Denise Bezzina teaches Medieval history at the University of Genoa. Before joining the Department of Antiquities, Philosophy and History in July 2023, she held a postdoctoral position at the University of Padua within the ERC Project Micoll - Migrating commercial law and language. Rethinking lex mercatoria (11th-17th century) [P.I. Stefania Gialdroni]. She has previously (2019-2021) been Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the CNRS - Centre Roland Mousnier (Sorbonne Université, Paris) with the project: GenALMA – Kinship, alliance and urban space: the Genoese alberghi in the late middle ages (12th-15th centuries). Her research focuses on socio-economic developments in the late middle ages, with particular reference to urban contexts, gender history and the changes in family structures. She is the author of Artigiani a Genova nei secoli XII-XIII, Firenze University Press – Reti Medievali (2015), Da famiglia a duplice albergo. I de Nigro a Genova (metà secolo XII – inizio XV), FedOA (2025) and editor of the monographic issue: Beyond their dowries. Women and wealth in medieval and early modern north-central Italy (Mélanges de l’École française de Rome. Moyen âge, 130/1, 2018).

Daniele D’Agostino is associate professor at the Department of Computer Science, Bioengineering, Robotics and Systems Engineering at the University of Genova. His research activities concern the design of science gateways in different research fields, and the development of efficient and parallel software for e-Science. He co-organized the 22th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed, and Network-Based Processing, several special issues on ISI journals and co-authored more than 120 scientific papers, published in journals, collective volumes and conference proceedings.

Rosa Canosa obtained a PhD in Historical Studies from the University of Turin in 2012 and has held postdoctoral posts at the University of Turin (2012-2013), the Université Lumière Lyon2 – Laboratoire CIHAM (2013-2014) and the University of San Marino (2013-2016). She specialises in southern Italian history from the mid-eleventh to the mid-thirteenth centuries, focusing especially on socially and politically constructed identities as well as on continuity and change in mainland south Italy during and after the Norman conquest. Aside from research, she also has accumulated a sound experience in film and documentary production within the cultural and creative sector. She is the author of Etnogenesi normanne e identità variabili. Il retroterra culturale dei Normanni d’Italia fra Scandinavia e Normandia, Silvio Zamorani editore (2009).

Silvia Carraro joined PatriFem in February 2025. She holds a Ph.D. in Medieval History from the University of Milan (2012) and a Diploma from the Scuola di Archivistica, Paleografia e Diplomatica which she obtained from the Archivio di Stato of Venice (2013). Dr. Carraro has obtained postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Verona (2016–2019) and Padua (2023–2025) and was visiting postdoctoral fellow at the University of St. Andrews (2023). Since 2021, she has also been teaching Medieval History at Università eCampus. Her research interests lie in the fields of gender studies, religious history, and the long-term history of disability, with special attention to the relationship between institutions and microhistory. Within PatriFem she will focus on the management of goods by both religious and lay women in northeastern Italy.

Edward Loss holds a Ph.D in Medieval History from the University of Bologna (2019). Between 2019-2021 he held a fellowship at the Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Storici, he has been Jean-François Male Fellow at I Tatti - The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies (2021-2022), and then held a posdoctoral position at the Deutsches Historisches Institut in Rom (DHI-ROM. 2022) and the American Academy in Rome (Franco Zeffirelli Fellow in Italian Medieval Studies, 2023). Before joining PatriFem, he held a postdoctoral position within the project MemoBo and PRIN ON - Objects in network. The social life of things in the fifteenth century between notarial sources and semantic web (Università di Bologna, P.I. Tommaso Duranti, 2022-2024) and has more recently been Kratter Visiting Professor of European History at Stanford University. He is the author of Officium Spiarum. Spionaggio e gestione delle informazioni a Bologna (secoli XIII e XIV), Viella (2020), and co-editor of Oltre la carità. Donatori, istituzioni e comunità fra medioevo ed età contemporanea, il Mulino (2021).

Elena Maccioni obtained her PhD at the University of Cagliari (2017) after a long stay at the Milá i Fontanals Institute (CSIC, Barcelona). She has since been awarded several scholarships and research grants financed by the University of Cagliari and other Italian and foreign institutions (such as the Germanic Historical Institute in Rome). Since her postgraduate years, her research interests have generally focused on the relations between power and economy, with the aim to frame historical phenomena within complex legal, diplomatic and social dynamics. She has therefore privileged the study of legal institutions such as reprisals, and mercantile courts as loci where economy, politics, diplomacy and justice constantly intersected. Her PhD dissertation has been published as: Il Consolato del mare di Barcellona: tribunale e corporazione di mercanti (1394-1462), Viella-IRCVM (2019) and she is also the author of I tribunali mercantili nei comuni italiani: giustizia, politica, economia (secoli XII-XV), Viella (2024).

Luca Ughetti obtained his PhD in 2022 from the University of Florence, the University of Siena, and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris, with a dissertation entitled Retorica e Mercatura: La formazione del linguaggio economico nella predicazione dell’Osservanza francescana. His research focuses on the history of economic thought, and on religious and economic history between the 13th and 16th centuries. He held a post doctoral fellowship at SISMEL (Società internazionale per lo studio del medioevo latino) and a research fellowship at the University of Siena. He has also worked on several Digital Humanities and database development projects, which form an integral part of his academic profile.

Verena Weller studied in Paris, at Paris-Sorbonne IV, in Umeå, Sweden, and in Mannheim, Germany. In her doctoral thesis, which she defended in April 2024, she focused on the role of women in the premodern credit sector of Montpellier. The oldest preserved notarial registers from the 13th century served as the basis for her research and a dataset “FEM” (Les Femmes dans l´économie de Montpellier médiévale). Before joining PatriFem she obtained a postdoctoral position at the Chair of Medieval History at the University of Mannheim and received funding for two projects: Packaging before Plastics. Inspirations from History and Female Economy – Gender and Inventories in the Middle Ages. Within PatriFem she works on cities in southern France, such as Marseille and Toulouse, as well as in the German-speaking area, for example, Vienna.

Lucrezia Boiani obtained a Master’s degree in Historical Sciences (LM-84) from the University of Genoa in 2024 with a thesis on the cartularies attributed to the Genoese notary Lanfranco (1202-1226). In March 2025 she has enrolled as PhD candidate within the Doctoral school in History, Art History and Archaeology (https://starch.dottorato.unige.it/) at the same institution. Her research project within PatriFem focuses on Female Wealth and Property Management in Bologna between Law and Practice (late 13th – mid-15th centuries) and will explore, in addition to legal sources, the still untapped Memoriali Bolognesi, a staggeringly rich documentary collection in many ways comparable to the well-known Genoese notarial registers.