Andrea Arrighetti, Ph.D. in Medieval Archaeology, is a researcher at the University of Siena and a contract professor in Post-Classical Archaeology at the University of Pavia. He is also a correspondent étranger at the Unité Mixte de Recherche AOROC of the École Normale Supérieure - Université PSL in Paris where he previously worked as a researcher following the award of a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship.