Gianluca Miniaci is currently Associate Professor of Egyptology at the University of Pisa, Honorary Researcher at the Institute of Archaeology in London and Chercheur Associé at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris. After receiving his doctorate in Egyptology from the University of Pisa, he continued his academic training obtaining two Marie Curie (Individual Fellowship) research grants in London and Paris. Here he had the opportunity to work in some of the most important centers with Egyptologist collections, the Petrie Museum, the British Museum and the Louvre Museum. He was a lecturer in Egyptian archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology of University College London and the University of Salerno. Since 2013 he has been excavation director, together with Richard Bussmann and Aly el-Bakhry, at the site of Zawyet Sultan in Middle Egypt (near Minya) and since 2010 deputy director of the archaeological mission in Dra Abu el-Naga (Luxor). In 2015 he founded an international scientific series called "Middle Kingdom Studies", Golden House Pubblication, of which he is also the director. He is editor-in-chief for the Journal of Egyptian History, Brill, and deputy director for the Journal “Egitto e Vicino Oriente”, Pisa University Press. He is editor of numerous series among which the Element series “Ancient Egypt in Context”, Cambridge University Press, co-edited with Anna Stevens and Juan Carlos Moreno Garcia; Aegyptologica Pisana, Distinguished Studies in Egyptology, Brepols, co-edited with Maria Carmela Betrò; Multidisciplinary Approach to Ancient Societies, Oxbow, co-edited with Juan Carlos Moreno Garcia and Kitab – Egyptology in Focus, Nicanor Books. He is Principal Investigator of two research projects of significant national interest financed by the Ministry of University and Research, project PRIN 2017 “PROCESS – “Pharaonic Rescission: Objects as Crucibles of ancient Egyptian Societies” and PRIN 2022 PNRR “𝐏𝐈𝐏𝐄 – 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐈𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐄𝐠𝐲𝐩𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐍𝐮𝐛𝐢𝐚 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 “𝐚𝐮𝐫𝐚” 𝐨𝐟 𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐲 𝐟𝐢𝐠𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬”. He is Unit coordinator for the PRIN 2020 Project "Godscape: Modeling Second Millennium BCE Polytheisms in the Eastern Mediterranean", directed by Prof. Nicola Laneri, University of Catania. He is also directing the project "Queen Ahhotep Treasure and its Context: The long Road to the Egyptian Museum of Cairo, c. 1550 B.C.- 1863 C.E." in collaboration with the Egyptian Museum of Cairo, aimed at the study and realization of a new display for the burial equipment of the Egyptian Queen Ahhotep.
