PIACENTINI PATRIZIA

Patrizia Piacentini has been a Full Professor of Egyptology and Egyptian Archaeology since 2005 (having served as an Associate Professor since 1993) at the University of Milan, where she is also the scientific director of the Egyptological Library and Archives she founded. She is a corresponding member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei and the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, a member of the Accademia Ambrosiana Classis Africana, and a member of the Advisory Committee of the Shanghai Archaeology Forum, Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. In 2022, she won the Gaston Maspero Lifetime Achievement Award from the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres in Paris. In 2019, she was a “Gale Visiting Fellow” at the Australian Centre for Egyptology, Macquarie University, Sydney.
She is director of the Egyptian-Italian Mission at West Aswan (EIMAWA), which excavates and studies a large necropolis spanning nearly a thousand years of history.
She serves on the scientific and executive committees of numerous Egyptological associations and foundations, and was the Italian representative of the International Association of Egyptologists (2015–2023).
Author of approximately 300 publications, including monographs and scientific articles, she has organized Egyptology-themed exhibitions in various countries around the world and numerous conferences. She is the founder and editor of the journal EDAL-Egyptian and Egyptological Documents Archives Libraries (Milan) and serves on the scientific or editorial boards of series and journals, including Aegyptus (Milan) and BIFAO-Bulletin de l'Institut français d'archéologie orientale.