Ivana Angelini is Associate Professor in Geosciences for Cultural Heritage and Archaeometry at the University of Padua, Italy. She received her MSc in Chemistry from the University of Milan, a II level master in Polymer Science at the Politecnico of Milan and a PhD in Study and Conservation of Archaeological and Architectural Cultural Heritage at the University of Padua. She carried out her researches at the Earth Science Department in Milan (2001-2004) and at the Department of Geosciences in Padua (2006-2014); since 2015 she works at the Cultural Heritage Department.
The scientific activity essentially concerns chemical, isotopic, mineralogical, texture and provenience studies of ancient material, with special interest for the protohistoric and early historical contests. Her archaeometric researches are focused mainly on the study of vitreous materials, metals, slags, amber, bones, ivory and precious stones.
Since 2002, she is author/co-author of 147 publications and she has presented more than 208 works at national and international congresses.