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Michela De Bernardin

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
Post Doc
Cultural Heritage Technologies
Research center
About

Dedicated and passionate researcher with a strong international background and an interdisciplinary approach. 
Experienced in different fields from Ancient History, Graeco-Roman Religion, and Classical Archaeology, to Heritage Legislation and Cultural Heritage Studies.

PhD. in Ancient History and Classical Archaeology, bestowed by the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa and the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität of Heidelberg (2017).

Specialised in Cultural Heritage Protection and Preservation with the one-year postgraduate Course "Prevention and Prosecution of Crimes Against Cultural Heritage" (Centro Studi Criminologici, Viterbo-Roma, 2018) and a two-year postgraduate Course "Experts in the Evaluation and Protection of Cultural Heritage" (Università di Roma Tre, Roma, 2022).

Since 2019, focused on the issues of the illicit trafficking of cultural goods and the pollution of the Art Market with looted or unprovenanced artefacts. 

Co-founder and Secretary of the Association "Art Crime Project-APS" (https://www.artcrimeproject.org/).

Currently, Postdoc Research Fellow at the Centre for Cultural Heritage Technology-IIT and Scientific Project Manager of Horizon EU Project RITHMS (G.A. 101073932).