from Leipzig University in 2007, she subsequently obtained a PhD in Egyptology at Heidelberg University in 2013. Before joining the Read more...
Chiara Ombretta Tommasi
History of religions and early Christianity
Associate Professor
Chiara Ombretta Tommasi, former pupil of the Scuola Normale Superiore and PhD in Greek and Latin Philology, is currently associate professor of the History of Religions, qualified as full professor in Italy and France. A member of the French LEM,
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Salvatore Vitale
Aegean Archaeology
Senior Researcher (RTDb)
Salvatore Vitale is an Assistant Professor in Aegean Archaeology (RTDb, Civiltà Egee). He completed his MA in Classical Literature and PhD in Classical Archaeology at the University of Pisa in 2001 and 2007. After his PhD, Salvatore Vitale held post-doctoral research fellowships at the Universities of Calabria and Cincinnati, as well as a fellowship (Borsa di Perfezionamento) at the Italian Archaeological School at Athens. Read more...
Giovanni Mazzini
Semitic studies
Associate Professor
Giovanni Mazzini is associate professor of Semitic philology. His main interests focus on the Semitic languages of Syria / Levant and the Semitic languages of Arabia. He has been studying the Ugaritic documents with special attention to the linguistic connection with Central Semitic and the cultural relationship with Anatolia, Mesopotamia and the Levant during the late Bronze Age.Read more...
Sara Pizzimenti
Archaeology of the Ancient Near East
Associate Professor
Sara Pizzimenti is an Associate Professor of Archaeology of the ancient Near East. She graduated in Near Eastern Archaeology (MA) at the Sapienza University of Rome, where she also discussed her PhD thesis in 2011 and worked as Read more...
Elena Tiribilli
Egyptology
Senior Researcher (RTDb)
Elena Tiribilli is Research Fellow (RTDA) in Egyptology at the University of Pisa. After graduating in Archaeology at the University of Pisa, she obtained a P.h.D in Egyptology at the University of Turin. Then, from 2017 to 2019 obtained a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellowship at the University of Durham (UK) and from 2019 to 2022 a Humboldt at the University of Cologne (Germany). Read more...
Silvia Zago
Ancient Egyptian Language and Text
Visiting Professor
Silvia Zago is Lecturer in Egyptology in the Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology of the University of Liverpool. She obtained her PhD in 2019 from the University of Toronto, where she also taught ancient Egyptian Read more...
Past Teachers
Marilina Betrò
Egyptology
Promoter and Past Director
Marilina Betrò was born in Torre del Greco (Napoli) and studied Classical Humanities at the University of Pisa. She has been Professor of Egyptology in this University since 2006, teaching Egyptology, Egyptian Language and Philology, Demotic,
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Pier Giorgio Borbone
Syriac/Comparative Oriental Codicology
Full Professor
PhD in Jewish Studies (Biblical Philology). At present Full Professor of Semitic languages at the University of Pisa. His research and publications cover various aspects of the history, language, and culture of the Syriac Churches Read More...
Matteo Vigo
Hittitology
Visiting Professor
Matteo Vigo is specialized in Hittitology. He was trained in Classics at the University of Pavia, He received a Ph.D. scholarship at the same university. He completed his Ph.D. research in Germany at the Universities of Tübingen and Konstanz in the Read more...
Christian Greco
Egyptology
Director Museo Egizio, Turin
Wolfram Grajetzki
Egyptian Archaeology
Visiting Professor
Dr Wolfram Grajetzki is a Honorary Senior Research Fellow at University College London. He studied Egyptology, Prehistory and Classical archaeology in Berlin with his PhD on the highest state officials in the Middle Kingdom (1998). He worked on
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