Valentina Gasperini

Valentina Gasperini obtained a PhD in Archaeology from the University of Bologna in 2010. Her PhD thesis focused on the history and archaeology of the Fayum region during the New Kingdom. She was then granted a one-year post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Bologna, during which she spent six months at the University of Liverpool as visiting scholar. In 2012 Gasperini was awarded a Marie Curie Intra European Fellowship which she carried out at the University of Liverpool between 2014...See more

Valentina Gasperini obtained a PhD in Archaeology from the University of Bologna in 2010. Her PhD thesis focused on the history and archaeology of the Fayum region during the New Kingdom. She was then granted a one-year post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Bologna, during which she spent six months at the University of Liverpool as visiting scholar. In 2012 Gasperini was awarded a Marie Curie Intra European Fellowship which she carried out at the University of Liverpool between 2014 and 2016. Her main research interest is focused on New Kingdom Egyptian and imported pottery, as well as on interconnections between Egypt and the Eastern Mediterranean during the Late Bronze Age. Since May 2017 She has been working as Project Curator for the Amara West Ceramics at the Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan, British Museum. See less