Dr. Manuela Ritondale

Manuela Ritondale studied underwater archaeology and the history of antiquity. She completed a double PhD in Analysis and Management of Cultural Heritage at the IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca, and in Mediterranean Archaeology at the University of Groningen. During her doctoral research, she was awarded the Catharine van Tussenbroek Fund to carry out research at the CLabB (Complexity Lab Barcelona) at the University of Barcelona.

She held a brief position at the Van Gogh Museum and a five-month postdoctoral fellowship at the Glasgow School of Art before returning to Groningen with a postdoctoral position in Digital Heritage: Inclusivity, Innovation, and Curation. In 2025, she was selected as a Jantina Tammes School of Digital Society, Technology and AI scholar. She co-founded and now co-coordinates the Dutch chapter of the Association of Critical Heritage Studies, where she contributes in particular to debates on critical digital heritage. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Classical Archaeology at the IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca, and a postdoctoral researcher within the EU ERC Consolidator Grant project ‘MarDepend’ at the University of Trier.