Davide Bianchi

is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Classical Archaeology at the University of Vienna

Davide Bianchi was born in Italy in 1986 and studied Classical and Christian Archaeology in Milan and Jerusalem. After his Master’s degree, he worked as an archaeologist on the excavation of the Memorial of Moses on Mount Nebo, and at the Terra Sancta Museum in Jerusalem where he actively collaborated on preparing the permanent exhibition on Byzantine monasticism. Since 2017, after his doctorate, he has been Universitätsassistent (Assistant Professor) at the Institute of Classical Archaeology at the University of Vienna. Research interests: Archaeology of Late Antiquity and Early Christianity of the Near East; Religious and Cultural interactions between Rome and Jerusalem in the Byzantine period; Monasticism in the Holy Land; Relics, Epigraphy and Burial Practices in Sacred Spaces.