Arturo Zara holds a PhD in History, Criticism and Conservation of Cultural Heritage and he is Teaching Assistant from the University of Padua. His primary research goals are directed towards Roman archaeology of architecture, espe-cially about production, commerce and economics related to quarrying and distribution of the ancient building materi-als. Since 2006, he has been involved in excavations and researches at the archaeological site of Nora (Pula, CA); his bachelor, master and specialisation thesis concern Nora and the Roman Sardinia, as well as various published works in books and journals, about stratigraphic, topographical, historical and epigraphic topics. Since 2012, he provides editorial coodination of the journal Quaderni Norensi. Since 2016, first supported by a research grant at the Department of Cultural Heritage, then as postdoctoral fellow at the Interdepartmental Center for Livian Studies (Univer-sity of Padua), he has worked for the development of a website and of virtual reality apps for the enhancement of the archaeological sites of Nora and Patavium. Since 2018, he holds a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Padua Museums Centre and he is engaged in studying and cataloguing the heritage of the Museum of Archaeological Sciences and Art.

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