After graduating from the University of Salento (Italy) with a thesis on the socio-economic role of imperial estates in Roman Egypt, Serena Causo worked as a research assistant at the Papyrological Institute in Leiden, collaborating on the compilation of the Berichtigungsliste. She was subsequently awarded a one-year fellowship at the University of Basel, where she contributed to the editing and publication of the institute's papyrus collection. She completed a doctorate in cotutelle between Ghent University and the École Pratique des Hautes Études, with a project on the materiality of administrative documents from Oxyrhynchos in Roman and late Roman times. Her work examines the technology of writing on papyrus and aims to re-evaluate these documents as cultural and social objects. She is temporarily employed as a papyrology lecturer at Leiden University.
Serena Causo is the recipient of the Anna Caroppo grant from the Fondation du Collège de France 2024.