Rosarosa Manca is a Research Fellow at the Earth Sciences Department of the University of Florence, Italy, where she graduated in Heritage Science summa cum laude and completed a Ph.D. in Earth Sciences in 2021. Afterwards, she worked for the European project DiSSCo-Prepare and for the Institute of Heritage Sciences of the CNR. Her academic path has taken place in an interdisciplinary setting, studying the applications of analytical techniques to the study of cultural heritage. Her research is focused on the study of geomaterials, and specifically of pigments, ceramics, and jewellery in museum collections, collaborating with various national and international museums and research institutions. She is a board member of the National Association of the Experts of Diagnostics, Sciences and Technologies Applied to Cultural Heritage (ANEDbc) and a member of the Italian Association of Archaeometry (AIAr), the Italian Society of Mineralogy and Petrology (SIMP), and the International Council of Museums (ICOM).