Conservator-restorer and art historian (PhD 2011, Università Vanvitelli), Angela Cerasuolo is an associate professor at the University of Siena and a member of the Doctoral board in Art History (University of Siena-University for Foreigners of Siena). She is scientific head of the AURUM advanced training project for an interdisciplinary study on the works of the Pinacoteca Nazionale di Siena, in partnership with the Pinacoteca, Opificio delle Pietre Dure (OPD) and Institute of Heritage Sciences (CNR-ISPC), funded by a grant from Regione Toscana (FSE+ 2021/2027). In 2025, she organized the international conference “Intorno all'oggetto” (Around the Object), Siena, May 22-23, dedicated to the contribution made to art history by restoration and technical investigation, understood as an integral part of historical research.
A former senior official at the Ministry of Culture and head of the Conservation Department at the Capodimonte Museum in Naples, she has directed major restoration projects, managed the Conservation Archive, and coordinated several projects and agreements with national and international institutions (CRNS-Sorbonne University in Paris, Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, Prado in Madrid, National Gallery London, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam). In 2022, she promoted the establishment of a joint diagnostic laboratory at the Capodimonte museum for the interdisciplinary study of works of art with the DiLBeC of Università della Campania Vanvitelli, the ISPC-CNR, and the Istituto di Fisica Nucleare (INFN). In 2023, she was a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art, Washington.