Claudia Colini is Junior Professor in Archaeometry at the Institute for Archaeology and Cultural History of the Ancient Mediterranean, and Head of the Mobile Lab of the Cluster of Excellence “Understanding Written Artefacts”, University of Hamburg, Germany. She has a background in archaeometry and book conservation and is specialised in Islamic manuscripts and their materials.
In 2018 she completed her doctorate in Archaeometry at the CSMC, University of Hamburg, Germany, and subsequently worked at the BAM (Federal Institute for Material Research and Testing) in Berlin. Her current research projects focus on the coexistence of different writing supports, inks and colours in the early centuries of Islamic Egypt. She is also interested in the division of labour in ancient workshops, and the use of colours in different crafts from the same context, for instance in funerary assemblages in Ancient Egypt and in architectural and decorative elements from Asia Minor.
Profile at the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC).