Irene Barbiera is associate professor in demography at the Department of Statistical Sciences.
She works on demography and history of the ancient and medieval world, studied through the methods of palaeodemographic analysis and the interdisciplinary use of written, osteological, bioarchaeological and epigraphic sources. Her main research topics concern:

- Migration dynamics, with a focus on methodological and historiographical aspects related to the use of written and archaeological sources to study mobility in the past.
- The transformations of mortality regimes and living standards in the past (from the Roman age to the modern age) through demographic and paleodemographic analysis.
- Sex-ratio and gender roles in the ancient and medieval world in relation to marriage patterns and family structures, investigated on the basis of different sources and methods.

She has written: Memorie sepolte. Tombe e identità nell’alto Medioevo (secoli V-VIII). Rome, Carocci, 2012 and Changing Lands in Changing Memories. Migration and identity during the Lombard Invasions, Florence, All'Insegna del Giglio 2005. Otto von Hessen Prize 2005.

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