Carlotta Capurro is a historian of art and culture at the Department of History and Art History. 

In 2021, she was awarded a two-year postdoctoral position in digital art history in the Art DATIS project. Between 2021 and 2023, she was an associate researcher at the Netherlands Institute for Art History (RKD). 

She has a PhD in Cultural History and Heritage Studies. Her thesis investigated the impact of the digital turn on European heritage institutions. Her work was part of the Marie Sklodowska-Curie ITN Action CHEurope - Critical Heritage Studies and the Future of Europe.

In 2012, Carlotta received her MA cum laude in Art History at Genoa University, with a dissertation on the artistic and economic relations between Genoa and Flanders in Early Modern times. She has broad experience in the cultural heritage sector, having extensively collaborated with several EU-funded projects on the adoption of digital technologies by heritage institutions. She has also published on the potential of 3D visualisations and digital restoration in cultural heritage communication.