Tommaso Ismaelli is Senior Researcher at the Institute of Cultural Heritage Sciences, in Florence.

Classical archaeologist, specialized in archeology and architecture of the Greco-Roman world. His research interests are aimed at public construction in the eastern Mediterranean and ancient Italy, through paths that go from surveying to the digital reconstruction of monuments. Insights concern the socio-economic dynamics of construction sites, the artistic culture and the technological knowledge of the social actors of construction. With innovative and multidisciplinary approaches, his research also concerns the archaeometry of building materials, the culture of architectural restoration in the ancient world, ritual practices and religious phenomena from Asia Minor to Sicily. He directs research on the architecture of republican and imperial Rome with the Basilica Iulia Project at the Roman Forum (since 2015) in collaboration with the Archaeological Park of the Colosseum and Sapienza University of Rome, and on Hellenism in southern Italy, with research on the Athenaion of Casto (Lecce, since 2009), in collaboration with the University of Salento and the SABAP Lecce-Brindisi Superintendency. Much of his research is aimed at the Hellenistic, imperial and late ancient architecture of Turkey, with research in Hierapolis of Phrygia (as part of the Italian Archaeological Mission) aimed at studying the main monuments of the city, and, more recently in Teos (in collaboration with Ankara University) for the reconstruction of the Temple of Dionysus. Since 2018, in Tripolis ad Maeandum (in collaboration with the University of Pamukkale – Denizli) he has coordinated the knowledge, study and anastylosis project of the Monumental Nymphaeum, with MAECI recognition.

He is a contract professor of Archeology of the Roman Provinces at the University of Florence (SAGAS Department) and of Archeology of Magna Graecia at the School of Specialization in Archaeological Heritage of the same University, he taught Classical Archeology at the ICR School of Higher Education ( Matera), is a member of the teaching board of the PASAP Doctorate - Archaeological, historical, architectural and landscape heritage of the University of Bari and of the Doctorate in Conservation of Architectural Heritage of the Polytechnic of Milan. He is the author of various monographs, editor of miscellaneous volumes and co-director of the journal “Asia Minor-An International Journal of Archeology in Turkey” (ANVUR-A).