Davide Bianchi
Davide Bianchi
- Postdoctoral Fellow
- RG »Religious Studies«
- +43 1 51581 4151
- Davide.Bianchi(at)oeaw.ac.at
- Dominikanerbastei 16 | 1010 Vienna
Biographical sketch
BA and MA degrees (with Distinction) in Classical Archaeology, as well as studies in Ancient History, Classical Studies, Latin and Ancient Greek, from the University of Milan; 2012–2013 studies in Christian Archaeology at the Pontificia Universitas Antonianum (Studium Biblicum Franciscanum), Jerusalem; 2017 PhD from the University of Milan with a focus on Christian and Byzantine Archaeology; 2023 Italian Habilitation in Archaeology. 2017–2023 University Assistant (postdoc) at the Institute for Classical Archaeology, University of Vienna; 2023–2024 Visiting Lecturer at the University of Pécs (Hungary); since 2025 lectureships at the University of Vienna and, from 2026, at the University of Salzburg. Since 2023 postdoctoral research associate at the ÖAI and Principal Investigator of the project »Caskets of Late Antiquity – CLA«. 2026 Visiting Professor at the University of Regensburg.
Research Projects
Research interests
- Late Antique, Christian and Early Byzantine Archaeology
- Visual and material culture of early Christianity in the Danube provinces and the Near East
- Relics veneration and burial practices in sacred spaces
- Monasticism in the Holy Land
- Religious and cultural interactions in the late antique Mediterranean