Carlo De Domenico is a Senior Researcher in Classical Archaeology at the Department of Historical Sciences and Cultural Heritage of the University of Siena.
He obtained the National Scientific Qualification as Associate Professor in 2022.
He was trained at the University of Siena and the Universität zu Köln and was Regulare Member of the Italian Archaeological School at Athens (IASA) during the 2015/16 biennium. He earned his PhD in Ancient Sciences and Archaeology from the University of Pisa in 2020 and was Research Fellow and Adjunct Professor of Ancient Numismatics at the University of Milan until 2024.
Since 2018, he has served as Scientific Assistant to the Director for Communication and Public Relations at the Italian Archaeological School at Athens (IASA) and has been a member of the Editorial Committee for IASA publications. In 2023, he became the coordinator of the Monographs and editor of the Lateres Signati Graeci series.
He has participated in excavations and archaeological research in Italy (Castel di Iudica-CT, Centuripe-EN, Strongoli Petelia-KR, and Vignale Riotorto-LI), Greece (Hephaestia, Lemnos), Egypt (Dionysias, Qasr Qarun, Fayyum), and Morocco (Lixus, Larache).
Since 2018, he has co-directed, alongside Emanuele Papi, the excavations of the Italian Archaeological School at Athens (IASA) Mission in the Southeastern Quarter of Hephaestia, on the island of Lemnos (Greece), in collaboration with the Ephorate of Antiquities of Lesbos.
Since 2021, he has been a member of the Italo-Egyptian Archaeological Mission in Aswan (EIMAWA) of the University of Milan, directed by Patrizia Piacentini.
Since 2022, he has coordinated the Italo-Greek Underwater Archaeological Mission on the island of Lemnos, in collaboration with the Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities, the National Superintendency for Underwater Cultural Heritage, the Central Institute for Restoration, and the Italian Archaeological School at Athens, under the direction of Stavroula Vrachionidou and Barbara Davidde Petriaggi.
His primary research interests include the economy of serial production through the study of stamps on opus doliare in mainland Greece; the archaeology and topography of Athens and Attica, Corinth and Sparta, and the island of Lemnos; Archaic-period sculpture from the Cyclades; Archaic-period necropolises of eastern Sicily; Byzantine ecclesiastical architecture on the island of Lemnos; and the history of Italian archaeology in Greece.
He is the author of two monographs on brick stamps in Greece (Lateres Signati Graeci I and II.1) and more than thirty scientific articles.