Andrea Stella studied at the University of Padua where, since January 2020, is a research fellow in Numismatics. He worked as postdoctoral researcher at the University of Udine, where he received his PhD in 2017, and at the University of Trieste.
Since 2009 he is in charge of the study and edition of the coin finds coming from the Roman site of Aquileia, collaborating with the Universities of Padua and Verona. He recently recorded and published 10.000 specimens kept in the local National Archaeological Museum, where he currently serves as scientific advisor for the new public exhibition of the numismatic collection.
In the framework of the project Ritrovamenti monetali di età romana nel Veneto, he published the entire numismatic collection of the Museo Nazionale Atestino of Este (Padua). Between 2009 and 2017, he collaborated with the University of Padua to record and publish the coin finds from the excavations on the “Roman Temple” of Nora (Sardinia).
From 2017, he cooperates with the project Coin Hoards of The Roman Empire of the Ashmolean Museum and Oxford Roman Economy Project in order to collect data concerning coin hoards from Italy and Lybia.
His main fields of research include monetary circulation and production in the north east of Italy and in the Roman province of Sardinia et Corsica, monetary offerings in Roman graves and the relationship between coins and the archaeological context.

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