Davide Bianchi
Dr.
Davide Bianchi
Dr.
- 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 from the University of Milan; studies in Christian Archaeology at the Pontificia Universitas Antonianum (Studium Biblicum Franciscanum) Jerusalem; 2017 PhD with a focus on Christian Archaeology from the University of Milan; 2023 Italian Habilitation in Archaeology. 2017–23 University Assistant (post doc) at the Institute for Classical Archaeology, University of Vienna; since 2023 Visiting Lecturer at the University of Pécs (Hungary); since 2025 lectureships at the University of Vienna. Since 2023 postdoctoral research associate at the ÖAI and Principal Investigator of the project »Caskets of Late Antiquity - CLA«.
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