- Name: Giovanna Valenzano
- Date of Birth: 12 Dec. 1961
- Nationality: IT
ORCID: 0000-0002-0834-7557
Education
- 1991: PhD History of Art; Ca’ Foscari University, Venice,
- 1985: MA PhD; University of Padua, Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia
Current Positions
- 2000 – → Full Professor of History of Medieval Art, University of Padua (henceforth cited as UNIPD), Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali (hencefort cited as dBC)
Previous Positions
- Nov. 1998 – Nov 2000: Associate Professor, Università degli Studi di Udine, Dipartimento di Storia e Tutela dei Beni culturali
- Nov. 1993 – Nov.1998: Researcher, Università degli Studi di Udine, Dipartimento di Storia e Tutela dei Beni culturali

Fellowships and Awards (selection)
- 1992-1993. Post-doctoral Research Fellowship, Unipd
- 2011. Invited Visiting Professor (with Fellowship), Nagoya University, Japan.
- 2010. Invited Visiting Professor (with a Fellowship awarded from The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science). Research project on wooden Medieval sculpture, with a focus on matters related to the restoration and the display of these artworks. In addition to participating in the research project, I gave papers at the Sophia University of Tokyo, and at the Universities of Nagasaky and of Hokkaido.

Supervision of Post-Doctoral Fellows (limited to Marie-Curie and other competitive funding programs)
- 2018 – 2020. Zuleika Murat, STARS Starting Grant, Competitive funding program supported by UNIPD. 2-year inter- and multidisciplinary research project, entitled Identity, Liturgy and Art in the Patriarchate of Aquileia, c. 560-c. 1420.
- 2016 – 2017. Mercedes Perez Vidal, Marie Curie-PISCOPIA Pisc14VTQD, project on Art and Liturgy of Domenican nuns in Veneto trough their liturgical books during the Late Middle Ages and the Modern era.

Memberships of Scientific Societies and Committees
- 2015 –2021 : Member of the Scientific Committee involved in the preparation of the dossier to candidate Padua for the UNESCO World Heritage List ( Inscribed on the World Heritage List with the name Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles in 2021.
- 2008-: Member of the Accademia Galileiana di Scienze Lettere e Arti, Padua.
-2005-:Member for Associazione degli storici dell’arte italiana CUNSTA

Reviewing Activities
- 2017-: “Quaderni del Polo Museale del Veneto”
- 2016-: Member of the Editorial Board of the International Peer-reviewed Journal “Arte Medievale”.
- 2009-: Member of the Editorial Board of the International Peer-reviewed Journal “Hortus Artium Medievalium”;
- 2003-: Member of the Editorial Board of the International Peer-reviewed Journal “Saggi e Memorie di Storia dell’arte. Fondazione Giorgio Cini. Istituto di Storia dell’arte”.

Direction of / Participation in Research Projects (selection)
Direction
-2022-: P.I. Medieval Churches: Building Site Practices in a Comparative Perspective PRIN 2022
- 2017-2019: P.I- Il castello carrarese di Padova: spazi e funzioni di un monumento da restituire. Sid 2017
- 2011-13: PI of the project on Development of the platform iTunes U, CMS to a dynamic generation, Fondazione Cariparo.
- 2007 - 2013: Member of the research team involved in the project Cradles of European Culture, European Project CEC;

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