Chiara Cecalupo is CONEX-Plus-Marie Curie Fellow at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. She received her PhD in Museology and History of Early Christian Archaeology at the Pontificio Istituto di Archeologia Cristiana in Rome. As a researcher, she collaborated with several universities and museums in Italy, Malta, Spain and other states. Her main research focus is on the rediscovery of early-Christian catacombs in the Mediterranean basin. She has a very strong record of publication in history of archaeology, antiquarian studies and reception of antiquities from the 16th to the 19th century.