Summary
Chiara Zuanni is a Full Professor and digital humanities scholar with eight years of focused experience in digital museology, cultural heritage digitisation, and data-driven museum practice. Her work spans practical digitisation projects, virtual museums, and applications of data science in heritage, and she has led or co-led multiple EU- and nationally-funded projects including H2020 ReInHerit and pandemic-era contemporary collecting studies. With a PhD in Museology from the University of Manchester and roots in classics and archaeology, she combines theoretical inquiry about museums’ public epistemic roles with hands-on expertise in collections, visitor studies, and digital engagement. Active in European cultural policy circles, she serves on the CEDCHE expert group and steers national networks like Digital Art History Austria, bringing research, policy, and institutional collaboration into conversation. Notably, she bridges archaeological and museological traditions with modern data practices, making her work both historically informed and technologically current.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) at The University of Manchester
University of Bologna
Habilitation, Habilitation at Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz
Italian, English, French, German