Federica Nicolardi is assistant professor of papyrology at the University of Naples Federico II and a member of the Centro Internazionale per lo Studio dei Papiri Ercolanesi "M. Gigante." Her research primarily focuses on the Herculaneum papyri, with a special emphasis on critical editions and virtual restoration techniques. Nicolardi collaborates with Brent Seales’ project on digital restoration of Herculaneum papyri at the University of Kentucky, supervising the local team imaging all the opened Herculaneum papyri preserved at the National Library of Naples. She is also the lead papyrologist of the Vesuvius Challenge.
