Dr. Lia Costiner

Biography

Lisandra (Lia) Costiner is an Assistant Professor at Utrecht University specializing in History of Art, particularly focusing on late-medieval and early-modern visual culture through digital methodologies. Her research is situated at the intersection of visual material culture, heritage studies, and digital technologies. With a combined background in arts and sciences, she pursued her undergraduate studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University with a focus on Visual Studies. Lia trained in History of Art, obtaining her MSt and PhD from the University of Oxford. Over the years, she has held post-doctoral fellowships, including at Villa Tatti, Harvard Center for Renaissance Studies in Florence, Italy, and laboratories at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland. From 2018 to 2021, she served as a Junior Research Fellow at Merton College, University of Oxford, and in 2020-2021, as a Stipendiary Lecturer in History of Art at St. Peter's College and Worcester College, University of Oxford. Lia co-launched and leads the Digital ArtLab, which uses cutting-edge digital technologies to study artistic and cultural heritage. Her recent projects include a computational study of Italian Renaissance paintings, supported by the Netherlands eScience Center, and an innovative approach to ship design during the Age of Sail, backed by an NWO Open Competition XS grant.

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